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New Graphics card to replace my old but powerful 5870! is it worth it?

Chrisavz

Chrisavz

Chrisavz

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Hi! I currently have a 1GB HD 5870, which is very powerful yet a bit old and has started to show it's age a bit on more recent games..

I'm looking at upgrading with a budget of £200 but whenever i look and compare the card i currently have to newer card's I don't really see much of an improvement..

Is it worth upgrading or should i wait longer?

Thanks for any advice and help

Chris.
 
Depends on what games you are playing, and at what resolution. What is the full specification of your system?
 
even a 7850 card will eat a 5870,and use less power and run much cooler to boot

something like a r7 270 or an r9 280 would be ideal
 
wazza300 said:
even a 7850 card will eat a 5870,and use less power and run much cooler to boot

something like a r7 270 or an r9 280 would be ideal
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Just looked on the Heaven 4 bench thread and there are 7850s that beat my poor HD 5970 so a 5870 would have no chance lol.:D
 
Kaapstad said:
Just looked on the Heaven 4 bench thread and there are 7850s that beat my poor HD 5970 so a 5870 would have no chance lol.:D
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Tessellation was never a strong point of the 5000 series though so it's a bit of an unfair advantage to the 7850.

I imagine that in non-tessellation limited situations the 5970 would be quite a chunk faster.
 
Apologies, my full specs are as follows:

Intel Core i5 4670K Quad Core Retail CPU (Socket 1150, 3.40GHz, 6MB, Haswell,) - overclocked to 4ghz
XFX ATI HD 5870 1024 GDDR5
G.Skill 8GBXL Main Memory DDR3 8 GB PC1600 CL9
WD 1 TB 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive - Black
MSI Z97 Gaming 3 Intel LGA1150 Z97 ATX Motherboard
Coolermaster Real Power 700w Modular


The resolution is 1920* 1200 on a 24" monitor..

The games i'm playing are metro 2033, metro last night, i'll be getting the new farcry and assassins creed.. struggled with black ops 2 the other night when a lot of action was going on and that was hardly maxed out graphics settings..


Appreciate the Advice, I will look into the card's you have mentioned, o and any links to these graphics comparison sites might help, I will google some more myself also,thanks!
 
+1 for the Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Dual-X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card linked above its under your £200 limit and comes with 3 free games this is also a nice jump in GPU power and performance over what you have.
 
Looking at it now, seems impressive, reviews seem very good think this baby might be the one! I'll do a bit more digging though first thanks a lot!
 
I've noticed the 280 has 11.2 directx support as opposed to the 285 which has 12, is this worth pointing out or not worth a carrott in relation to games at this moment?
 
I have 2x Radeon 5870s in CrossFire and still run great but I'm really getting the temptation to upgrade, looking forward to see what the NVidia 980s will bring...
 
Go with what you know, OcUK have sorted out an excellent RMA package with XFX so you will have no issues.
 
Order Placed
Product Name Price Qty Line Total
XFX Radeon R9 280X DD Black Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R9-280X-TDBD) £158.29 1 £158.29
Order Cost Summary

Sub Total: £158.29
Shipping: £9.00
Total Vat: £33.46
Total inc Vat: £200.75


£200 budget utilized!


:D
 
I've spent thousands on here over the years to be honest, and i'll admit it is something that does eat at me a bit when a lot of other sites do off free shipping but i do like their customer care and RMA procedures in the past whenever I have had issues!

I'll scrape the 75p together out my copper jar :D
 
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