New card help please

[bastband]

Hi Guys,
A newbie here.
Just purchased a PC with a GT 220 1Gb card (4 gb ram, Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.5ghz running Vista Home) and I want to upgrade the 220 because I don't think it is fast enough.
Need to know if my cpu will support an AMD 5770 1gb, an AMD 4870 1GB or a Gainward GeForce GTX 260 Golden Sample and which on I should go for.

Thanks

bastband

 

[Amnesia]

1mb card ?

the answer is yes

 

[kylew]

You've just bought a GTS220 and you want something more? How about you try to sort out returning this GTS220 first?

 

[chaparral]

Just purchased a PC with a GT 220 1mb card

What did you do with the other 1023mb your card should have had ????

 

[bastband]

Oops, just a little typo methinks

 

[AMG]

so you just brought a ready built PC with a GT220 1GB?


to be honest anything will be faster imo, you looking to get DX11 early, if so HD5770, if your not bothered, HD4870/GTX260 depending on powersupply, but yet again I just made a error there as the new HD5XXX cards take very little to power than the last gen cards

 

[chaparral]

as the new HD5XXX cards take very little to power than the last gen cards

Unless it a 5870..As it one the must power hungry cards under full load

 

[Owenb]

Your CPU will be fine. It might be a slight bottleneck in a few badly coded single thread, CPU heavy games but nothing to worry about.

Personally I would go for the 5770. Compared to the other two cards it's quieter, uses less power and is Dx11, although it is some 10% slower than a Gtx260. The power issue might be very important if your PSU isn't very powerful.