Holy upgrade Batman! (4670 -> 7850)

[Marty502]

I bought a 2 GB Sapphire Radeon 7850 a few days ago, replacing an ancient Radeon 4670 512MB . Easily the biggest performance jump I've ever experienced in a computer!

I'm not that much of a gamer, but I went from a 1680x1050 to a 1920x1200 monitor and that was the nail on the coffin,
even not so heavy games like Darksiders II and Deus Ex Human Revolution were killing my GPU.

The performance jump is insane. In Unigine Heaven I was in the low 20s with no AA, now it's way over the mid 40s with 4xAA and Tesselation.
Deus Ex Human Revolution, now it's all cranked up with SSOA, MLAA and Tesselation and it runs very smooth, constantly above 40 FPS.

Sadly I wanted to check Crysis 2 with DX11 and high res textures, but I had to apply the 1.9 patch and it's very unstable. Can't run it yet, it's crashing constantly.

I can see that now I'm quite CPU limited though. But it's far from tragic.
Ever experienced such a dramatic jump like this?

 

[lehtv]

I went from laptop with intel HD graphics to 4870 x2. that was a pretty big jump

 

[Termie]

You increased your gpu power by about five times. Yeah, that's something you'll notice!

Just as a heads up, if you're still using the Pentium G630 in your sig, you'll probably start to find games that are limited by your cpu. I've benchmarked Deus Ex on a dual core without hyperthreading, and there are points where it will slow down when you have details turned up.

 

[Marty502]

Yup, I can definitely notice my CPU runs out of juice in Deus Ex and other games, even with AA cranked and everything.

I bought this chip because I had to, I was short on cash and my old 939 rig went belly up so I needed a computer ASAP.

I'll try and buy an i7 once the prices come down a bit, I can't really justify it at this point.
Or maybe an i3 a bit sooner, if I run across a cheap used one.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

Get a i5 3570k

 

[Termie]

Get a i5 3570k

Doesn't make sense with his motherboard. i5-2400 would be plenty but a $120 i3-2120 is all he really needs anyway.

 

[lehtv]

Doesn't make sense with his motherboard. i5-2400 would be plenty but a $120 i3-2120 is all he really needs anyway.

Hmm. The board supports Ivy Bridge with a BIOS update, so I don't see any reason no to get an i3-3220 instead.

 

[Marty502]

I thought this board is supposed to support just about all 1155 chips out there?
Am I wrong? Haven't read much lately, I thought I was OK.

 

[Marty502]

Thanks for your input BTW dudes and dudettes on what CPU I should buy, but it's not gonna happen soon anyway...
I have other priorities and keep in mind I was doing fine with a 939 rig 4 months ago!

If it hadn't imploded I'd still be using it probably.

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

Thanks for your input BTW dudes and dudettes on what CPU I should buy, but it's not gonna happen soon anyway...
I have other priorities and keep in mind I was doing fine with a 939 rig 4 months ago!

If it hadn't imploded I'd still be using it probably.

With your mobo you need a BIOS update for ivy bridge CPUs. Also, make sure you do not get a K series CPU because you cannot overclock without a mobo upgrade.

 

[Necc]

Just out of curiosity Marty what PSU do you use?

 

[Marty502]

Got a Thermaltake Pure Power, 600 watts I think my friend.
I've had it for around 4 years, never had much of a hungry system so I imagine all the capacitors inside are doing fine.

EDIT: It's this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817153042

 

[Necc]

Got a Thermaltake Pure Power, 600 watts I think my friend.
I've had it for around 4 years, never had much of a hungry system so I imagine all the capacitors inside are doing fine.

EDIT: It's this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817153042

All good then

 

[aaksheytalwar]

my biggest upgrades:

p1 166 without hw acc TO p4 1.7 with tnt2 32mb

tnt2 w/o T&L to 9800 pro