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frau kaleun · 05-14-11, 11:40 AM

I'm contemplating a video card upgrade myself, wondering about the HD5770 now.

I have an HEC Raptor R500 (500W) PSU, for gfx I'm still using the HD4650 that came with this rig. How much of boost would the new card give me? Most of my games are at least 2-3 years old, in fact SH4 is probably the newest one I have and I haven't even installed it yet.

Lol, here's a question, what's the most hard-core card I could go with, without upgrading anything else? Considering that I'm not going to be playing any of the latest and greatest games any time soon, of course. And then I'll work my way down from there to a more reasonably priced selection.

Rest of the specs:

AMD Athlon II X2 240 2.8 GHz AM3 processor
Asus M3A78-EM motherboard
Win7 64-bit
8 GB RAM

And it will need to be one PCIe 2.0 x 16 card since that's the only slot I'd have open for it. There's an empty slot below it so there's plenty of room there though.

05-14-11, 11:40 AM	#3
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	I'm contemplating a video card upgrade myself, wondering about the HD5770 now. I have an HEC Raptor R500 (500W) PSU, for gfx I'm still using the HD4650 that came with this rig. How much of boost would the new card give me? Most of my games are at least 2-3 years old, in fact SH4 is probably the newest one I have and I haven't even installed it yet. Lol, here's a question, what's the most hard-core card I could go with, without upgrading anything else? Considering that I'm not going to be playing any of the latest and greatest games any time soon, of course. And then I'll work my way down from there to a more reasonably priced selection. Rest of the specs: AMD Athlon II X2 240 2.8 GHz AM3 processor Asus M3A78-EM motherboard Win7 64-bit 8 GB RAM And it will need to be one PCIe 2.0 x 16 card since that's the only slot I'd have open for it. There's an empty slot below it so there's plenty of room there though. Last edited by frau kaleun; 05-14-11 at 11:53 AM.