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Upgrade from 5850 to a 480

Adster3000 said:
Sorry, I'm sticking by the fact that it will feel like a downgrade if I purchase a monitor with this card.
I play BC2 a lot and it runs ALMOST perfectly. A new monitor will hinder that even further. I run it with 2xAA with HBAO off, if anyone's wondering.
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Its not fact though.
 
easyrider said:
Its not fact though.
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Fine. In my opinion.

If I have to lower settings to increase fps back to what they were, that's a downgrade to me. Some games may be more significant that others in terms of quality, sure. But still.

If I had a side by side comparison though, I may think differently and agree with you.
 
I'm speechless

I have never known anyone to care so much about how a game looks and yet not care about having the correct aspect ratio and resolution :p
 
op you are truly bizzare. Purchasing a new monitor asap would clearly be the biggest upgrade you could do at the moment. A 480 with your monitor is incredibly pointless.

I have a 5850 and a 1080p monitor, and can run most games on max settings. Iirc that would include bfbc2.

I find it impossible to believe a 5850 wont run battlefield3 at 60fps+ on max setting with your res.
 
So you want to upgrade both, but not got the budget to do both together ?

Think i would get the 480 first, £160 + a years warranty = bargain.

Although as said before, a 5850 should be ok at 1920 x 1080.
 
Having run a 5850 on 28" 1920x1200 monitor with a 3.6ghz quad i can vouch it handles pretty much any game just fine, moving too a GTX480 form your 5850 on such a small monitor is a side grade, you gain nothing in the way of performance and remian and a crappy aspect ratio, your 5850 will already drive your games at well over 60fps so introducing a 1080p monitor to the set up isnt going to suddenly mash you below the holy 60fps your so desperate not to loose.

Games will look a lot sharper, images will be in the correct aspect ratio and be soo much more imersive with much more vibrant colours. the jump to widescreen monitors 24"+ for me is on par with adding an ssd, once its there you wonder how you ever got on without out it.. buy the monitor, you have a week to decide if its been a waste and send it back, we all know you wont but its a safty net for you at least!


do you not wonder that in this whole thread, the only person saying that the gpu would offer more than a new monitor is the only person without said monitor?
 
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LOL... 5850 for that resolution is way over kill... An ati 4870 at that resolution maxed all games when I had that resolution and at silly fast frame rates. You are really wasting your money get a new screen with 1920x1200 resolution and then get the 480 or better wait for the next gen cards because the 5850 is more then good enough. The 5850 will max out 99% of games at 1920x1200. Rest of your specs mate would help us to help you more too. Did you think maybe your PSU may not handle a 480 ?
 
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The rest of his spec is on page 1, his PC is more than adequate, the only lackluster part left is his monitor.
 
If there's anything stopping him from running games not running at 60fps at 720p it would not be the 5850, but the overclocked Phenom II X4, if the games don't use all 4 cores. He's probably gonna complain not getting 60fps at Crysis or something, which the CPU being a greater limitation with the game only using 2 cores than the 5850 being not powerful enough at that res.
 
OP has no common sense.

Adster, you have two options:

a) buy a modern monitor that will display the same image as your current monitor is displaying but with the extra 33% on the sides and 60% more pixels (plus 20% higher pixel density) that will result in a vastly superior image to anything your current monitor is able to display
b) buy the GTX 480 on offer and gain virtually nothing as you're CPU limited at this resolution. By the time you get a new monitor, your graphics card won't be much of a deal and you'll need to upgrade again.
 
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OP, buy a 480. The price they are right now is crazy and they won't last long. Remember the Gigabyte SOC and SEs? They hit ~£200, then within a few weeks they were back to £300+.

Everyone else makes a good point though, a new monitor is required to take advantage of the card. Just buy one at a later date.
 
A new monitor is on the list next. By the sound of everyone's opinion, I've been missing out. Guess it's time to try and earn some money.

However stupid you guys think I am, I've ordered the 480. The price is too good and my theoretical performance increase is enough to justify it for me.

Appreciate everyone's input.

If anybody has got a 21.5" 1080p monitor, you mind telling me what you have and what you think of it? Cheers.
 
Adster3000 said:
A new monitor is on the list next. By the sound of everyone's opinion, I've been missing out. Guess it's time to try and earn some money.

However stupid you guys think I am, I've ordered the 480. The price is too good and my theoretical performance increase is enough to justify it for me.

Appreciate everyone's input.

If anybody has got a 21.5" 1080p monitor, you mind telling me what you have and what you think of it? Cheers.
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I don't think it's stupid, I actually think you've made a good move. You could buy a monitor now and then in two months a 480 could cost north of £250. Monitor prices are pretty stable.

I don't have any experience of a 21.5" monitors, but my Iiyama 24" 1080p display is awesome and not too expensive:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-067-IY&groupid=17&catid=510&subcat=
 
daveash said:
I don't think it's stupid, I actually think you've made a good move. You could buy a monitor now and then in two months a 480 could cost north of £250. Monitor prices are pretty stable.

I don't have any experience of a 21.5" monitors, but my Iiyama 24" 1080p display is awesome and not too expensive:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-067-IY&groupid=17&catid=510&subcat=
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'd be after a 21.5" because it's the smallest (or one of the smallest) monitor you can have 1080p. Would like to have a high pixel density. I also don't think I'd get much out of having a huge monitor.
 
i can play at 1920 fine on your current card fine and your worried about your res :confused:

like easy said no difference at that res and throwing money away buy a decent bigger monitor
 
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