So basiclly ive got a budget or around £120 ish. Ive always been an Nvidia man, with the attitude of ATI is bad - i dont know why but thats that. So ive heard some good things recently and i wondered which is best? Been looking at an Nvidia GTS250 or Radeon 5750? I only have an AMD 4200+ 2.2 Dual core so it isnt the best so id rather the graphics do all the rendering rather than my CPU. Thanks guys! I also only play games such as CSS and a new MMORPG (not naming any names!)
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Another What to buy - ATI/NVIDIA
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For CSS and source games, majority of the half decent gaming cards would be capable of running at max out 1680x1050, but for that budget, I would have to agree reflux 5770 would be a very good choice.
For mmorpg on the other hand, they tends to be CPU dependent as much as graphic card (probably even more so).
Unfortunately, for gaming it does work liking playing 1080p videos which you can offload the load from CPU to graphic card instead using hardware acceleration. The data ALWAYS pass through CPU first, and then pass to the GPU for processing the data and rendering the graphic. Think of the CPU and the GPU as two gates in a pipe, and data being the water going through the pipe. CPU would be the first gate the data reach so if your CPU is slow, it will bottleneck the data and making the GPU not being able to use its capability to the max. Imagine the first gate in the pipe is only 70% opened, and even if the 2nd gate is opened to 100%, it is still only having same amount of water passing through it as when it pass through the first gate.
For mmorpg on the other hand, they tends to be CPU dependent as much as graphic card (probably even more so).
Unfortunately, for gaming it does work liking playing 1080p videos which you can offload the load from CPU to graphic card instead using hardware acceleration. The data ALWAYS pass through CPU first, and then pass to the GPU for processing the data and rendering the graphic. Think of the CPU and the GPU as two gates in a pipe, and data being the water going through the pipe. CPU would be the first gate the data reach so if your CPU is slow, it will bottleneck the data and making the GPU not being able to use its capability to the max. Imagine the first gate in the pipe is only 70% opened, and even if the 2nd gate is opened to 100%, it is still only having same amount of water passing through it as when it pass through the first gate.
At the moment Nvidia haven't got a competing card in your price bracket. In fact, they haven't really got any competing cards at all. So yes, the 5770 is probably the best option. They're good cards, cool running and don't use much power. My mate has one and it's enough for most settings on high @ 1920x1200 even in Crysis.
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It definitely will...probably not so much for source games, but for mmorpg and games with high geometry details, the CPU would most likely pulling the graphic card's legs.
Have a read at the following it might give you are better idea:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-gpu-upgrade,1928-10.html
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Haha just kidding, Nvidia has been working on their flagship for ages now, it's supposed to come out on the 26th March.ATI has the upper hand right now, but it's always a big back and forth. In the current generation, ATI is the best choice.
If you want a bit more power but with less features and slightly more volume / power consumption, you could try a HD4890 as well. (Try maybe getting one 2nd hand)