Is it worth me upgrading my GFX card

[peterigz]

Hello With Crysis and other DX10 games on the horizon, I'm looking to to upgrade my GFX card, but wondering what's best considering the rest of my PC. I don't want to over spend on a 8800GTX if the CPU will bottle neck it too much.

My Specs are an Athlon X2 3800 @ 2650 with 2gig RAM running with resolution 1680 x 1050. Current graphics card is a Radeon X1900. Wouldn't mind getting another year out of it but to be DX10 capable.

Thanks in advance for any insights

 

[ergonomics]

welcome to the forums. a GTX wouldnt be too bottlenecked with that cpu. try to get up to 2.8ghz if possible.

you *could* wait until the new nvidia cards are out

 

[mp260767]

i'd leave it til their actually out, see how you're current card performs and see what other options are available.

 

[ergonomics]

well either way theyre going to be around the ~ £450 mark (im GUESSING) for the top end, so if those are too costly you can get a GTX for a fair bit cheaper by that time.

Id suggest to stick with your current card for about 2-3 more months, and see if the prices of current 8 series goes down.

 

[peterigz]

Thanks for the replies. I guess I could hang on for a bit. Bioshock ran fine with the high settings so hopefully Crysis shouldn't be too bad (will it actually run in DX9?) and COD 4 when it comes out.

I tried looking for info about new cards coming out but couldn't find any info, but if it's only 2 or 3 months I agree It'd probably make sense to hang on.