5770 query....

Tiny Clanger · 26 Jul 2010 at 19:19

Hello there

Well.....following some excellent advice from the good people at OCUK Forums I've recently treated myself to a new ASUS 5770 and a 2nd hand Q6600 and am pleased to bits with the results on my current monitor at 1440 x 900. Playing through Borderlands at the moment which looks lovely with all the bells and whistles on

. All of this is quite an improvement from my 1950XT and E6300 as you can imagine.

However, here's the thing.......my brother wants to sell me his old (not that old - but he is made of money!) 24" Samsung monitor for a very good price. I'm tempted - but not sure how well the 5770 will perform at 1920 x 1080. Does anyone have experience of this that they could share with me?

Cheers,

TC

Orcvader · 26 Jul 2010 at 19:41

Playing on a 1080p with a 5770 at the moment, it holds well enough

Puppetmaster · 26 Jul 2010 at 19:44

I play with a 4870 1gb (Slightly faster than 5770 i think, mines oc'd a bit too) with a C2Q @ 3.7GHz and it plays most games @ 1920 x 1200 on high settings usually with 2 x aa with ok fps ( i dont record it but games seem fluid enough).

If its your brothers, could you not borrow it for a few days to test out?

Tiny Clanger · 26 Jul 2010 at 19:58

Hi - thanks both for the replies

I was wondering whether it was worth selling the 5770 second hand (it's only two weeks old so should get a reasonable price for it) and upgrading to a 5830 tha's on special offer at OCUK - but I'm not sure if it's that much of an upgrade in terms of bang for buck...

I should be able to get it on loan (not sure though - us Clangers are a funny bunch!) and see how it performs.....just wanted to get a bit of "real-life" experience from you good folks

Thanks again

TC

Nymins · 26 Jul 2010 at 20:19

Could add a second 5770 if your motherboard supports Crossfire? Would give you pretty good performance at 1080p.

I use a single 5770 at 1280x1024 and it plays most things with everything on. Bar the obvious Metro 2033 and Crysis though, need to tone the settings down a bit. Everything else seems fine 40-60fps+.

opethdisciple · 27 Jul 2010 at 00:51

Depending on your budget I think you have a few options.

Get another 5770 and crossfire, will supposedly be as good as a 5870, but you will have crossfire issues.

Sell the 5770 and by a 5850... or cheaper option go GTX 460.

But from what Iv read the GTX 460, isnt really aimed at 1920x1080 resolutions.

wilko49 · 27 Jul 2010 at 01:23

I'm running a 5770 (stock clocks) at 1600x1200, most intensive game is AVP, which I am running with everything maxed except AA and one of the DX11 effects. Very smooth, although I haven't pulled up a fps monitor yet.

Based on that, I would expect it would be fine.

Tiny Clanger · 27 Jul 2010 at 07:57

Thanks once again for all the advice everyone

My motherboard won't support crossfire I'm afraid and so twin 5770's isn't an option. A 5850 would be a nice upgrade but I'd have to be paying another £100 at least to get one of those - hence my thought about upgrading to a 5830 which would be a smaller jump - but probably won't be the performance upgrade I need...will it? Presumably, at some point my CPU (Q6600) will start to be a limiting factor as well.

So - looks like (from comments of 5770 owners here) that I'll probably be okay in the short term with the 5770 and then upgrade next year when everything's cheaper

Thanks again

TC

Tiny Clanger · 1 Aug 2010 at 18:55

This is probably a daft question, but....

I now have my nice shiny 24" monitor and have tried running the same bit of the same game (Borderlands) with exactly the same bells and whistles on at 1440 x 900 on my old monitor and at 1920 x 1080 on my new monitor. According to the game, the FPS in both instances is near enough the same (~40FPS).

Now, to my (admittedly) simple mind, this shouldn't be the case - after all at the higher res there's that many more pixcels to manage....isn't there? :confused:

Tealc · 1 Aug 2010 at 19:17

Perhaps your CPU is limiting you here. I've not played Borderland so don't know how heavy it is and whether it's single or multiple core oriented. Are you overclocked on your Q6600?

Tiny Clanger · 1 Aug 2010 at 19:27

Not yet - 6600 is still running at stock....

Very happy if there's no discernable performance drop moving up from 1920 x 1080 (as this new monitor is beautiful!) - just wanted to understand why

Marine-RX179 · 1 Aug 2010 at 19:30

Tiny Clanger said:
Not yet - 6600 is still running at stock....

Very happy if there's no discernable performance drop moving up from 1920 x 1080 (as this new monitor is beautiful!) - just wanted to understand why

Q6600 at stock speed will bottleneck any graphic card at 8800GT/4770 or above, if the game is not optimised to use more than two cores. Definitely try to have a go at overclocking to at least 3.0GHz...it shouldn't be too difficult.

Tiny Clanger · 1 Aug 2010 at 19:35

I will indeed - just didn't want to be playing with too many variables when comparing the monitors... ;-)

Devrij · 1 Aug 2010 at 21:52

Running a single 5770 @1920x1080 here with good results. They overclock quite well too, you should be able to get yours up to 960/1300 without much trouble (possibly at stock volts too). Get a decent OC on that Q6600 and you should get some good results on cpu limited games. Enjoy!

Tiny Clanger · 2 Aug 2010 at 08:06

Hadn't thought to OC the 5770

Out of interest - which is the best way to do this - using the ASUS software (it's an ASUS EAH5770) or via the Catalyst ATI Overdrive?

Cheers

TC

Marine-RX179 · 2 Aug 2010 at 08:58

Use MSI Afterburner. Make sure you overclock your Q6600 before your 5770, or you won't see any performance boost.

Devrij · 2 Aug 2010 at 11:19

Tiny Clanger said:
Hadn't thought to OC the 5770

Out of interest - which is the best way to do this - using the ASUS software (it's an ASUS EAH5770) or via the Catalyst ATI Overdrive?

Cheers

TC

I use MSI, but only because it allows me to go beyond 960 core and adjust voltage as well. I'd use CCC tbh if you can get it far enough on stock volts it's just less hassle than having to open afterburner every time you boot, or at the least to allow it UAC access every time it loads up. Just push the slider up a few notches and run furmark to test it. If you see "snow" or get a BSOD you know you need to back it off a bit or up the volts a smidgen.

Tiny Clanger · 2 Aug 2010 at 14:25

My only thought on using the Asus tweaking via the Smart Doctor software that came with the card is that I'm sure I read somewhere that Asus would still honour the cards warrenty even if you burnt it out through overclocking as long as it was done via their software....

....although - if the card is SNAFU'd - how would they know how you'd done it...

krooton · 2 Aug 2010 at 15:23

Shame you can't corssfire, I went from a 4870 1GB to a single 5770 1GB, which took a slight hit on performance, but still playable at 1080p, then bunged in another 5770 and now can pretty much max out anything I throw at it.

Tiny Clanger · 2 Aug 2010 at 18:43

Something to remember for my next upgrade perhaps...