Which graphics card (again)

[Help a south african]

Ok so I managed to get more out of my budget and this is my new list:


GTS450 2GB DDR5

NVIDIA GTS450 1GB GDDR5

NVIDIA 9800GT 1GB GDDR3

Radeon HD5670 1GB GDDR5

RADEON HD5750 1GB DDR5 PCI EXPRESS

Radeon HD5770 1GB GDDR5 PCI EXPRESS

Radeon HD5770 1GB GDDR5

ok guys now its youre turn tell me which one is the best.

Il be using a qaud core phenom II 965 3.4 ghz black edition and 8 gb ram at 1600 mhz and a asus m5a97.

thanks

 

[Sunius]

I've never heard of any of these manufacturers..

 

[Help a south african]

I've never heard of any of these manufacturers..

theres nividia and redeon. the axle and biostar are just people who upgraded it

 

[refillable]

Get 6770

 

[Help a south african]

Get 6770

not in my region

 

[simon12]

Get the 5770 its the best of this choice (and identical to a 6770).

 

[Help a south african]

Get the 5770 its the best of this choice (and identical to a 6770).

How well wil it cope playing games like assassins creed and mass effect 3 on windows 7 with a qaud core

 

[refillable]

If it isn't get 5770

You will be good with it.

 

[Help a south african]

If it isn't get 5770

You will be good with it.

Ok thanks. what is pci express

 

[refillable]

PCI Express is the slot where your graphics card slot. If both motherboard and card support PCI-E technology, you should be fine. And PCI-E 2.0 is needed for PCI-E 2.1 so that you don't get issues.

 

[Help a south african]

ok can you find out if the asus m5a97 has pci?

 

[Help a south african]

ok one more thing. what are the difference between these 2:

http://www.vtechnologies.co.za/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=392&category_id=30&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=92

and

http://www.vtechnologies.co.za/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=284&category_id=30&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=92

 

[refillable]

Of course mate, 970 is the newest chipset from AMD.

M5A97 is a really nice budget motherboard from ASUS. Really good.

 

[Help a south african]

ok thanks now can you tell me which one of those 2 5770 are the best

 

[refillable]

Radeon HD5770 1GB GDDR5 PCI EXPRESS

Get the Axle one, I think it's better.

 

[Help a south african]

ok thanks

 

[refillable]

welcome, good luck and have a good day .

 

[Help a south african]

ok so i am going to buy a hd radeon 5770 gddr5 1gb and would like to know how well it wil cope playing games at 1600x900 and 1900x1080p my cpu is amd phenom II x4 3.4ghz 965 thanks

 

[refillable]

Benchmarks are here http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-5770-review-test/

 

[simon12]

Don't expect to max out demanding games but it should play everything on high settings.

 

[Help a south african]

I would like to know what is crossfirex.

From what I know it is when you use 2 graphic cards. but does crossfire make 2 bad graphics cards better than one good one?

 

[simon12]

Read this http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/245454-15-crossfire-faqs
CrossfireX is crossfire with 3-4 cards while crossfire is 2 cards. Yes crossfire can make 2 midrange cards better than a high end one. Low end cards do not scale well in crossfire (or work out cost effective). For AMD cards its only really worth considering on a Radeon 6850 or better (unless you already have a 5770/6770). There are also downsides like cooling, driver issues, microstuttering etc. Also you need the right motherboard and power supply for it too.

 

[Help a south african]

ok so can you think of 2 cards that wil be better with crossfire and cheaper than a 5770

 

[refillable]

If you get the 5770, you can save money, then get another 5770, and then crossfire it. But in order to crossfire, you need a motherboard that does support it and, to meet recommended setting you need to get at least a 8x/8x PCI-E x16's lanes. The performance of a single 6870 is the same as 5770 crossfire.

But on the other side, there is some issue when crossfiring compared to single card setup, which is temperature (crossfire run hotter), micro-shuttering, Drivers, noise, and overall much hassle.

So if you can buy a single card which has the same performance as a crossfire setup, you'd better with a single card setup. If you're keeping your old GPU and add another one to crossfire it instead of upgrading the GPU as a whole, it's OK.

 

[Help a south african]

ok does the asus m5a97 support crossfire? and what exactly is micro shutter and what do you do about the heat