So, at the moment I have a ATI Sapphire HD 3870 512mb, and it's getting on a bit now, I've had it since about a week after it came out.
My question is, would my processor (Intel C2D E7400 2.8GHz) be okay for say, a 5850?
Rest of my specs:
Windows XP SP3 (Maybe Windows 7 soon.)
Gigabyte EP35-DS4
Corsair XMS2 1GBx2 DDR2 800Mhz
My motherboard supports Crossfire, so I'd like to stick to ATI just incase you try and recommend any other cards.
That should be fine for a 5850
Maybe go a little lower just to be sure, but I'm 90% sure that'll do fine
I'm pretty positive it should be fine, maybe a slight overclock.
It should work fine.
If required you can try overclocking like suggested above.
I'd suggest you get Windows 7 64 bit before you consider getting that 5850, since thanks to DX9 and 32 bit you'd need to use about 1 GB of your system RAM for pageing, which means 1 GB is left for games.
Upgrading to 4 GB of RAM can help there too, but you'll only be able to use 3 GB with 32 bit anything.
5850 is a wonderous card, and will run anything you throw at it >:D
It really depends on what games you'll be playing. There are quite a lot cpu hungry games out these days, but most shouldn't be bottlenecked too much by your cpu. Overclocking would certainly help.
edit: You can also do a little test to see if your cpu is good enough.
Try running a few games at highest possible graphical settings (gpu will be the bottleneck in most cases), then again at lowest settings (cpu bottleneck) and see how big the framerate differences are.
The 5850 should probably be able to produce at least 2x higher framerates than 3870 at same settings, so make sure your cpu is up to that.
Should be able to play all games except GTA4
[QUOTE=Djessey;20360533]Should be able to play all games except GTA4[/QUOTE]
HE can play gta IV.
[QUOTE=gol4z03;20361056]HE can play gta IV.[/QUOTE]
I DO play gta IV. Runs smoothly with the shadows on low/off.
Thanks for the help guys.
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