Would a new grafic card be enough?

[HardknoxDK]

Hey all

I am trying to figure out if a new grafic card would be enough to improve my computer or I should go for a hole new computer instead....?

My specs:

- Core 2 Duo CPU E8500 3.16 GHz
- 4 GB ram
- Radeon 4870, 512 GB
- PSU corsiar 650 watts

I dont want to spend a lot of money on a new grafic card if it dosent improve that much.

Hope someone can help

 

[coozie7]

The system is not badly balanced for medium/low resolution gaming, if you are playing at 1680x1050 or 1080 a faster card will help, look around the HD6870/GTX460 class, more is going to be held back by the CPU, less is not going to give any framerate improvements.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/best-gaming-graphics-card-geforce-gtx-590-radeon-hd-6990,review-32134.html

The above link was prepared before the HD6790 and GTX550Ti were released so you should also check out a few reviews of those as well.