How much performance does the 5870 have left?

[opethdisciple]

As the title says, if I buy a 5870 now, do you think I will have a good 2 years of very good performance?

Or is it, old tech already, and best wait for the 6000 series?

Primarily, for tomorrows DX11 games, will I be enjoying near max settings at 1920x1200 for at least 2 years?

 

[opethdisciple]

Yea, Iv been wating and waiting since September, so I will wait some more!

Its summer now any way, so not much use will get out of it.

I can get a 5870 for £265 however, which is a nice price.

 

[opethdisciple]

5870 is fine for ages, it's still the 3rd best card you can buy period

Straxusii, I too have a qx9650, how does it do interms of keeping up with the 5870?

What did you do to get it to 3.6Ghz?

Im a noob at overclocking. My qx9650 is at stock 3Ghz, do I need to overclock it, for thr 5870, or beyound?

I game at 1920x1200

 

[opethdisciple]

It's absolutely fine, generally the GPU is still the bottleneck as you'd expect.

Getting it to 3.6 is really easy, I expect it will do much more but I like a safe and stable overclock as this is my work pc also.

Just increase the bus speed from 333 to 400mhz et voila, no need for increases in volts or anything else, with pretty much any decent motherboard you pci and pcie buses should be kept at stock frequencies.


As to whether you should overclock it I seriously doubt at 3ghz it is bottlenecking a 5870

This wont affect my ram in any way?

 

[opethdisciple]

One question, I seen on some review sites that a 5870 can achive minimum 30fps at near max settings at 1920x1200 resolution on Crysis warhead.

Is this true?

Because xbit labs, have a review on the 5870 and to quote them "the 5870 gives up at 1680 x 900 resolution with max settings on warhead"!

Cant be?