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Good upgrade?

boyle

boyle

boyle

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From a Ati Radeon HD4890 to a Asus GeForce GTX 460 1024MB DirectCU GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card, as on sale here for £107.
It would be mainly for gaming. Thanks:)
 
I'm sticking with my 4890 until the AMD 7*** or nvidia 6** - not many games push it to the max, at least none that I play. Have you though about thought about xfire 4890s? they can be had on the bay for £40-60
 
Thanks again,I havent thought about xfire my case looks a bit crowded as it is.
AMD 7*** or nvidia 6** when will they appear,and will the fact Im on WIN XP ,hamper any upgrade.
 
boyle said:
Thanks again,I havent thought about xfire my case looks a bit crowded as it is.
AMD 7*** or nvidia 6** when will they appear,and will the fact Im on WIN XP ,hamper any upgrade.
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You'll be missing out on DirtectX 10 & 11 if that's a concern to you.

I think there are ways of getting DirectX 10 into XP (unofficialy) but as far as I'm aware DirectX 11 is a no no.

If you're on 32 bit XP you're also going to be limited by the amount of RAM you can use as it has only 4GB of addressable space.

If you get a new GPU with lots of VRAM I believe that's going to come out of the 4GB. So a new GPU with, say, 2GB of VRAM will only leave you with 2GB of addressable space for everything else.
 
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