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Radeon HD 5770

DWorrall

DWorrall

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Okay, so ive been thinking on upgrading my GeForce 9400GT for a while now.

Ive been looking for something that can run most games on full detail, such as crysis. Ive read reviews of the Radeon 5770 and msot of them say it will run any game at full.

Firstly, is this true?

Secondly, is there a better card for a £100 +-20 budget? :/

(Ive made a thread like this in the past, sorry i dont make fast decisions :/)

PC Specs: http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1616541
 
5770 is IMHO a good choice. What resolution will you be trying to run Crysis as that may determine the difference between Very High settings and High/Medium being playable?
 
Confused Stu said:
5770 is IMHO a good choice. What resolution will you be trying to run Crysis as that may determine the difference between Very High settings and High/Medium being playable?
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1440x900

Im about to order... i only have £100 you see :/

The one im looking at is XFX radeon HD 5770 1gb
 
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It's a slightly higher res than you're running, but not by much - have a look here for a view of how each card should run in Crysis/Crysis Warhead:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU/87

If you can stretch the extra £10 for the GTX460 I would recommend it too. If not, the 5770 will be fine but the extra ten pounds would be worth it in this game definitely.
 
i had 1, then 2 HD5770 in my old i7 machine, and didnt really have any issues with games, but i must admit they didnt wow me. i did get lag on some games and some wouldnt go to max settings (i was playing at a higher res) without hitting game play performance loads. maybe worth looking for a second hand card, for £100 could probs find something better, not saying its a bad card, just seemed a bit of a letdown until xfired.
 
at that resolution an extra £10 for a GTX460 768mb is better shout - The short time I owned a GTX460 i'd say it was the best card i've owned in years and I kind of regretted upping to the GTX470 but I needed that extra few MB memory for the resolutions I was using. (Should have just switched to a GTX460 1GB in hindsight.)

GTX460=cool, quiet, hugely overclockable with ease to near enough match a 470 stock performance
GTX470=expensive, hot, power hungry, LOUD. But it does have much better Tessellation performance and with an aftermarket cooler the heat/noise issues can be solved.

Point is - GTX460 is unbelievably good value and top performance per £.
 
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