Thinking of upgrading Videocard.

[applepearwine]

I currently have a XFX 4670 1GB card. I am thinking about getting a 5770, but not really certain if I should do it now or wait for a better card for around the same price. My card plays all my games well, but thinking about getting some more games with faster hardware requirements.

My rig is as follows:
AMD PhenomII 550
2gb 1333 ram
Asus- M4A785-M EVO
XFX 4670 1 GB

In the future I also want to go to a 6 core cpu, but that might be late this year or early next. I am within the next couple months going to get some more ram.

Should I wait, or what?

Perry

 

[toyota]

only YOU can make the decision if you need more performance. a 4670 is pretty weak now but at a low res it will suffice for most games. two questions that need to be asked are what res do you plan to run your games at and what is your power supply?

dont even worry about 6 cores at this point. and yeah I would grab 2gb more of ram since 2gb just doesnt cut it in some games.

 

[NoQuarter]

What resolution are you playing at? If it's above 1280x1024 I think you'd enjoy the upgrade to a 5770. Also if it's any help I doubt GPU prices are going to change any for quite a while still so now is as good a time to buy as any.

 

[kalrith]

I personally bought a stop-gap card to last me until the next generation comes out, and hopefully the GPU prices are no longer stagnant. I upgraded from a 2900 Pro to a 4870 512MB for $85 from the FS forums. If I sell the card 6-12 months from now, I should get a decent chunk of that back.

You could do something similar and get something cheap to hold you over until the GPU market's better.

 

[NoQuarter]

I personally bought a stop-gap card to last me until the next generation comes out, and hopefully the GPU prices are no longer stagnant. I upgraded from a 2900 Pro to a 4870 512MB for $85 from the FS forums. If I sell the card 6-12 months from now, I should get a decent chunk of that back.

You could do something similar and get something cheap to hold you over until the GPU market's better.

Wait the 4870 was a stop gap between your 2900 Pro and a 6870?? That 'stop gap' was a huge upgrade

 

[Attic]

Not gonna find a better card than the 5770 for the same price for quite some time.

 

[GlacierFreeze]

Wait for the next series. No reason to buy every series back to back. Waste of money, imo. Usually not that significant of a bump in performance to justify an extra couple hundred. I don't miss a thing when getting every 3rd series...

 

[NoQuarter]

Wait for the next series. No reason to buy every series back to back. Waste of money, imo. Usually not that significant of a bump in performance to justify an extra couple hundred. I don't miss a thing when getting every 3rd series...

Well he'd be going from the entry level budget card from previous generation to the mainstream part of the current so it's a little bigger jump.

 

[kalrith]

Wait the 4870 was a stop gap between your 2900 Pro and a 6870?? That 'stop gap' was a huge upgrade

Yeah, I guess "stop gap" was kind of a misnomer since the 4870 will have about double the performance of my 2900 Pro . I was hoping that a 5850 would've dropped down into my sub-$200 price range, but since it didn't, I bought a less-expensive card instead. I thought about a 5770 1GB, but I couldn't justify the price increase over the 4870 I got.

Edit: What I basically meant was instead of spending my full video-card budget on a 5770 1GB, I decided to go with a less-expensive card now and hopefully have better choices from the next generation of video cards. I typically skip 1 generation of video cards when I upgrade.

 

[Dark Shroud]

I'm currently running a Sapphire 4670 1GB. If you can hold out for September I would suggest doing so. That's rummored to be when the ATI 6000 series cards come out. That should drive prices down a little along with Nvidia releasing at least 1 more lower end FERMI card.

Either way the 5770 is a good card and should at least last you 18 months comfortably.