Would a £250 GFX card be overkill on this system?

Thanks for the input guys. I dont plan on upgrading my monitor any time soon as i've only had it 12 months or so. Plus its a Dell IPS panel so its really quite nice.

I do, however, plan on upgrading the rest of my system next year to an i5 rig or equivalent.
 
Jony27 said:
bulldozer and sandybridge/(2011 socket?) will be out by the time you upgrade next year.
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Or he could wait for people tossing out their i5/i7 and get them cheap 2nd hand and save some bucks :D

This is what I'm considering doing, depending on the performance difference between the new platforms and the i5/i7.

Zaim said:
I'd buy that over a 470, it consumes a lot less power, less heat and more performance.
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6870 does consume less power and run cooler than the GTX470, but to say it offer more performance...you are misleading the OP.
 
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Oh and an update on the Arctic Freezer Pro 7 CPU cooler.

I have just ditched my old nforce motherboard and move my Q6600 to onto a Asus P5Q Deluxe and gotten a new Cooler Master 690 II Adanced case. I have now overclocked my Q6600 to 3.6GHz using 1.48vcore, and my max temp in prime95 doesn't even go beyond 65C.

I wonder where has PhoenixUK gone to hiding after saying those rubbish about AC7 being crap :D
 
Goose said:
I've been out of the loop for a couple of years with all things hardware related and i'm thinking of upgrading since the latest FPS games are a bit poo on my current system (see sig).

I was wondering if buying a new GFX card like a Nvidia 470 would be overkill if i left everything else as it is. Would a 470 only be worth the money if I upgraded my CPU and ram as well? My CPU isn't overclocked (never OC'd anything before) but i have a pretty decent case with good cooling potential so it's something i could look into.

I'm worried my RAM wont be up to the task of OC'ing though since it only cost about £40 when new over 18 months ago.

Anyhoo, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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I replaced my 4850 with a 6870 yesterday, impressed with the performance so far, although I've only the 4850 to compare it against.

6870, 470 both will make a huge difference IMO. Maybe even consider the 460 1gb or a 6850.
 
OCDStevo said:
I replaced my 4850 with a 6870 yesterday, impressed with the performance so far, although I've only the 4850 to compare it against.

6870, 470 both will make a huge difference IMO. Maybe even consider the 460 1gb or a 6850.
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Roughly speaking, GTX460 and 6850 at stock is around twice as fast a 4850/GTS250.
 
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