Do i need to look at upgrading?

paradisiac · 5 Mar 2012 at 18:27

stulid said:
Seen the 7850/7870 reviews? look interesting pricing is about £230-£270 respectively.

from another thread :

paradisiac said:
I have recently got my GTX460 swapped out for a GTX560 (the supplier had no GTX460s in stock ) but I got a call from them saying that they cannot replicate my fault, so are considering if they deem it acceptable to give my money back or return my GTX460. I explained that they had already sent me my GTX560 and I have it in my pc now so do I have to return it, to which she replied 'No, that is yours'. it puzzled me, but I wasn't prepared to argue.

so I have a nice new graphics card, but could also be getting a full or partial refund on my old card.

stulid · 5 Mar 2012 at 18:29

See what you get back then, also is the GTX560 doing ok in the games you play? do you crave higher detail settings?

paradisiac · 5 Mar 2012 at 18:32

stulid said:
See what you get back then, also is the GTX560 doing ok in the games you play? do you crave higher detail settings?

settings wise it seems to handle most things maxed out (forced in NVCPL) as I can only play @ 1366x768 with vsync on (60FPS). but in some things I do get some micro stutter.

stulid · 5 Mar 2012 at 18:37

More GFX power would be good I reckon.

paradisiac · 5 Mar 2012 at 18:38

stulid said:
More GFX power would be good I reckon.

would it be worth it at those res though?

stulid · 5 Mar 2012 at 18:40

The native res of the LG in your sig is 1920X1080, is the TV not full HD then?

paradisiac · 5 Mar 2012 at 18:41

stulid said:
The native res of the LG in your sig is 1920X1080, is the TV not full HD then?

the monitor has gone to another pc

nope it would appear not. worked fine with my AMD cards, but any Nvidia card I stick on it, 1920x1080 is too big to fit on screen

stulid · 5 Mar 2012 at 18:43

paradisiac said:
the monitor has gone to another pc nope it would appear not. worked fine with my AMD cards, but any Nvidia card I stick on it, 1920x1080 is too big to fit on screen

Strange, try asking in the graphics card section, someone ma have an answer, never used a TV with a PC myself so zero experience.

If it did 1080p with a ATI card but not with an Nvidia one, then it must be a driver/TV detection issue maybe.

paradisiac · 5 Mar 2012 at 18:48

stulid said:
Strange, try asking in the graphics card section, someone ma have an answer, never used a TV with a PC myself so zero experience.

i asked when i got my first Nvidia card a few years back, apparently its the way it scales it or something compared to AMDs. its not a problem as the picture looks pretty good, plus it means i don't need such an expensive GFX card.
i considered maybe going to 16GB RAM, going for an SSD again (moved my last one to my HTPC as i didn't really see any gains on the gamer), 3d monitor....but couldn't really see how i would benefit, so thought maybe a motherboard ready for IB, but if i don't require either, then i don't know what to do (there is a possibility our supplier might only give me credit).

stulid · 5 Mar 2012 at 18:51

Mechanical keyboard and a gaming mouse?

paradisiac · 5 Mar 2012 at 18:53

stulid said:
Mechanical keyboard and a gaming mouse?

i have a gigabyte M6900 mouse. im not sure our suppliers have mechanical keyboards, they are more component based.

stulid · 5 Mar 2012 at 18:59

Looks like you have most stuff, keep the money and wait a few years for something worth changing too.

paradisiac · 5 Mar 2012 at 19:00

whilst semi on the subject, im still only on bios 1.6, is it worth upgrading to 1.7?

stulid · 5 Mar 2012 at 19:04

If it aint broke

paradisiac · 5 Mar 2012 at 19:08

that's what it thought.
will wait and see what happens with the GTX460, but looking like motherboard aint the answer