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Would i feel a performance boost?

vairo

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Hi,

I am thinking of replacing my Ati 2900XT which i had now almost for 2 years.

It is still a great card but I feel like could use more FPS in MW2, i only play games few hours a week or month, and mostly it is MW2 or AAO.

My current rig which i did build years ago myself is:

Silverstone TJ06 case
Asus p5w dh Deluxe
2gb of OCZ 677mhz ram
Conroe E6600 2.4 clocked to 2.9ghz
Ati 2900XT 512mb
Belinea 22'' monitor 1650 x res so that is my max res i play games at.

I was hoping that i will be able to upgreat the whole system but looks like i ll have to wait till next year, so therefor i though maybe replacing 2900XT would do the trick atm.

Question, would ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 be much better than my 2900XT and would I actually be able to see the difference in fps? I would like to think that my system ain't that bad, and i could still cope with it for few more months.

Regards ;)

Vairo
 
Its sits between a 4870 and a 4890 but on a smaller process. So it'll be around 50-75% faster than what you have, possibly way more with AA but it'll also run a fair bit cooler.
 
Princey said:
Its sits between a 4870 and a 4890 but on a smaller process. So it'll be around 50-75% faster than what you have, possibly way more with AA but it'll also run a fair bit cooler.
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2900XT = 3870 in performance.

The 4850 is about twice the performance so expect more from the 5770.
 
Princey said:
Its sits between a 4870 and a 4890 but on a smaller process. So it'll be around 50-75% faster than what you have, possibly way more with AA but it'll also run a fair bit cooler.
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Okay, hopefully it won't be as noisy as my 2900XT on full load. But Yeah if i wont find anything better for such a price Ill get one of these next Friday.

Thanks for your comments.

BTW, anyone knows which Fan would be the less noisy ? Powercolor has got some interesting oldish design.
 
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vairo said:
Anyone else has something to add ?
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Yeah you may wanna consider getting some DDR2-800 or preferably DDR2-1066 to replace your older DDR2-666, that must be a laggy system with memory running sync [1:1] at 333MHz . . . .

I just did the same for a friend, sold his 2GB DDR2-666 for £20 and bought 4GB of DDR2-1066 for £40 . . . . so about £20 spent and much improved system, that was also an E6600 but running at stock with the new 4GB memory set to run a DDR2-1066 still! :cool:
 
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Big.Wayne said:
Yeah you may wanna consider getting some DDR2-800 or preferably DDR2-1066 to replace your older DDR2-666, that must be a laggy system with memory running sync [1:1] at 333MHz . . . .

I just did the same for a friend, sold his 2GB DDR2-666 for £20 and bought 4GB of DDR2-1066 for £40 . . . . so about £20 spent and much improved system, that was also an E6600 but running at stock with the new 4GB memory set to run a DDR2-1066 still! :cool:
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Good point mate, will def consider as one of the possibilities.


Just saw one of these Palit GeForce GTX 275 896MB GDDR3 i guess it can't be much faster than ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 ? Besides Ati card has DX11 advantage and is cheeper, could get 1066 ram instead as u said. ;)
 
GTX275 is about 10-15% faster. The 5770 is cooler, smaller, and uses less power (and has DX11 not that that really matters).
The 5770 is roughly equivalent to a 4870, and having had both the 2900XT and the, the 4870 is quite a bit faster.
(The 2900XT was a trade, it's actually still not that bad)
 
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The 4890 was the GTX275s competitor btw (at stock, a 1GHz 4890 flew). At £120 if you're looking at the GTX275, might be an option.
If you have a crossfire board then 5770 crossfire might be worth a look in the long run once subsequent drivers are out and we can judge any performance differences made :)
 
vairo said:
Question, would ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 be much better than my 2900XT and would I actually be able to see the difference in fps? I would like to think that my system ain't that bad, and i could still cope with it for few more months.

Regards ;)

Vairo
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If you are playing at max res then you will see a huge improvement. The 5770 is more than twice as fast in CoD. You will be able to play at 1680*1050 with everything maxed and still have 65-70fps average.
 
Alexrose1uk said:
The 4890 was the GTX275s competitor btw (at stock, a 1GHz 4890 flew). At £120 if you're looking at the GTX275, might be an option.
If you have a crossfire board then 5770 crossfire might be worth a look in the long run once subsequent drivers are out and we can judge any performance differences made :)
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Okay, will keep posting what ever ill decide to do and review it back at later stage. ;)


If you are playing at max res then you will see a huge improvement. The 5770 is more than twice as fast in CoD. You will be able to play at 1680*1050 with everything maxed and still have 65-70fps average.
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That's great coz currently i am not able to run mw2 smoothly enough on my highest res. And when i am in the middle of action fps drops big time, there is even 1 outdoor map where i get only 25 fps an average, but that is only in that one, every other map seems to run very good considering how old my system is.

Ta,

V.
 
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Wouldn't bother too much about the memory bandwidth - unless your doing a lot of very memory intensive stuff... benchmarking 3D Marks from CAS5 667MHz to CAS5 1152MHz saw a difference of just over 5% in performance - so for gaming it probably won't make much odds.
 
I had a 2900xt untill it broke on me, so just ordered a new 5770 (vapor ed), will be interested in the performance increase you get, or if you can wait till friday I can tell ya :)
 
Growkin said:
I had a 2900xt untill it broke on me, so just ordered a new 5770 (vapor ed), will be interested in the performance increase you get, or if you can wait till friday I can tell ya :)
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Yeah I ll wait till Friday mate, let me know how it runs. ;)

Cheers for the link chaparral, g1 , 5770 seem to have a fair boost in fps.
 
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