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Is the HD5770 still a good card?

I run the machine in my sig with a 5770 and it does a fine job. My monitor runs at 1920x1200 which is a pretty high resolution and the 5770 runs all games i throw at it using pretty high settings in game. Its not the latest and greatest in the gpu world but it will do a decent job. As you are on a budget and already have this card i would spend what you have on other parts and keep the 5770.
 
Count_Zero99uk said:
Its not a question of buying the 5770 its currently in this machine, its wether it needs replacing. And concensus seems to be no :)
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You are correct, if you already have the card, there is no real reason to replace it. I've got one in my PC, and it's plays all the games I want no problems... unlike my Audigy 2 ZS sound that sounds like it's a giga-counter in the middle of a nuclear reactor.
 
OP what is your current system's spec? Cause the chances are your won't get better frame rate in games upgrading to i5 while sticking with 5770, except for a few heavily CPU bottleneck games such as WOW or Arma II.
 
Count_Zero99uk said:
Current system is Core2Duo Q6600, 2gig ram, running XP Home.
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Q6600 is Core2Quad, not Core2Duo. If you are sure it is a Q6600 you got (and if it is G0 stepping), it would make more sense to overclock the CPU (assuming your motherboard is fine with it), and spend the money on getting upgrading graphic card instead. A overclocked Q6600 will still keep up with all the current single GPU graphic card. What motherboard you got by the way?

Also, 2GB of ram would still be quite alright for Window XP 32-bit, as it only use around 400-500MB of memory...whereas Windows Vista 32-bit or Windows 7 64-bit would use around 1GB of ram just by getting into Windows.
 
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5770 is a great card for a rig that will be playing games on a budget. when you look at the specs needed to play most games they are really really low. Then if you want to get to medium or high settings the 5770 will probably do it in almost all areas.

The only reason you may need more than a 5770, is if you are a general enthusiast who needs the best of everything, or you are playing on a very big resolution 24" plus.

Or maybe you just want to be able to play crysis on max settings at 120 fps :).

Either way you card is a goodun for now.
 
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