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recommendations for a new GPU please?

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  • 04-08-2010 8:19pm
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    shrapnel222
    Registered Users Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭


    guys i need to upgrade by graphics card. up to now to be honest, my old but reliable X1950 pro card has been able to handle pretty much anything i've thrown at it (probably not that much but still). it's played all games without any issues up to this point but is now starting to struggle and overheat massively, and i'm getting a lot of streaks in the games. it's always had overheating issues but i bought a big massive fan for it and that sorted the problem for a while but now it's struggling.

    i've just started reading into it and just realised there is now a pci-E 2 and 2.1, so have no idea if my motherboard (abit ip35 pro) is compatible ( i doubt it though), so i'm basically looking for a new GPU in the EUR100 mark.

    any recommendations would be much appreciated


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    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    Seems to be a PCI 1.0 board but the PCIe 2.0 cards are all backwards compatible anyway and it should't really adversly affect the performance of a less powerful card too much.

    Would look at maybe the HD5670, should be more than enough for what you need if you were happy enough with the 1900 XTs performance.


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    shrapnel222
    Registered Users Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    marco_polo wrote: »
    Seems to be a PCI 1.0 board but the PCIe 2.0 cards are all backwards compatible anyway and it should't really adversly affect the performance of a less powerful card too much.

    Would look at maybe the HD5670, should be more than enough for what you need if you were happy enough with the 1900 XTs performance.

    thanks, i'll check it out


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    shrapnel222
    Registered Users Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    one more question. i've narrowed it down to these 2. they're basically the same price at 110 and 105 respectively. the big difference is the memory and the make. don't forget i've only got a PC-E 1 motherboard so which would perform beeter on it?

    ASUS Radeon HD 5770 - 512 MB GDDR5 - PCI-Express 2.1 (EAH5770/2DI/512MD5)

    and

    SAPPHIRE TECHNOLOGY Radeon HD 5670 HM - 1 GB GDDR5 - PCI-Express 2.0 (11168-05-20R)

    cheers


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    lmimmfn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭lmimmfn


    id definately go for the 5770 for gaming, less memory means you probably cant max out textures in game but the extra performance across the board over that 5670 is worth it.


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    Solitaire
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    Also bear in mind the fact that the HD5670 doesn't have enough grunt to really use more than 512MB of memory anyway... :o

    Personally I'd look out for cheap HD5750s under €100 - sometimes you get special offers on them. Sometimes those offers are for the 1GB version... ;)


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    shrapnel222
    Registered Users Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    Solitaire wrote: »
    Also bear in mind the fact that the HD5670 doesn't have enough grunt to really use more than 512MB of memory anyway... :o

    Personally I'd look out for cheap HD5750s under €100 - sometimes you get special offers on them. Sometimes those offers are for the 1GB version... ;)

    cool thanks i'll keep a lookout


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