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Upgrade from HD5850?

masterk

masterk

masterk

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Hello all

Tempted to upgrade my 5850 1GB GPU which has been and still is a workhorse. Noticed some lagging in newer games and have had to tweak settings down somewhat.

If I was to upgrade I wouldn't want to spend more than £200, is there anything out there for that sort of money that would yield a decent (40-50%) performance boost in newer games? I only game at 1680x1050. I have an I5-2500K and 16GB RAM. Have had more ATI/AMD cards than Nvidia but not too fussed either way......

Thanks in advance
 
A overclocked 7850 would give you around 40-45% increase performance, whereas an overclocked 7950 would give you around 80-90% improvement comparing to the 5850.

Personally, I would pay the extra and go for the 7950...but I am more of actually waiting for AMD's next gen card that's supposed to be coming at around Oct/BF4 launch time, mostly because I think it's a bit too late to jump on the 7000 series now. With that said. if the 8 free games are tempting enough for you and you don't want to wait for next gen, then you might as well jump onto either the 7850 or 7950 now.
 
Looking at the actual level in the AMD graphics card range,the HD7950 would technically be the modern day HD5850,as it is one but the fastest AMD single GPU card.
 
Defy Belief said:
I'm in this boat, just ordered the IceQ 7950 in with the game deal.

The 5850 is still such a great card, just been playing Bioshock Infinite on it on high and it runs it perfectly. Still intend to keep the 5850 just as a backup.

The 7950 is another league though, you could either keep the games or sell them for some money back.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/512?vs=550
Click to expand...

You may as well sell the 5850 as they are in demand from gpu miners and subsequently fetch a good price relative to their nvidia counterparts.
 
Hi all one small question.

My PSU only has two 6 pin PCIE connectors, will a card that has a 6 pin and an 8 pin function ok or do I need to get an adaptor?

Thanks
 
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