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8800GTS Vs 5770 ? Much better?

Cashman

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Hi guys...

I currently have a BFG 8800GTS 640mb, would I notice a huge difference in upgrading to the Ati 5770 1gb?

Cheers for the help!
 
i had a asus 4850 in crossfire and went to a 5770 and didnt notice any difference.

the 5770 still plays everything i want it to and its so much quieter and cooler and dosent use hardly any power either.
 
I'm glad you've asked this as I'm considering exactly the same!

I've got a Gainward 8800GTS 640mb and have been thinking about a 5770 upgrade.

I recently bought Fallout 3 and even with my standard clock E8400 at 2.66Ghz I could run the graphics on max everything (albeit on a low res but the monitor is 24" and its OK for me). I only get sporadic slow down and hardly makes it unplayable.

I don't have as much time to game as I'd like so I'm wondering whether to save some cash and just get a quicker CPU.
 
well i went from a 8800gts to a gts250 before getting my 4890 and there was a huge jump there (40fps avg in far cry on medium to 40fps avg on high/ultra high all this with an e5200 @3.0ghz and 2gb of ram :D)

so yeah i'd go for it as a 5770 is much better than a gts250 :)
 
In some cases no, in others around a 25% increase... The 8800 GTS 640MB was a brilliant card - it was a tough one to beat for value and IMO the logical upgrade is the HD5850.
 
EddScott said:
I'm glad you've asked this as I'm considering exactly the same!

I've got a Gainward 8800GTS 640mb and have been thinking about a 5770 upgrade.

I recently bought Fallout 3 and even with my standard clock E8400 at 2.66Ghz I could run the graphics on max everything (albeit on a low res but the monitor is 24" and its OK for me). I only get sporadic slow down and hardly makes it unplayable.

I don't have as much time to game as I'd like so I'm wondering whether to save some cash and just get a quicker CPU.
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This review shows how the 5770 copes with Fallout 3.:)
 
EddScott said:
I don't have as much time to game as I'd like so I'm wondering whether to save some cash and just get a quicker CPU.
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I recently upgraded to Crossfire 3870s and get a solid 60 fps. However my CPU idles most of the time and I have a feeling that it only uses one thread! Whilst playing Fallout 3 it sits at around ~2.6GHz and the task manager never shows a fully loaded core.
 
I'm also part of the 8800 GTS club running 650/1000 clocks for a small boost on stock cooler.

I have a Q9550 @3.4GHz, 4GB Corsair Dominator 8500 and a decent PSU.

I'm also looking at an updated GFX card within a month or so and fancy the 5870. Would that be overkill for my system? I game at 1680x1050 at the moment and probably will for a while.
 
Prob the 5850 is the best choice I would say, within 5-10% of 5870 performance for about £100 less. Unless money is no object in that case I would say wait a month and see what Fermi brings to the table.
 
Might be a silly question but with these new cards they have HDMI - does that mean if I have a bluray drive I can watch Blurays on my TV in HD?

Is the sound TrueHD too?
 
Cashman said:
Hi guys...

I currently have a BFG 8800GTS 640mb, would I notice a huge difference in upgrading to the Ati 5770 1gb?

Cheers for the help!
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It's night and day. I went from an 8800 GTS 320MB (which I'd clocked to about 630/1500MHz), I upgraded to a 4870 1GB (which is very similar in performance to the 5770) and saw over twice the performance in a few games that I tested at the time.

If you look at reviews of the 4870, you'll see it's often about twice as fast as the 3870, often more, such as this review:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/graphics/review/2008/07/04/RV770-ATI-Radeon-HD-4870/p7

And if you look for reviews of the 3870, it's typically about the same speed as the 8800 GTS 640MB, give or take:
http://www.techspot.com/review/76-asus-radeon-hd-3870/page4.html

and again the 5770 is very comparable to the 4870:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-5770-review-test/14

I know that's a bit of a mess of reviews right there, and I apologise, but it's hard to find a direct comparison between a card that came out in 2006 and one that came out in 2009. Regardless, the 5770 should be approximately twice as fast as the 8800 GTS 640MB.
 
Lightnix said:
I know that's a bit of a mess of reviews right there, and I apologise, but it's hard to find a direct comparison between a card that came out in 2006 and one that came out in 2009. Regardless, the 5770 should be approximately twice as fast as the 8800 GTS 640MB.
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The benchies on Toms puts the 5770 at around 50% faster than the 8800GTS and the 5850 at around 90% faster. If you have the ping go for the 5850 IMO - it will give you the cover for the same amount of time as the 8800 has.
 
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