Upgrade for 5850?

[clarkey01]

I have about £100 spare and would like to get an upgrade on the current card.

Years gone by I use to follow the GPU market like a hawk but not anymore.

Can anyone recommend me a card for that price? not fussed on ATI/Nvidia

Thanks

 

[Jaydip]

How much you are gonna get that for 5850?

 

[Mushkins]

Honestly, unless you're looking for a top of the line solution, my rig with a 5850 in it still plays the latest stuff just fine. Not too familiar with video card prices wherever you are, but the things beating out my 5850 are all ~$300+ 7xxx cards. I love my 7970 but it definitely wasnt cheap when I bought it 🙂

 

[Stuka87]

Honestly, unless you're looking for a top of the line solution, my rig with a 5850 in it still plays the latest stuff just fine. Not too familiar with video card prices wherever you are, but the things beating out my 5850 are all ~$300+ 7xxx cards. I love my 7970 but it definitely wasn't cheap when I bought it 🙂

A 7850 will easily beat a 5850, and it cost a lot less than $300.

But since the OP only has 100 to spare, it comes down to what a 5850 sells for. And I doubt it sells for ~100. So even a 7850 may be out of reach.

 

[raghu78]

a used HD 5850 will fetch around £80. spend around £115 and get a Sapphire HD 7870 XT. uses the HD 7870 Tahiti LE chip.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-11199-20-20G-CrossFireX-Multi-GPU-Technology/dp/B00AX2ONI0/

stock performance on par with HD 7950(800 Mhz). overclocked to 1.2 ghz matches HD 7970(925 Mhz) and should be close to 2x HD 5850 perf.

XFX and Powercolor are cheaper but the cooler is not as good as sapphire

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials...FREE+GAMES!+?productId=54322&source=skinflint

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials...X-787A-CNAC]+++4+FREE+GAMES!+?productId=55140

http://www.ebuyer.com/432444-powerc...gddr5-dvi-hdmi-dual-mini-ax78702gbd5-2dhppv3e

 

[clarkey01]

I was thinking perhaps this;

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-297-AS

Will I see a noticeable improvement ?

I play bf3, civ 5

 

[Headfoot]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/536?vs=512

My opinion is that you should get no less than a 7850 2GB or GTX 660. Anything less and you will not get enough performance to really be happy with your purchase.

Have you overclocked your 5850? If memory serves me right, you could get a noticeably large overclock out of most chips

 

[Stuka87]

I would not go for a 7770. Save up a bit more if need be, but a 2Gb 7850 is what you want. A 7870 if possible.

 

[toyota]

I was thinking perhaps this;

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-297-AS

Will I see a noticeable improvement ?

I play bf3, civ 5

all you have to do is look at reviews to see that a 7770 is slower than a 5850.

 

[nenforcer]

You could purchase another Radeon HD 5850 for CrossFire but would still be framebuffer limited at 1GB.

You really want to get up to a single Radeon HD 7850 2GB level.

 

[Montosaurous]

Radeon 7850 would be the lowest priced card worth upgrading to.

 

[nenforcer]

all you have to do is look at reviews to see that a 7770 is slower than a 5850.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/512?vs=536

The Radeon HD 7770 has newer DX11 architecture and consumes less power but still loses the majority of the tests.