Graphics Card upgrade

[Marshall2000]

im presently running a Sapphire Ultimate X1950 pro, was a pretty sweet when i bought it (a long time ago) and tbh it does me well for playing CSS and HL2 etc, i played the Cysis demo the other day and wasnt too bad, but could have been better, im only running a 19" 1440x900 screen, and cant really afford to buy a bigger screen and GPU right now.

so is it worth me

getting a bigger screen, then following it with a 4870 / 4890 later (id like to stick with ATI)

getting a 4850 now (should play crysis at my res an my monitor)

trying to get hold of another x1950 and xfiring them, and then saving for a monitor and gpu upgrade together

PC spec in signature

let me know chaps

Marshall

 

[antran]

new dx11 cards is coming out soon from ati, I would wait if I were you. Even if you dont get the new dx11 the current ati cards might a bit cheaper.

 

[mame]

Don't bother cross-firing an old card like that. Dual-card setups arn't perfect now but they were much worse then. 2x x1950's would need a good PSU and cause a lot of heat in your case. Also saying you want to stick with ATI or NVIDIA is daft. A lot of people who say this usually had a problem with a PC in the past or know some who did and decided it was the company who designed the graphics card that was at fault. Google any graphics card you like for driver problems and you could spend all week reading about how bad a card it is etc.

A 4850 with that screen would be fast. At that resolution it would last a long time. Even at 1680x1050 it's still a good card. Even at 1920x1200 it would still be a faster setup than what you have now.