5770 a good upgrade for my 8800?

[exar333]

Going from NVidia to ATI I do recommend a clean install of your operating system (even if you just install it on a temp partition to see if you get better performance)...

Regarding cache size...

E5200 has 2, E8400 has 6. In games the E8400 can be 10-20% faster...

A 3.4 GHz E5200 should be pretty even with a E8400...

3DMark 06 is really a CPU benchmark these days. Much better off testing with Vantage

That really overkill, unless you hit a specific problem following the switch. It generally is much easier to set your Graphics driver to a generic VGA one before removing the old card, uninstall the NV or ATI drivers, install the new card, and then install the new drivers. Works perfectly 99% of the time, unless there is some other mitigating factor.

 

[Phil1977]

Yes it might be overkill, but its not that much effort creating a new partition, installing your OS plus latest drivers and do another run of 06...

If the scores are the same, just wipe that partition. If they aren't than you can dig deeper.

But right now what are you supposed to do next?

 

[xpose]

I just went from an 8800GT to the Radeon 5770, (My first ever ATI card).

I think you should, especially if you have a widescreen monitor. I'm pleased with the results thus far.

 

[Xarick]

would a 5850 be overkill?

 

[Phil1977]

would a 5850 be overkill?

With that cpu yea...

A 4 GHz wolfdale different story...

Or cheap dual core i3 next month...

 

[Interitus]

Those numbers for a 5850 seem way off. I'm running kind of conservative overclocks on my CPU and 5770. E8500@4.04Ghz and the Sapphire 5770@905/1365, here's my 3D06:

16251 3DMarks
6972 SM2.0
8183 SM3.0
3601 CPU


For twice the price, that seems way off.

It's most likely the bloated OS. I haven't reinstalled in ages, still running XP Home w/ 3GB RAM (4 but cut to 3 by the OS). I'm sure when I finally get around to getting my Win7 installed it will go up a fair bit. I'm also on stock 3.0ghz in that run, so I'm sure your 1Ghz higher clock has a lot to do with it as well.

I know the numbers are a tad crappy, but if you reference them to the 8800GTS 512 score that was run about 30 minutes before the 5850 score, it would give the OP an idea of what to expect.

 

[evolucion8]

Going from NVidia to ATI I do recommend a clean install of your operating system (even if you just install it on a temp partition to see if you get better performance)...

Regarding cache size...

E5200 has 2, E8400 has 6. In games the E8400 can be 10-20% faster...

A 3.4 GHz E5200 should be pretty even with a E8400...

3DMark 06 is really a CPU benchmark these days. Much better off testing with Vantage

You are totally right, 3DMark06 is so CPU bound. These are my scores for reference, considering that the HD 5770 performs as fast, slighly faster or slighly slower than my card.

3DMark06 Score: 17280
SM2.0: 6486
HDR/SM3.0: 7861
CPU: 5728