Small upgrade

[Chris B]

I currently have a HIS 3870 which has decent enough specs...

512mb, ddr4, 850 and 1200!

I been looking at a basic dx11 upgrade for around £30, around the 5/6k series, is there any that would b worth while even considering? seen some 1g and 2g varients but with lesser specs!

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=56&subid=1711

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?catid=56&groupid=701&sortby=priceAsc&subid=1985


Money is a bit tight atm and am looking to overhaul my machine at the end of the year, hence the low price.

it plays all my games great, few on lower settings but I aint fussed. it does however crash on the odd accasion, ever since I first bought it, have another bought at the same time which was actually faulty, but dint have a lot of time and never managed to return them!

appreciated.

Chris.

 

[arc@css]

The 5400 / 6400's wouldn't be an upgrade over the 3870. I noticed that there is an Nivida GT620 in the clearance section, though this is a little over budget.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-012-KF&groupid=595&catid=683

Your best bet is to go second hand, and look for something like a very cheap 6600 (preferably the GDDR5 version) / 6700. However, if the 3870 is ok for now, you could just try cleaning it up a bit as I expect the crashing might be linked to high temps?

 

[Chris B]

thought as much lol, damn card! its been overheating since I bought it, along with the other back in 2008 from here! done the usual cleaning and reapplied some arctic paste on the heatsinks too! also, can only use ati as I have an 'MSI K9A2 Platinum AMD 790FX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard' which was all bought together! not being aware that I was limited to only ati cards but I don't mind tbh, I do prefer them, albeit the NVidia boards are coming in quite reasonable! thanks for ur reply.

Chris.

 

[arc@css]

thought as much lol, damn card! its been overheating since I bought it, along with the other back in 2008 from here! done the usual cleaning and reapplied some arctic paste on the heatsinks too! also, can only use ati as I have an 'MSI K9A2 Platinum AMD 790FX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard' which was all bought together! not being aware that I was limited to only ati cards but I don't mind tbh, I do prefer them, albeit the NVidia boards are coming in quite reasonable! thanks for ur reply.

Chris.

You're not able to use an Nvidia card at all on that motherboard?

 

[Chris B]

just thinking there tbh, would it b a case of checking the pcie versions? and if theyre ok should b able to?

 

[arc@css]

just thinking there tbh, would it b a case of checking the pcie versions? and if theyre ok should b able to?

If it has a pci-e slot, which it must do since you're using a pci-e compatible card at presesnt, then I don't see why it won't accept either brand.

I still think you're better off with the second hand market than you are with the card I linked.

 

[synixx]

You could probably get a second hand 5770 for that price. At £30 for a brand new card you wont find anything that outperforms your current card but the 5770 should be a fair deal faster. Maybe up to twice as fast.

 

[arc@css]

Maybe up to twice as fast.

Yup, around twice as fast is correct.

 

[Chris B]

Any recommendations on nvidia card?! If any lol!

 

[Diagro]

the 5770 is best i feel. have a look on the bay

 

[Chris B]

Awesome, thanks for all the help guys!

 

[jimfowler_82]

I have an 5770 for sale in the next week or so XFX 1gb does the job not sure if its allowed to be posted on here or not :S