yeah for sure most games will be playable up to 1080p with med-high settings...but for some games such as BFBC2, crysis, Metro 2033, and games of this nature you will definatley have to scale things back, but in the end the 4870 is a great value if you can find one for cheap on ebay and is generally on par with a 5770 of todays standards just to let you know, what is your monitors resolution at least?