Graphics card question. Should I or shouldn't I?

[TheDarkWraith]

You do know that the brain sees fluid motion @ ~ 30fps right? You don't need anything higher than 30fps. Anything over 30fps is really overkill

[Swat]

I'd agree here with 30 fps theory. Especially in case of SH where everything is going on somehow slower than in other games, clicking UI buttons is definitely fine in 30 fps etc. But still, misha, you should consider doing 570 a favour and get some up to date cpu. That's an old principle that the system can be only that fast as its slowest/weakest component. Wrom what I've read I think you're about to step in the new world - I mean finding out what nowadays cpu's can really do with performance. I've experinced the same couple of years ago when I was upgrading gpu's every 18 months - litteraly. And suddenly as time went by the boosts I was getting were less and less satisfying. I remember when I upgraded my old Athlon 3400 to Core2Duo. I had 8800 GTX back then and I couldn't believe 20 fps gain in Oblivion which I was playing at that time. Since then I started to be aware of not to underestimate the role of good cpu. More new cpu demanding games started to be released, I read few articles on certain websites, tests, reviews etc. and it is more than clear today that cpu power is important in the first place. In the past majority of the games were purely gpu dependant, but today it's different. Sometimes devs implement decent physical system and combined with top notch graphics it takes both components to be good. And even if it's only gpu demanding game that graphic card will only perform to the extent of the cpu capability. Anyway I belive SH5 is comfortably playable on your system and that's important. But you know what.....that cpu goes like thisand 570 goes like this. Get the cpu go like thisand 570 will be

[misha1967]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

You do know that the brain sees fluid motion @ ~ 30fps right? You don't need anything higher than 30fps. Anything over 30fps is really overkill

Absolutely. What I was trying to do was to get it to run where it had a bottom frame rate of about 30, and I think I've found that now.

Originally Posted by Swat

But you know what.....that cpu goes like thisand 570 goes like this. Get the cpu go like thisand 570 will be

Yep. That pretty much sums it up. Excellent use of smilies, Swat!

A rebuild is definitely next on my list of stuff to do, but now that I've got it to run beautifully by not trying to run the 570 on max settings (which, to be honest, don't make that much of a difference compared to the 260, I had to look really carefully before I noticed and that, by the way, is how I realized that I should have checked those settings from the beginning), I can put it off a bit while still enjoying SH5 more than ever