Upgrading from a Radeon 6770 HD

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• treysmooth Member UncommonPosts: 648

  February 2012

  Just hold on to what you have, for the money you want to spend I'd just wait considering that a 6870(not a giant upgrade by any stretch of the imagination is around 210 dollars I don't see you really getting your monies worth.  Personally I used to do upgrades like that because I was impatient and always thought I could use just a bit more power but if you can run all these games on high that are out you should be fine at least another year.
• jusomdude Member RarePosts: 2,706

  February 2012

  Yeah, unless you get a 79x0, it's not even worth upgrading.

  Those are going for 400+

   

  My 4870 relic still runs everything I throw at it on med to high settings.
• Quizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,499

  February 2012

  I'm also going to advise against upgrading.  You'll get both better performance and a cheaper total price if you buy a high end card and keep it for 3-4 years than if you buy a mid-range card and replace it with another mid-range card every single year.  Considering that your processor was replaced (by the Core i7-870) several months before the Radeon HD 5770 was renamed a 6770, I'm guessing that you've already replaced your video card once, too, in a system that isn't very old.

  If you want to use up your entire budget, then a GeForce GTX 560 Ti is about twice as fast as what you have now, and a Radeon HD 6950 is a little faster yet.

  Also, a Core i7-860 has four cores, not eight.  Four cores plus hyperthreading isn't the same as eight real cores.

  If you just have the itch to upgrade something, then you might want to try getting a good SSD if you don't already have one.
• Sheista Member UncommonPosts: 1,203

  February 2012

  If anything, just buy a second one and Crossfire them.
• select20 Member Posts: 130

  February 2012

  
  Originally posted by Quizzical

  I'm also going to advise against upgrading.  You'll get both better performance and a cheaper total price if you buy a high end card and keep it for 3-4 years than if you buy a mid-range card and replace it with another mid-range card every single year.  Considering that your processor was replaced (by the Core i7-870) several months before the Radeon HD 5770 was renamed a 6770, I'm guessing that you've already replaced your video card once, too, in a system that isn't very old.

  If you want to use up your entire budget, then a GeForce GTX 560 Ti is about twice as fast as what you have now, and a Radeon HD 6950 is a little faster yet.

  Also, a Core i7-860 has four cores, not eight.  Four cores plus hyperthreading isn't the same as eight real cores.

  If you just have the itch to upgrade something, then you might want to try getting a good SSD if you don't already have one.

  Yeah, ok about the 8 cores. I didn't know that, I only put 8 cores because when I ran DXDIAG that's what it said. I'm not a PC guru by any means. My knowledge doesn't go much further than asking questions about easy upgrades, then buying it and installing it. SSD  sounds like a good idea, then just putting my games onto it. Does that mke a big difference?

  "Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it."
• select20 Member Posts: 130

  February 2012

  
  Originally posted by Sheista

  If anything, just buy a second one and Crossfire them.

  Yeah, I actually had a friend give me a 5770 since he upgraded to a 560ti. I was excited, opened everything up and while my motherboard supports Crossfiring, the cards didn't fit into the slots side by side because they were too thick. I was a llittle peeved, but it is what it is.

  I'll hold out on gettting a new GPU then, thanks so much for the advice folks. Nice to have good honest feedback. I'll look into getting an SSD.

  "Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it."