Trying to decide which card I should upgrade to, and hoping that my Video Card is the bottleneck for FPS and not my CPU. It's basically 4 choices.
I noticed there are 3 different 5870s from Sapphire. A normal one for $389, Vapor-X cooling for $459, and then the 2GB 5870 for $509. Is there any large difference in performance worth the price for the 5850 vs any of these models?
Background:
I recently got the new Acer 120hz 1080p monitor. Coming from my old 1650 max resolution 22" Acer, I could run TF2 at a constant 100fps @ 1440x900. Now I'm forced to run it at 1920x1080 with this new monitor to make it look good. I'll stay at ~120fps in enclosed areas, but in certain outdoor areas and with lots of people on the screen I can fall as low as 60fps. The odd part is, changing my graphics settings and even changed to directx8 has very small effects on my fps. I can go from high everything to low everything, and it'll improve my fps by maybe 5-10 at the most. I'm aiming to stay at a constant 100+ fps.
Current Rig:
e8400 @ 4.0ghz
4870 1gb
4 gigs of OCZ Reaper
Windows XP
I noticed there are 3 different 5870s from Sapphire. A normal one for $389, Vapor-X cooling for $459, and then the 2GB 5870 for $509. Is there any large difference in performance worth the price for the 5850 vs any of these models?
Background:
I recently got the new Acer 120hz 1080p monitor. Coming from my old 1650 max resolution 22" Acer, I could run TF2 at a constant 100fps @ 1440x900. Now I'm forced to run it at 1920x1080 with this new monitor to make it look good. I'll stay at ~120fps in enclosed areas, but in certain outdoor areas and with lots of people on the screen I can fall as low as 60fps. The odd part is, changing my graphics settings and even changed to directx8 has very small effects on my fps. I can go from high everything to low everything, and it'll improve my fps by maybe 5-10 at the most. I'm aiming to stay at a constant 100+ fps.
Current Rig:
e8400 @ 4.0ghz
4870 1gb
4 gigs of OCZ Reaper
Windows XP