Upgrade from 4890 to 5870?

[Nick Phillips]

Hi all,

Presently I have a "Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card"

Is it worth the move up to a 5870 of sorts, or save those pennies for a completely new system in six-twelve months?

Thanks in anticipation

 

[Orcvader]

You have a perfectly good card at the moment. I would keep it. What res do you play on and what's the rest of your system specs?

 

[=VTA=MANFACE]

I had one too. Even though I have a 5970, the 4890 vapor-x was the best card I ever purchased.

5970 is over kill for games. If I knew back then I would never have bought the 5970.

Keep it, it's a cracking card.

 

[PhoenixUK]

Buy 5870 and donate 4890 to me.

 

[opethdisciple]

From the benchmarks I'v seen, crossfired 4890 are a little bit more powerfull than a single 5870.

 

[Sukh]

Oh snap, I have the same card, it runs through current games pretty decently!

 

[Dark_Angel]

Hi all,

Presently I have a "Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card"

Is it worth the move up to a 5870 of sorts, or save those pennies for a completely new system in six-twelve months?

Thanks in anticipation

Save it. The new cards (the 6 series) is being released at some point soonish anyways.

The new Intel CPU / AMD CPU's will be released as well some point in next year... it's better to simply wait if you can.

 

[MrMoses]

keep the 4890

overclock it for a wee bit more poke

 

[mame]

Keep it. It's just not worth spending £320+ for the performance gain that you will get

 

[iTek]

4890 is still a awesome card, certainly would keep it for a little longer.

 

[titaniumx3]

Keep 4890 untill at least the ATI southern islands range of GPUs are released. 4890 to 5870 isn't worth it with the majority of games out right now; if you're lucky, you might get at most about 70% increase in performance, but generally it will be more like only 50% more.

 

[opethdisciple]

Keep 4890 untill at least the ATI southern islands range of GPUs are released. 4890 to 5870 isn't worth it with the majority of games out right now; if you're lucky, you might get at most about 70% increase in performance, but generally it will be more like only 50% more.

Less.

Two 4890 a a little bit more powerfull than a 5870.

Id say 40-50% increase, which is still formidable..... but is it worth it?

 

[Nick Phillips]

Ok thanks people, will wait a little longer then.

My other main bits are an Core 2 Duo E8500 @3.16Ghz and 4 Gig of Memory.

Running XP still, worth a move to Windows 7?

 

[perry081064]

Running XP still, worth a move to Windows 7?

deffo go to windows 7, xp is starting to get very very tired now.

 

[Nick Phillips]

yep i was thinking maybe that and a newer hard drive might speed up things a bit.

Takes some time to load up at present.