Advice on Graphics Cards

[HiirNoivl]

You're saving money because you won't need to buy another one for years. It's a fairly futureproof card. The 5770 was obsolete two years ago, and it's *discontinued* now. There's a reason for that.

A 5770 will bog down any modern PC. When she'll finally decide to change her other parts, and sooner or later she'll have to if she wants to continue playing on PCs, the 5770 would be a dead weight in it.

On the other hand a card like a 660 will be a good base for any upgrade. Hence, saving money.

Advising anyone to buy a discontinued card is honestly quite nearsighted. It does not save them money on the long run, and the performance they'll get will be sub-par anyway.

And please keep in mind that Yoshi P is planning to scale up the quality of the graphics in the game over time based on a few of his interviews (Hmmmm PS Foooour....?) So plan your PC choices accordingly. o.o/

[Soukyuu]

A 5770 is about the same performance as my 260gtx. I'm getting 3k with nearly max settings at 1080p, 5k on max settings at 720p, so it could work for the op. I do agree with Abriael that the card is way past it's prime. Even if the current system could bottleneck a newer GPU, if you plan to further upgrade your PC in the next years, getting a stronger GPU now is not a mistake. The difference between two generations of a same-class GPU is not big. For example, a 460gtx performs nearly the same on the benchmark as my 260gtx

[SinisterJoint]

eh i run on two cpu's and scored high... my suggestion would be if you update the video card make sure that you read the wattage for the psu i upgraded mine and didn't realize i had to buy a new power supply and it kept shutting the computer down in grid when it rained because of drawing too much power.. also i'd probably recommend if you can upgrading your ram

upgrading his ram wont do any good as he has 7 home premium which maxes out at 4gig

[Soukyuu]

upgrading his ram wont do any good as he has 7 home premium which maxes out at 4gig

Nope, 16GB

[Shura]

Advising anyone to buy a discontinued card is honestly quite nearsighted. It does not save them money on the long run, and the performance they'll get will be sub-par anyway.

The OP specifically said he/she was looking for a "cheap" GPU to run the game decently and if possible he/she would rather not upgrade the PSU. Hence the 6670, both 660 and 5770 require a new PSU. If the OP does decide to change PSU, then there are still better bang for buck options, assuming the OP still wants a cheap solution. Considering the OPs specs and the fact he/she runs at 1024 x 768, a 660 for $210+ is really not the best option.

If OP wants to future proof and is willing to spend extra, then i too would personally be recommending different stuff but to assume were being nearsighted simply because we were trying to meet OPs requirements only shows your own lack of comprehension on the issue.

[Zenaku]

You're saving money because you won't need to buy another one for years. It's a fairly futureproof card. The 5770 was obsolete two years ago, and it's *discontinued* now. There's a reason for that.

A 5770 will bog down any modern PC. When she'll finally decide to change her other parts, and sooner or later she'll have to if she wants to continue playing on PCs, the 5770 would be a dead weight in it.

On the other hand a card like a 660 will be a good base for any upgrade. Hence, saving money.

Advising anyone to buy a discontinued card is honestly quite nearsighted. It does not save them money on the long run, and the performance they'll get will be sub-par anyway.

That make me feel better about me getting a 660 around FFXIV release lol. Which version you talking about tho normal or TI

[Zenaku]

The OP specifically said he/she was looking for a "cheap" GPU to run the game decently and if possible he/she would rather not upgrade the PSU. Hence the 6670, both 660 and 5770 require a new PSU. If the OP does decide to change PSU, then there are still better bang for buck options, assuming the OP still wants a cheap solution. Considering the OPs specs and the fact he/she runs at 1024 x 768, a 660 for $210+ is really not the best option.

If OP wants to future proof and is willing to spend extra, then i too would personally be recommending different stuff but to assume were being nearsighted simply because we were trying to meet OPs requirements only shows your own lack of comprehension on the issue.

What video card would you say is a worth upgrade for around 200$ i have a 450GTS. I was thinking of getting a 660 myself seem to be a good video card for 200ish.

[Abriael]

That make me feel better about me getting a 660 around FFXIV release lol. Which version you talking about tho normal or TI

They're both very good cards. Get the normal if you want to save some money, or the TI if you want to go the extra mile for a bit more juice. Remember that the Ti requires two power connectors instead of one, but that shouldn't be a problem.

Mind you, with a good processor (AMD 965 black edition for instance) and 4 gigs of ram even just the 660 holds the benchmark at over 6000 at maximum settings, so it's just a matter of how much you wanna spend and how futureproof you wanna be.

Ultimately the TI is the best card between the two, but the normal is probably slightly better bang-for-buck.

[carlosx]

Yeah, with no problems! Weird. lol

Also, how can you tell which graphics cards are more powerful? I wish I could do that...

remember 1.0 taking down all grafics runs perfect on my old 9800gtx lol now i have serie 2 SLI 295gtx at 896bits and when i think back on the pass i was using a 128bits card and game run on 1g memory shared on the sistem and now i have 2g memory core and share 4g video memory dedicated runing a core 2 quad 9550 and on 1.0 i was using a dual core on less then 5.4hrz lol also now im using 8gmemory dd3 and back then i was using only 2g memory dd2


soo realy the game specs was not soo high back then on 1.0

and now my score on maximum on the benchamark only give a farly high sooo i ausume the benchmark dont read my SLI sistem

[Zenaku]

They're both very good cards. Get the normal if you want to save some money, or the TI if you want to go the extra mile for a bit more juice. Remember that the Ti requires two power connectors instead of one, but that shouldn't be a problem.

Mind you, with a good processor (AMD 965 black edition for instance) and 4 gigs of ram even just the 660 holds the benchmark at over 6000 at maximum settings, so it's just a matter of how much you wanna spend and how futureproof you wanna be.

Ultimately the TI is the best card between the two, but the normal is probably slightly better bang-for-buck.

Ya i be getting the normal 660 one and then upgrading my CPU to something better i have AMD 925 was thinking of getting 1055t. But it seem the 965 black edition may be better overall.