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Upgrading GTX570 - to what though?

durbs

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My GTX570 Phantom has always been great and always played whatever I throw at it with no problem.

I've started the latest Bioshock though and am getting a bit of stuttering and the odd low frame rate issue on high settings so was considering upgrading (my 570 is already moderately OC'd).

I'm not up on the latest gen cards so would one of these http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-097-GI be a worthwhile upgrade?

I'm guessing I'd get £100+ for my 570 so it'd be a cheap(ish) upgrade but..............is it worth it or is there anything else around the £350 mark that's better?

Ta.
 
Nearest ,price wise, nvidia would , I think, be the Gigabyte 670 windforce.

But taking into account the facts that it is , I believe , the faster card and you get the 2 free games it has got to be , imho, the 7970.

n.b. Save £100 and get a 7950 :D
 
I'm in the same boat and tbh an upgrade for you, and I, would be something like the 7970 or a high end 680. Nothing else would be a worthy upgrade imo. The extra VRAM is also usefull as the 570 only has 1.28gig
 
I was in the same position as you a few weeks back. I sold my EVGA 570 and bought a second hand EVGA 670 (2 years left on warranty) The upgrade cost me £100
 
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I was in the same position as you a few weeks back. I sold my EVGA 570 and bought a second hand EVGA 670 (2 years left on warranty) The upgrade cost me £100
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Is it a noticeable improvement?

Have just noticed on the nvidia site they have 'Geforce R313 Driver for Bioshock Infinite'! That may sort my 570 out.

But.........still fancy that 7970 for the money it'd cost me to upgrade, rest of the rig is ok and based around a Sandy i7 2600K so I'm reckoning that extra vram will give me a bit more future-proofness.
 
durbs said:
Is it a noticeable improvement?

Have just noticed on the nvidia site they have 'Geforce R313 Driver for Bioshock Infinite'! That may sort my 570 out.

But.........still fancy that 7970 for the money it'd cost me to upgrade, rest of the rig is ok and based around a Sandy i7 2600K so I'm reckoning that extra vram will give me a bit more future-proofness.
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Maybe but you're still likely to run into frame rate limitations from raw GPU grunt than you are to hit the VRAM limit. (670 vs 7950)

It depends what happens in the future. It has the potential to be more future proof but doesn't mean it will.

The 7950/70 are the better package overall IMO.
 
The 7950 is a top card and overclocks very nicely. The price makes it a very good buy and the free games are a bonus or you can sell those and recoup some cash :)
 
durbs said:
Is it a noticeable improvement?

Have just noticed on the nvidia site they have 'Geforce R313 Driver for Bioshock Infinite'! That may sort my 570 out.

But.........still fancy that 7970 for the money it'd cost me to upgrade, rest of the rig is ok and based around a Sandy i7 2600K so I'm reckoning that extra vram will give me a bit more future-proofness.
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Massively - 48fps > 75fps in Heaven 2.5 (only had screenshot of 2.5 on 570)

1440p is actually playable now in games

I haven't got Bioshock Infinite but I presume that R313 driver does something nice to the game?

edit - just found it - http://www.nvidia.com/object/win8-win7-winvista-64bit-314.22-whql-driver.html

I'm getting the 314.22 drivers now. Wont these do anymore? Do you have to get special modified drivers for some games???
 
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edit - just found it - http://www.nvidia.com/object/win8-win7-winvista-64bit-314.22-whql-driver.html

I'm getting the 314.22 drivers now. Wont these do anymore? Do you have to get special modified drivers for some games???
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Don't know, just installing these and it seems to be just a normal release but billed as 'Bioshock Infinite driver' for some reason. I've not noticed a driver release headlined against a certain game before it says its a 'GeForce Game Ready driver', meh, dunno.
 
The driver is mainly aimed at improvements for Bioshock, this isn't unusual for any driver releases. Both AMD and nVidia release updates that improve one or more games. It's not a "specific" driver - it's the latest :)
 
I've currently an overclocked gtx570 - and have been looking around

this weekend I've had a go with my dad's system - which has a stock EVGA GTX670 - was expecting it to see it leagues ahead of the 570 - but its not really (admitadly the 670 is at stock though)

Valley at ExtremeHD was only slightly faster 1700 on the 670 stock and 1520 on the 570 overclocked

so yes faster -and overclocked - faster still I'm sure (his gets to 70C at stock so not much mileage in clocking) - but worth shelling out 300 ? not convinced

I then tried Arma 3 - wondering if it would suddenly feel a lot smoother with the extra VRAM over the 570 ? well - not noticeably it didn't - if at all

think I'll slum it out till next range of cards are out
 
AMD-7950 ftw, cheaper 2 free AAA titles, slower out the box but slightly faster oc'ed than the 670 with an extra 1Gb of comfort knowing it's there.

Nvidia-670 ftw, faster out the box than a 7950 but more expensive, slightly slower oc'ed than the 7950 but you get PhysX and in game cash for mmo's.
 
Buckster said:
I've currently an overclocked gtx570 - and have been looking around

this weekend I've had a go with my dad's system - which has a stock EVGA GTX670 - was expecting it to see it leagues ahead of the 570 - but its not really (admitadly the 670 is at stock though)

Valley at ExtremeHD was only slightly faster 1700 on the 670 stock and 1520 on the 570 overclocked

so yes faster -and overclocked - faster still I'm sure (his gets to 70C at stock so not much mileage in clocking) - but worth shelling out 300 ? not convinced

I then tried Arma 3 - wondering if it would suddenly feel a lot smoother with the extra VRAM over the 570 ? well - not noticeably it didn't - if at all

think I'll slum it out till next range of cards are out
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Play Crysis 3 in 1440p on a 570 in a mixture of very high and high settings = terrible

On a 670 I average around 50fps and multiplayer is generally above 60fps, averaging 70.

570 was more like 20 / 30, if that
 
Guest 2 -unfortunately or fortunately - depending on how you look at it - I only have a 1080p 24 inch monitor - so can't game at 1440p :)

my dads 670 seems to boost at stock to 1085

I'm running the 570 at 960/2350
 
There should be a substantial difference between a 570 and a 670. He must have it set up wrong or the benchmark you're running isn't using the cards full potential.

I upgraded from dual 5850's to a 5850 and later to a 670 and the difference was massive.
 
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