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The GTX 550Ti has over 70% better "Memory Bandwidth" and over 125% better "Pixel Rate" for the same TDP as one 8800GT (512MB version). You should get a 560 to get a better performance.

If you have a PCI-E, it will be work fine.

And btw what cpu spec do you have?
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einterlan said:
The GTX 550Ti has over 70% better "Memory Bandwidth" and over 125% better "Pixel Rate" for the same TDP as one 8800GT (512MB version). You should get a 560 to get a better performance.

If you have a PCI-E, it will be work fine.

And btw what cpu spec do you have?


Hi, my cpu is a Q6600 PCI express x16

einterlan said:
The GTX 550Ti has over 70% better "Memory Bandwidth" and over 125% better "Pixel Rate" for the same TDP as one 8800GT (512MB version). You should get a 560 to get a better performance.

If you have a PCI-E, it will be work fine.

And btw what cpu spec do you have?


Hi and thanks for reply, will a Radion 6850 run in the PCIe slot?
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What's your budget? It will run on older PCIe slot, but I doubt HD6850 is much of an upgrade. You won't lose performance, but I doubt you'll see much difference.

So it all comes down to your budget, and before you tell that, please tell us the whole components of your system.

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hamsemilla said:
Hi, my cpu is a Q6600 PCI express x16

It will be perfectly fine. Very good cuad core procesor (its old i know but still good for gaming and other stuff).
And you have full X16 PCI-E, thats very good.

I have 2 pc in my home, one is a "first generation (old old old) phenom x4 (9850 BE 2.5GHZ), 3GB ram, ATI 5770 X-VAPOR 1gb gddr5 and games run perfectly in 1650x1050p 22" LG monitor, games like Crysis 2, WoW, and several MMORPG actual games, in 30 - 60 fps (depending config).

As i said, just catch the 560 (if you can) or try a lil bit less expensive 550Ti (its a competitor of my actual ATI 5770 1gb great card both).

Salute!
Emiliano.
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Sunius said:
What's your budget? It will run on older PCIe slot, but I doubt HD6850 is much of an upgrade. You won't lose performance, but I doubt you'll see much difference.

So it all comes down to your budget, and before you tell that, please tell us the whole components of your system.


Seriously? lol You doubt that 6850 not better than 550Ti? On average 6850 is 15-25% faster than 550Ti...the cheapest 550Ti is 109.99 and for you can find 6850 $15 more...still in doubt? Nvidia simply has no product that can compete with AMD in $70-$150 segment

This is just one bench but rest look the same

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2012-vga-gpgpu/07-Cr...
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maxinexus said:
Seriously? lol You doubt that 6850 not better than 550Ti? On average 6850 is 15-25% faster than 550Ti...the cheapest 550Ti is 109.99 and for you can find 6850 $15 more...still in doubt? Nvidia simply has no product that can compete with AMD in $70-$150 segment

This is just one bench but rest look the same

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2012-vga-gpgpu/07-Cr...


What are you talking about? OP doesn't have GTX 550 Ti, and I never suggested him to get it. I just think that HD 6850 is not much of an upgrade from 8800 GT SLI.

Sunius said:
What's your budget? It will run on older PCIe slot, but I doubt HD6850 is much of an upgrade. You won't lose performance, but I doubt you'll see much difference.

So it all comes down to your budget, and before you tell that, please tell us the whole components of your system.


Hi Sunius, Asus P5N32-E SLI mobo, Q6600 quad at 2.4Ghz, 2 x Nvidia 8800GT, 4Gb DDR2 PC2-6400 (800MHz) DIMM, 800w power supply. I have a budget of £90, $140. Vista 64

einterlan said:
It will be perfectly fine. Very good cuad core procesor (its old i know but still good for gaming and other stuff).
And you have full X16 PCI-E, thats very good.

I have 2 pc in my home, one is a "first generation (old old old) phenom x4 (9850 BE 2.5GHZ), 3GB ram, ATI 5770 X-VAPOR 1gb gddr5 and games run perfectly in 1650x1050p 22" LG monitor, games like Crysis 2, WoW, and several MMORPG actual games, in 30 - 60 fps (depending config).

As i said, just catch the 560 (if you can) or try a lil bit less expensive 550Ti (its a competitor of my actual ATI 5770 1gb great card both).

Salute!
Emiliano.


Hi thanks again my system consists of the following Asus P5N32-E SLI mobo, Q6600 quad at 2.4Ghz, 2 x Nvidia 8800GT, 4Gb DDR2 PC2-6400 (800MHz) DIMM, 800w power supply. I have a budget of £90, $140. Vista 64
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I guess you're living in Europe? If so, the best you could get for £90 would be HD6750, which isn't faster than 2x 8800GT, and it would be a downgrade. What games are you trying to play and what results are you getting? I guess if you want to see a noticeable increase in performance you have to spend around £180. It's not worth upgrading with that budget, it would be the same as throwing your money to the trash bin.

Sunius said:
I guess you're living in Europe? If so, the best you could get for £90 would be HD6750, which isn't faster than 2x 8800GT, and it would be a downgrade. What games are you trying to play and what results are you getting? I guess if you want to see a noticeable increase in performance you have to spend around £180. It's not worth upgrading with that budget, it would be the same as throwing your money to the trash bin.


Can stretch to £130 which would get me a GTX 560, this would surely give me an increase in preformance. Am looking to play BF3 on high settings.
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