Good time for me to upgrade?

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Well I had a nicely balanced system with no bottlenecks (E6400 @ 2.8ghz, 4870 512GB, 4GB Ram) but I had to go and upgrade my 20" monitor to the 24" HP LP2475w, where the 512mb card isn't really cutting it.

I could struggle on for a bit longer or bite the bullet and go for a whole new system (thinking i5 + 5850 - anything higher just seems like overkill), but I have no idea whether it'll be worth it or not or if there is anything big around the corner.

I play a crapload of games and as I haven't upgraded (much) in years money is not a concern :).

What do you think?

If yes, how much would a decent rig set me back?
 
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Hey, that'd be a nice step up, and theres nothing major due in the immediate future other than NVidias DX11 cards, a grand would get you a quality rig based on those, an example of which is in the thread in my sig/at top of page
 
why not just upgrade to a 5770 card? £120 and should be back up and playing games fine?

Will save you £880...
 
GinG said:
why not just upgrade to a 5770 card? £120 and should be back up and playing games fine?

Will save you £880...
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Oh I hadn't thought of that. I just looked at the 5850s and thought they would be a total waste on my current spec. Do you think my cpu will bottleneck it much?
 
maybe slightly but not overly, but if you want to ensure you need a new cpu or push that one further, once you start down this route you may as well start looking at new system, imo, and given I cant see any major hardware advances for foreseeable future and you have the money its not a bad time to get a nice i5 system, imo
 
A 5770 would be a near negligible upgrade as tests show it to be equal to the 4870 (1024).

Anymore OC headroom on your CPU?

If not then why not get another CPU + GFX (E8XXX + 5850 perhaps?)
 
reiyushin said:
A 5770 would be a near negligible upgrade as tests show it to be equal to the 4870 (1024).

Anymore OC headroom on your CPU?

If not then why not get another CPU + GFX (E8XXX + 5850 perhaps?)
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thats compared to a 1 gig 4870, he's using a half gig which as he rightly pointed out was fine at lower resolutions but now he has bigger monitor the lack of memory will be hampering it, thus a 5770 will be a reasonable step up, though I agree the 5850 (If you can get hold of one) will be much better

And yes your 520W should be fine for a single 5850, but if you went xfire you'd need more
 
You'll prob be fine, Id see how you get on with it, at most you might be losing a few fps, it largely depends on what type of games you play too though, some are more cpu dependant than others, if you have a particular favourite or two it might be worth checking out which category they come into
 
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