recommend me a GFX card

interesting: bought my graphic card I'd say two years ago and it is still in the top 5 in tomshardware ranking ... do we reach a point where there will be no or only minor performance increase due to being close to what is possible with today's technology?

[klem]

Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Stormcrow

interesting: bought my graphic card I'd say two years ago and it is still in the top 5 in tomshardware ranking ... do we reach a point where there will be no or only minor performance increase due to being close to what is possible with today's technology?

I think "today's technology" is probably the point.

I've no doubt that one day people will be running 160,000 x 100,000 resolution at 100fps giving almost Mk1 eyeball imagery. In fact "new technology" may not even use the concept of 'resolution'. Who'd have believed in the 1980s when Bill Gates came up with DOS that we'd end up where we are now.

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Stormcrow

interesting: bought my graphic card I'd say two years ago and it is still in the top 5 in tomshardware ranking ... do we reach a point where there will be no or only minor performance increase due to being close to what is possible with today's technology?

From the same GFX card comparison link

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ce,3042-7.html

"You can use this hierarchy to compare the pricing between two cards, to see which one is a better deal,
and also to determine if an upgrade is worthwhile.
I don’t recommend upgrading your graphics card unless the replacement card is at least three tiers higher.
Otherwise, the upgrade is somewhat parallel and you may not notice a worthwhile difference in performance."

The technology does reach a point but manufacturers still need to keep selling, so GFX cards are always being made to make sales,
the point is for the consumer the above statements 3 tier recommendation, but there's always people with money to burn so new
CPU GPU Ram Mobo every year is normal for them.
I use a 3 year cycle of replacement/upgrade then after 4-5 years a complete new high end system.




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[klem]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

From the same GFX card comparison link

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ce,3042-7.html

"You can use this hierarchy to compare the pricing between two cards, to see which one is a better deal,
and also to determine if an upgrade is worthwhile.
I don’t recommend upgrading your graphics card unless the replacement card is at least three tiers higher.
Otherwise, the upgrade is somewhat parallel and you may not notice a worthwhile difference in performance."

The technology does reach a point but manufacturers still need to keep selling, so GFX cards are always being made to make sales,
the point is for the consumer the above statements 3 tier recommendation, but there's always people with money to burn so new
CPU GPU Ram Mobo every year is normal for them, I use a 3 year cycle of replacement/upgrade then after 4-5 years a complete new system.

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The only point I would make is if, for example, you are considering a GTX570 be aware that they come with more memory now than my 1.28Gb. My card hits 1.2Gb usage in CoD and would probably use more if I had it. I think more memory is worth the stretch.

[rhinomonkey]

Thanks for all the help guys. I've upped my budget a bit (will be eating baked beans and pasta for the rest of the month) and have gone for Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB GDDR5. Hopefully it will run COD at fairly high settings with a good FPS

[SIDWULF]

Great choice...the only reason i went with the 6950 is because it has 2GB and i was reading on the internet that alot of games go over 1GB VRAM usage and the 570 with 2GB was much too expensive (compared to the 1.2GB 570). In that price range nothing compares to the 6950, its a great card.

Expect max setting @ 1920x1080 but withh no aa, trees low, building low for competitive play. Who needs trees or aa anyways...turn them off in all games, thats what i do. ATI cards are kinda slow with AA in some games currently.

[AKA_Tenn]

I use an GTX570HD 2.5GB and cliffs of dover with maxed graphics uses 2.2GB vram on 1920x1080... battlefield 3 uses 1.6GB... so there's games that use that much