Video card quandary

[camel24hrs]

Originally Posted by Biggs

I know there are alot of us asking about what new PC parts to buy in preperation of CoDs launch, and I now find myself in a similar position.

Im looking to upgrade my 4850HD and I think i've narrowed it down to two Nvidia cards, the GTX470 and the GTX560ti... but i dont know which one is better.

The 560ti has a faster coreclock speed 850 vs 470's 607MHz and has a faster memoryclock speed, 4104 vs 3348. But the 470 has 1.28Gigs and the 560ti is only 1Gig.

the 560ti's $250, the 470 is 10 bucks more.

I have an aging Rig:
ASUS P5K Deluxe motherboard
Intel Core2 Quad OCed to 3.2Ghz
4gigs DDR2 Ram

I dont really want to go oer 300 USD for this upgrade. so let me know what you think.

I have a Asus P5k Deluxe with Q9550 oc to 3.7Ghz and I had a 9800gt and have been looking at cards too. I was looking at either a GTX570 or the GTX560ti. I found a GTX560ti with 2 gigs of ram at NewEgg for 279. And that is what I ordered. From what little info I have read the the 560 cards are very overclockable. A plus is it uses less watts than a 570. You ought to check it out. PALit Geforce GTX560ti with 2gig ram.

I am thinking even with our aging pcs we should still be able to handle this flight sim with a decent video card.

[Codex]

The 5xx series use less power and are quieter than the 4xx series. But the extra ram on the 470 will definitely help with CoD.

[Biggs]

Originally Posted by camel24hrs

I have a Asus P5k Deluxe with Q9550 oc to 3.7Ghz and I had a 9800gt and have been looking at cards too. I was looking at either a GTX570 or the GTX560ti. I found a GTX560ti with 2 gigs of ram at NewEgg for 279. And that is what I ordered. From what little info I have read the the 560 cards are very overclockable. A plus is it uses less watts than a 570. You ought to check it out. PALit Geforce GTX560ti with 2gig ram.

I am thinking even with our aging pcs we should still be able to handle this flight sim with a decent video card.

hmm the 2gig sounds really promising... and with OCing up to 950mhz it should be all the card I need.

not sure how much I trust PALit tho.. I've never heard of them before.

[camel24hrs]

Originally Posted by Biggs

hmm the 2gig sounds really promising... and with OCing up to 950mhz it should be all the card I need.

not sure how much I trust PALit tho.. I've never heard of them before.

So far the reviews of PALit cards at New Egg were all 5 stars except one 4 star and he was holding back on the fifth star till he has had it for awhile. They basicly have 3 PALit 560 cards. The 2 gig model, a 1gig and a 1gig that comes overclocked out the box. Also EVGA has several cards that look good too. I did a Google and found some reviews....The PALit 1 gig overclocked out to 975core and 1950shader and was stable. MSI has one that is 1000mhz out of the box.

I really liked the GTX570, but with my old Asus P5K system, I dont think I will see a noticible benifit from it over the 560. Really looking forward to getting the 560 tomorrow and trying it out.

[Biggs]

Nice, lemmie know what you think.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Biggs

Nice, lemmie know what you think.

Wait for the results ppl get with different cards.

[camel24hrs]

Originally Posted by swiss

Wait for the results ppl get with different cards.

Yeah Briggs, if you wait I will let you know how the setup works with COD since we basicly have the same system. I run Vista 32 bit, what are you running?

[Biggs]

Win7 64 bit

and my processors a bit older , its the Q6600 core2 Quad

[Thee_oddball]

Originally Posted by swiss

Wait for the results ppl get with different cards.

ditto, wait and see what results people get ,"a chain is as strong as its weakest link" I built a new system years ago and kept the old video card (fx5200) and the new backend doubled my FPS
I just built a new rig (to play bc2) and win7 is giving me a rating of 7.2/4 across the board with the exception of the HD (5.9) and it is a modest build
ASrock 870 extreme
Phenom X3 3.2ghz
kingston 1066 (4gb)
ATI 5750 (1gb)
Corsair 750 watt psu
win7 ultimate 64

I just reinstalled il2 (UP 2.01) And i am getting 225 avg fps at 1600x1200 rez with everything set to excellent .. what does that translate to? i hoping i can play CoD at high settings and a modest rez

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by Thee_oddball

ditto, wait and see what results people get ,"a chain is as strong as its weakest link" I built a new system years ago and kept the old video card (fx5200) and the new backend doubled my FPS
I just built a new rig (to play bc2) and win7 is giving me a rating of 7.2/4 across the board with the exception of the HD (5.9) and it is a modest build
ASrock 870 extreme
Phenom X3 3.2ghz
kingston 1066 (4gb)
ATI 5750 (1gb)
Corsair 750 watt psu
win7 ultimate 64

I just reinstalled il2 (UP 2.01) And i am getting 225 avg fps at 1600x1200 rez with everything set to excellent .. what does that translate to? i hoping i can play CoD at high settings and a modest rez

For the record I have a new pc as of a few months ago because my pc of 4 years got fried. Guess how? In the civ5 game menu which I forgot to quit and I fell asleep. Why? Because the devs never capped the max fps rate in the game menu...
Fail at probably 400fps in a menu (of civilization game...) fried my computer. It was embarrasing