Hey guys any graphics card experts out there

[Marine-RX179]

Marine, he has overclocked it to 3.2GHz. He's just not put it in his spec.

If that's the case, I don't see the point of need to upgrade graphic wise, unless he's upping from 1680 res onto 1920 res. Even my Q6600 overclocked to 3.6GHz is bottlenecking my 5850 in some CPU intensive gaming scenes in games that are fully/well optimised for using Quad-core (i.e. Frame rate drop to around 25fps, and with the GPU usage drop from usual 90~95% down to 65-75%).

If I was in GonZ's position, I'd upgrade in the following orders:
1) 1920 res
2) Graphic card(s)
3) Platform (i.e. moving away from Core2 onto SandyBridge)

 

[Owenb]

i have overclocked it to 3.2 the 570 is like £69 more

Ah, ok. In your opening post you have it down as ~2.4Ghz.

Relative performance of cards.

The 560 does seem to be Nvidia's best card around that price point.

 

[GonZ]

most people seem to recomend the older 480 over the 560 saying its faster is that the case is it a better choice

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-078-GI

 

[silverfoxxxx]

As an extra my £211 570 also came with Lara croft

Bargain and best upgrade for the price.

 

[daveash]

most people seem to recomend the older 480 over the 560 saying its faster is that the case is it a better choice

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-078-GI

It's quite a bit faster but it draws a lot more power, runs a lot hotter and the stock cooler is a lot louder. If you have a decent PSU I'd highly recommend one of the Gigabyte cards (SE or SOC) as the cooler is great, otherwise the 560 is a great card and overclocks brilliantly.

 

[Reality|Bites]

yes m8 it runs at 1660 x 1050 why amd bud

Would you have asked why Nvidia if he recommended the GTX 480 ;p

 

[Selachi]

If I was in GonZ's position, I'd upgrade in the following orders:
1) 1920 res
2) Graphic card(s)
3) Platform (i.e. moving away from Core2 onto SandyBridge)

Great advice, thanks. I'm in exactly the same position as him - same specs mostly, same amount of money looking to upgrade. Have just sold my 22" samsung at 1680x1050 and buying a Dell U2311H for 1920x1080... Graphics card will be the next upgrade after the screen, then the processor/motherboard/RAM

 

[Owenb]

most people seem to recomend the older 480 over the 560 saying its faster is that the case is it a better choice

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-078-GI

It's faster but it was a fairly bad chip. Consumed far too much power, producing way too much heat. If you go down that route make sure your PSU and case cooling are up to the job.