Whats are your thoughts on this?

[Chris_Hebden]

I'm looking to lower the cost of my build and i think the graphics card is the place to do it ! I have spotted one of these:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-226-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat

However I was reccommended one of these by the fine people off this forum:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-149-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1515

Would the cheaper one be suitable to play heavy games? I.e. FSX and other sim games?

Cheers Chris

please excuse the poor english in the thread title

 

[petriodet]

duh didn't look at the links properly. 5770 is worth the extra moneyz, doubt 5570 will run fsx, not even sure if the5770 will run it at resonably res

 

[DarkWhisper]

there not the same card..... 1 is gddr5 the other one is gddr3 and they have dif clock speeds so NO there not the same card.

 

[Chris_Hebden]

there not the same card..... 1 is gddr5 the other on is gddr3 and they have dif clock speeds so NO there not the same card.

LOL i got confused also, thought you were saying that about my post!?!?

 

[Chris_Hebden]

duh didn't look at the links properly. 5770 is worth the extra moneyz, doubt 5570 will run fsx, not even sure if the5770 will run it at resonably res

Why dont you think it would run it mate?

 

[Phatzy]

fsx is more cpu bound, the ati 5770 will play the game at a reasonable framerate only if you got a decent cpu. the 5770 will power future games and current games at a decent res and framerate.

 

[Chris_Hebden]

Ok, so the likely hood is i cant shift on the graphics card. I am planning to use it with a AMD quad core processor

 

[Mangochutney]

Do you really need dx11?
A 4890 is faster than the 5770 and will cost only a little more.

Oh, and off topic, but that is one tidy looking Turbo! Yours?

 

[MoRT489]

It kinda depends on what resolution ur gaming at. If 1080p i would doubt u'd be happy with the performance of a 5770 even to be honest. The 4890 might be a better choice.

 

[Prof. Cheese]

I've never played FSX but I've read lots of people saying that this game STRONGLY favours nVidia cards. So you may be better off getting a second hand GTX260/275/280. If buying new, a GTX 260.