Replacement for HD5850

[Benbo1000]

Hi, my Sapphire HD5850 started intermittently making a grinding sound a couple of weeks ago. Now its all the time (as loud as a coffee grinder) and seem to be seeing missing textures in some of the games I play, along with flickering triangle shapes... I think it might be time to replace, but its been a long time since I made any changes to my PC so not sure about compatibility
Mobo - gigabyte EX58 UD5
Ram - 6Gb
CPU - Intel I7 920

I play a few MMOs and strategy like civ5 and running win7 64bit
What can I get that will be at least as good as my HD5850 and work with my setup which is 4ish years old

 

[arc@css]

Hello.

What's your max budget?

 

[Benbo1000]

I was hoping to replace relatively cheaply but up to £200 I suppose

 

[arc@css]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-166-PC&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752

Btw, what res do you run and also, what psu do you have?

 

[Benbo1000]

Would this be about the same performance wise?
And the r7/r9 work with my PCI express 2 mobo? Was worried that new gen meant new slot .... Not really kept up with hardware

 

[arc@css]

Yes, that will be fine for 2.0. The worst case scenario will be that you might need to update the bios, that's all.

 

[Doogles]

Depending on the PSU that R9 290 would be best bang for buck, if you don't game that hard and you want something only slightly more powerful than your HD 5850 how about a second hand HD 7950?

 

[Benbo1000]

PSU is a corsair TX 650W

 

[arc@css]

Psu is fine.

 

[Benbo1000]

Cool, tnx
Just noticed on the page u linked that it specifies a 750W PSU... That just overspec... I mean it will b OK with a 650W?

 

[arc@css]

Yeah, they do that to cover themselves. I'm aware of reports where people have powered them with quite a bit less than 650w.

 

[new boy]

How much of an upgrade would you like?

Because you can get cards faster than your 5850 for way way way under the prices of the cards being suggested so far.

 

[Benbo1000]

Well my current card ran all the progs and games I use just fine.. I get 70-90 fps in rift and archeage and until it broke everything else I used worked great, I don't want top of the range bcos the entire system is like 4 years old but something that will run my games would be sufficient...
I've always gone the radeon route since my voodoo 5 blew up, so prefer that generally

 

[Squink]

Would this be about the same performance wise?

The linked card is far far and away faster than your 5850

 

[arc@css]

Here's a near enough comparison of the performance boost you'll see. I don't think your cpu / rest of your system is anything to be concerned about, but if you want to save some cash then a 270 / 280 would still give a very nice boost in fps.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1068?vs=1062

 

[nitram100]

290 pcs

 

[Benbo1000]

Wow, a huge difference, thanks for that.
Perhaps the 270/280 would be more than enough.. Any make really standout from others?..

 

[arc@css]

You won't go wrong with many of them tbh. I'm quite partial to Gigabyte, but there are many others that will more than suffice. Depending on how often you upgrade (which I gather isn't too often), you could base your decision on the length of warranty, like 3 years over 2. I usually upgrade every couple of years, so I always bear that in mind when considering a purchase.