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Im troubled - GFX Help

Haydz

Haydz

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Hey guys, I could do with abit of help, I've been playing about with my new build, which i bought from yourselves at OcUK, everythings been fine so far, but im looking to upgrade my graphics card from a nVidia 9400GT, because i have been told this card is utter garbage, and myself, i haven't been paying attention much as i am not a hardcore PC Gamer, i do not play any games which require the best graphics.

However i am looking to start some PC gaming, I have heard theres a certain x-factor which you dont get from console gaming. Therefore i require a new Card, As i said im not interested in the GPU Intensive games, such as Crysis and such. I would love to play abit of GRID and theres probably more games which i'd fancy.

I know this card is far from great as it is the most stripped down card i have ever seen, no casing and no fan, also it injurs my windows experience index, @ 4.7 for Graphics and 5.7 for Gaming Graphics, whereas my CPU is 7.3 and memory is 7.5.

My budget is square on, £200, I have been looking at the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 2048MB GDDR5 - £185.99

Which is currently on offer :)

Any card has to be strictly ATi only please, I have a strong dislike for nVidia, they will not get any of my money, due to their "way of going about things", my current card was kindly donated to me :D

Please can you tell me what im getting myself into, and what i would get out of it. I am also told 4870x2 Cards are good.

Edit: Forgot to mention, im on 1440x900, my only other display is 32", which is far too big, hurts my eyes :D
 
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I'm also on a 1400 x 900 resolution, and looking for a new graphics card... I'm currently on a Radeon X1950 Pro which is old!

I've been out of this scene for too long to give you any real advice... but I've been reading around today, and from what I've seen it may be worth waiting a few days to see what the price of the new ATI 58xx cards will be, if you have £200 to spend!

But, apparently something cheaper would do just fine for gaming with our 1400 x 900 resolutions, I am not sure though... trying to find out. =P

Edit: I just found out some more info regarding the ATI HD5870... the 1GB version will be $299- which is £180. That falls in with your £200 budget, and it's a DX11 card, I say go for that! Release date is 23rd of september.

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15434/1/
 
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wait for the 5850 i'd say is the best option, or atleast wait for them to come out and push prices down on the old cards and pick up a cheap 4870 or something. Until there's actually some DX11 games out at that res is not going to stress out the current gen cards at DX10 so no need to rush to 58x0 series, maybe even wait for nvidia's offerings.
 
+1 For the 5850, by the sound of things it's going to be faster than any single GPU card out there at the moment, and not being the headline card, it should have a good price.

With your HX750 PSU, you are going to be able to run any card you like.
 
One thing I got to say is your thoughts on the 4890 injuring your windows experience index is misplaced; that thing will hit 5.9 on all the aspects of graphics processing. I can assure you as I have a 4890 placed in my system currently.

Either way give it a few weeks for the 58xx launch and watch what happens, might get a bargain.
 
Ritsugamesh said:
One thing I got to say is your thoughts on the 4890 injuring your windows experience index is misplaced; that thing will hit 5.9 on all the aspects of graphics processing. I can assure you as I have a 4890 placed in my system currently.

Either way give it a few weeks for the 58xx launch and watch what happens, might get a bargain.
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I didn't say the 4890 does, i meant the 9400GT im using does :D
 
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