What would you recommend?

[McGill2010]

OK so at the minute i have a ATI Radeon HD 3870x2 Graphics Card, if i was to upgrade it at a later stage what should i upgrade to?

 

[paradisiac]

what do you want to use it for??

 

[Mumu2k]

and what does the rest of the system look like ? You don't want to buy a 5890 and bottleneck the card by havin in intel Atom maschiene ^^

 

[icysniper]

a budget for a new card would also be useful

 

[McGill2010]

heres the rest of the system, i wanna use it mainly for gaming, want something thats gonna be up-to-date for a good while budget possibly £100-£150

>>>>AMD Phenom ii X2 550 Black edition 3.1GHz 6MB Cache L3 Socket Am3

>>>>ASUS M4A77TD PRO 770 Socket AM3 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard

>>>>ATI Radeon HD 3870x2 Graphics Card

>>>>Coolmaster Elite 330 Case with Corsair 620 HX ( 620 HX ) High End PC Power Supply

>>>>2x2GB Patriot Sector 5 DDR3 1333MHZ CL6

>>>>Western Digital Wd5000 AAKS 500GB SATAii 7200Rpm 16MB Cache- OEM Caviar Blue

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The OP has an HX620W too.

TBH,I would wait a few weeks until the HD5830 is eventually released.

ATM,the HD5770 1GB and the HD4890 1GB are the best cards to get in the £100 to £150 price range IMHO although I would still test the HD3870X2 in some modern games before upgrading.

 

[McGill2010]

what kind of price is the HD5830 gonna be?

 

[Mumu2k]

I have been out of the game for several years so I#m not sure how a 3500x2 compares to 5770. So either buy one of them or wait for the 5830 as cat said
The 5830 is likely to be between the 5770 and the 5850

so between 120(5770) and 5850(220)
I would assume something along the lines of 160-170

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

what kind of price is the HD5830 gonna be?

It will be under £200 AFAIK and it is meant to replace the HD4890.

 

[McGill2010]

yeah ill prob test it 1st like. the systems not up and running yet just wanted to see what my options would be for the future
im getting the 3870x2 for £50 from my brother whos using the 5770 in his pc atm