Some upgrade advice please?

[startrekmike]

Okay, so I installed Cliffs of Dover with full knowledge that it was probably not going to be a great experience in terms of framerate on my aging machine but I have come to a place where I can upgrade my graphics card in hopes that things will improve a bit.

So here are my specs, I can't upgrade anything else for the time being (not sure when that will change due to being unemployed at the moment in a state where employment is a luxury and good employment is nearly impossible, so I already feel poor enough as it is).

AMD 9950 Black edition 2.6 Quad core (I will overclock to 3Ggz when I can get my hands on a better cooler, until then, it is what I got.)

8 Gigs of ram

Geforce 9800gt 512MB (I know, I know, it is way past it's prime).


So I have been looking at every possible card that I can afford at this moment, right now I am looking at the AMD Radeon HD 7770 with 2 GB's of ram, it is about $170(including shipping) on newegg and frankly, that is as high as I can go, not a dollar more.

Would this work okay in conjunction with my existing specs? Keep in mind, I don't run anything past 1280x1024 resolution due to my monitor and I am very happy with that, I don't run multiple monitors because I use head tracking and I don't really want to run it maxed out, I just want the game to look good, not amazing but I would like some ground detail beyond the blurry green and brown mess that I see now.

Again, I am not looking to run at 1080p resolution with maxed out settings in the game, I just am looking at something that will run at 1280x1024 with high to medium settings.


Does this card offer what I need?