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What to do (purchasing GPU)

powdaman

powdaman

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So recently my Graphics card died and unfortunately it was just over the warrantee period (doh!).

I start investigating potential replacements and cannot believe how many different types there are on the market (I usually go for the best but its been a while so I'm rusty!).

Now I keep hearing about DX11 and the fact that we are due some more new iterations from both NVIDIA and ATI so should I wait a bit before buying? How long do we envisage them taking to release the next gen cards?

Please help!

P0wda
 
Thanks for the reply's so far.

Well I run games at 1900x1200 resolution and have done for approximately a 2 years (with initially 7900GT in SLI then a single 8800GTX). My concern is spending a wad of cash on something now and then next month or so something 10 times better coming out.

Thats what happened when I purchased the 8800GTX, about 1 month later they released the next gen cards at roughly the same price! (DOH!).

Does anyone have any clue as to the release dates of the next gen cards as I dont seem to be able to find any information on them anywhere??
 
Would a GTX 275 be a good interim choice whilst waiting for the next Gen cards? Am currently running one of my old 7900 cards (its struggling)??

Also just saw the thread regards the 4890 2GB card.... Guess that would be a great card when it comes out?
 
Ok. Well ive now just this second purchased:

HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - OEM (H487F1GP)

As an interim card prior to DX11 and next gen cards coming out. Will let you all know my opinions on this when it arrives.

Its replacing an 8800GTX which has done me proud for approximately 3 years or so (approx) until it finally gave way to heat exhaustion!
 
Received my HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) on Friday and installed it without any issues.

Its a temporary card as I have said before but with that in mind, the performance is definately not very good. It doesnt even run World of Warcraft at 60fps on 1900x1200 with all the settings on low which was the least I would expect considering its a newer gen card then my previous one (8800GTX).

The GTX would run WOW without any issues with every setting on full.

FYI:
CPU 6600 Quad running 10% clocked (watercooled).
8GB DDR2 Dual Channel 800Mhz RAM
Creative XFI Extrememusic soundcard
Dell Ultra 24" Widescreen monitor

Maybe I should have forked out that extra 50 quid and gone with a 4890..


Oh well live and learn. Now its time to play the waiting game for the next gen DX11 cards...
 
most defiantely yes. I then rebooted (checked it was using default vga driver). Switched off and installed new card. Vista recognised it straight away and installed the default driver which I then updated to the latest revision, rebooted again.

I then turned up resolution to 1900x1200 and put all settings on max and i was getting about 16fps. With everyting set to minimum except view distance on 1900x1200 I get average of 47fps...

FYI running 64bit Vista Ultimate.
 
Ok when I get home I will run a few game and make a note of the FPS I am getting. I will then chuck them in this thread in order to find out if they are what is expected of this type of card...
 
Right I did what was suggested to no avail. I then removed all traces of any graphics drivers using the suggested tool in the top thread here and rebooted and reinstalled the graphics drivers. No success.

I then tried to run Crysis. I get approximately 40FPS running Crysis at 1900x1200 with all settings at Gamer and 2xAA.

In wow with all settings on full and 1xAA I get 8FPS at 1900x1200.

I am now scratching my head as to what can cause this. Are we saying that a 4870 cannot handle WOW on full at 1900x1200 whereas my old 8800GTX could fine?

Am also getting a little fed up with it all and so might just replace the whole damn system with a new computer....
 
I guess this is the horrid "switching from Nvidia to ATI" issue that i reckon is built into the drivers so that it always makes the latter slower than it should be.

Bugger. Ok format/reinstall to take place this weekend at latest. I shall report on progress shortly.

EDIT: Actually I might try reinstalling WOW first...
 
Right. I have rebuilt my computer completely (well dual booted it) and still no joy. World of Warcraft on Full at 1900x1200 is giving me about 10fps...

Are you all sure that the card should be able to perform better??

As I have previously stated my NVidia 8800 GTX handled wow fine...
 
OK sorry to ressurrect an old post but after speaking with overclockers and doing some more testing it does seem to effect a few other games. Overclockers reckon that its my PSU not having enough amps?

My PSU is 700w Jeantech which was happily powering 2 x 7900GT's SLI about 3 years ago, then a single 8800GTX. Can anyone advise as I know nothing about psu's :(((

Just tried GTA4 and its even laggy at 1280x1024???

help meeeee........
(please :P)
 
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