GPU suggestions

[shahidr100]

Hi,
I have a rig with following configuration:

System Specifications:
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I. Processor/CPU: AMD II X4 965 BE
II. Current Graphics Card: On board ATI HD4290
III. Display Resolution: 19" AOC LED monitor with 1280 resolution
IV. Power Supply Unit Specification : Coler aster 450 Watt
V. Case Specifications: Cooler Master Elite Series
VI. Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H
VII. 4GB DDR3 RAM installed.
VIII. WIndows 7 Professional x64

What I need is to buy an additional GPU which will enhance gaming.
I also work on Photoshop and Coreldraw X3 (sometimes)

Purchase Details:
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I. Budget: INR 3.5k
II. Any particular preferences : ATI Radeon as I already have ATI HD4290 onboard. But I do not know how much memory it has built in.

III. Do you plan to have any Multi-GPU solutions such as Crossfire or SLI? YES with on board GPU.

IV. Have you previously looked at a product(s) which you feel would fit your needs? YES

ATI Radeon HD5570
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desk...hd-5000/hd-5570/Pages/hd-5570-overview.aspx#2

V. What are your needs for this GPU? MAX PAYNE3/Far Cry/Call of Duty other games of these types

VI. Do you plan on overclocking the card you intend to purchase? No.

Please help asap.

 

[Jaydip]

Can u increase ur budget a bit?In case thats not possible have a look at this
http://www.flipkart.com/powercolor-...WCYZ&ref=7275e6cb-59bd-4618-8fe9-89d14c16f6ce
Its a ddr3 version so it won't offer u much in modern games.

 

[shahidr100]

Thnx for reply.

Well yes, I can increase the budget by 1k approx.

Regards,
Shahid

 

[Jaydip]

Well I searched for a bit but its getting difficult to find a gddr5 card within ur budget
Can u get this?
http://www.flipkart.com/zotac-nvidi...PMSR&ref=13fcd9f0-ed0b-4598-bd14-1ef935c64d57

 

[shahidr100]

Thanks a lot for your reply.
I liked the product but its a DDR5 and my system is DDR3. Unnecessarily I have to pay for DDR5. Secondly I already have onboard ATI Radeon 4290, so I would prefer ATI product which I can crossfire.

What difference will memory make if I buy 2gb ddr3 or 1gb ddr3?

Any other suggestions?

 

[toyota]

just get a decent card and skip trying to run hybrid crossfire with that awful integrated 4290.

 

[shahidr100]

What do you suggest?
My system RAM is DDR3 so does DDR5 GPU help at all?

 

[Jaydip]

There's no relation with that.We are way behind to get ddr5 ram in our system On a side note T ur new pic rocks man

 

[shahidr100]

oh ok...
Thanks to all of you who have replied to my stupd queries.
In light of the replies I will decide which one to buy. Probably I will go for DDR3 with 1GB which you suggested Jaydip but it shows out of stock.
Will have to search for it in the market.
Thanks once again.

 

[Jaydip]

Yeah check with ur local retailers

 

[toyota]

even at 1280x1024, a 5570 is darn slow and is not even going to play some newer games smoothly except on lower settings.

 

[KingFatty]

I already tried hybrid crossfire with the HD 4290 and an HD 5450. It actually worked, but some applications did not understand hybrid crossfire and wouldn't take advantage of any increased speed so the game ran the same speed as it would have if I just used the HD 5450.

Also, I don't think you can crossfire with an HD 5570 like you suggest, why do you think that crossfire configuration would work? Even if you could get the drivers to recognize the crossfire setup, I don't think your game would work with it anyway and you'd not gain any performance. In an example for me, I ran Unigine Heaven benchmark on my hybrid crossfire setup (HD4290 and HD5450), and Heaven reported my computer as having quad crossfire HD5450, which is wrong. The actual performance/score that I got under hybrid crossfire was the same as running the benchmark under the HD5450 by itself with the HD4290 disabled. So software just won't take advantage of hybrid crossfire.

Also, consider how very very slow the HD 4290 is. It has only 40 stream processing units, think of that like an engine with only 40 horsepower. But compare that to a very inexpensive video card like a 5670 that has 400 stream processing units, like 400 horsepower or a 10x increase. There are other differences, but you get the idea of how puny the 4290 is compared to another discrete video card that is very inexpensive. If you could imagine a hypothetical computer with nine HD4290s crossfired to each other in some mega crossfire setup, it would still be slower than one HD5670.

So, I wonder if you see the comparison here, maybe it's easier to accept the idea of just not worrying about using hybrid crossfire, just disable the HD4290 and use another video card, it's OK. You won't lose any performance potential because the HD4290, at best, could just add a drop in the bucket compared to another real video card. Also, even if you got hybrid crossfire setup correctly, most games will be confused and not understand even how to take advantage of it anyway and run at the same speed as if you didn't even use crossfire and just used the faster card alone.