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Getting cold feet on my order

Breach

Breach

Breach

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I have a Club 5770 due to arrive tomorrow, the overclocked one.

Trouble is, i'm wondering if i should have ordered something with a bit more power, such as 5830 or even 5850.

I'm running a [email protected], monitor is 1920*1080.
My PSU is a Corsair 520w (that's another small worry).

I don't require my games to have all sliders to the right, but i like them looking good and moving with an acceptable frame rate.
I could throw more money at this if needed, but i dont want to waste money.

Thanks for any helpfull advice.
 
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Can you crossfire? If so, keep the 5770 and buy another one at some point rather than get cold feet over a 5850. You will get the bonus of good tesselation performance too.

5770 will allow you to game at 1920*1080, but not at max settings with AA and AF all the time. The 5830 is better, not by a massive amount, but the 5850 is the single card solution for comfortable gaming at the highest settings I'd say. All the games will look good with the 5770.
 
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the 5770 is fine for that res,

every game I've played on mine at full is playable except Crysis (albeit with a load of visual mods) and metro 2033
 
Thanks for replies,
sorry for edit, needed to tidy the post up a bit :)

I must admit, i started reading this forum and thought Oh No, i need more power to game at that resolution!
Then i started thinking my psu may need an upgrade.
All of a sudden it was starting to get expensive.

So i was getting into a bit of a dilemma.

Thanks again anyway.
I'll go with what i have, and if it falls short in the future - i'll go for that crossfire thing.
 
The 5770 uses next to no power in comparision to the others - 24W idle, 110W load?

No more in games than a 4850, much less than a 4870/4890. Your PSU will easily handle it.
 
yeah, sorry when i said i thought i needed more power, i meant GPU power :)

I'm happy that i'll be ok PSU-wise with a 5770, but i was worried that if i go for a more powerfull GPU than the 5770, i would need a PSU also.
 
I'm on 1920 * 1080, my 5770 gives me near enough to max settings on all the games I play, I may have to tweak a bit here & there, drop the AA a bit but it looks great in general.
 
In all the games I play (mw2,grid,dirt,nfs) my 9800gt's 512mb ram is always used entirely on 1920*1080 (monitored via gpu-z). Dropping the resolution reduces the memory requirements.

If you have the 1gb version then you will be fine & extra power is not NEEDED (nice, but not required to play the games!).
 
If you got a 512mb card my advise is return under the distance selling regulations and buy a 1gb version.
 
I think you have done the right thing there. It will be a good while before you can't sell the 5770 for ~£70 so you will be in a position to upgrade it next generation without much loss. Also the PSU, faster graphics cards don't really continue to grow in power needs although the new nvidia cards would suggest this. If they did we would all be on 2000w by now. It's only the flagship cards at the time that push the power usage. My x1950pro needed 450w and was quite a big card. Today, even a GT240 is about 1.5x more powerful and will run on a 220w PSU and it half the size, if not less.
 
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yeah, sorry when i said i thought i needed more power, i meant GPU power :)

I'm happy that i'll be ok PSU-wise with a 5770, but i was worried that if i go for a more powerfull GPU than the 5770, i would need a PSU also.
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You could have quite comfortably ran a 5850 with that psu so no worries there

As long as you've got the 1gb version then your card will handle games fine at that res
 
I run my 5770 1GB on 1920x1080, still manages full settings on most games with decent frame rates, you can push the settings down and get an even higher fps if you need. I am going to crossfire when i get some extra cash.
 
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