hyralux Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Was Looking into upgrading my 4870 512mb 256bit HD radeon graphics card, I've had it for quite some time and figured I would throw some cash in to get something else. Anyone have any suggestions? Looking for something that can run Skyrim on ultra without trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Your 4870 has trouble? My 4890 ran it really well.... Running a 6850 now, it is pretty smooth as well. What's the rest of your system look like? How much ya willing to spend, and what country are you in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thandal Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Ummm, guys? There's a whole "Hardware and software discussion" for this sort of thing. In fact, moving this thread there now... :whistling: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoofhearted4 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 whats your budget? a GTX 560Ti is one of the best bang for your buck cards out there. for roughly the same price, there is the Radeon 7850. which is AMDs newest generation of GPUs. idk the specifics between the two, i never really looked at too many benchmarks, but for ~$250 they are great cards to get. if you wanna invest more, then the 7950 would be a great choice. if you wanna invest less, then maybe the 550Ti? or something like a 480 still runs great however it gets hot and loud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyralux Posted June 28, 2012 Author Share Posted June 28, 2012 (edited) @Thandal Sorry mate, didn't see it. @The rest of you - I'm running on ultra at an average of about 30fps with low shadow quality, of course I'm using quite a few texture packs with an enb. It's strange, but when I get in combat with anything my fps remarkably starts slowing down a bit and my game actually starts freezing up a bit. I went back to all of the retexture mods and got a lower res version for the trees and landscape and that helped quite a bit, but I want to be able to run it really "well" (Without the spikes in frame rates). I've got about 300-400 dollars to spend. I noticed my graphics card's memory is at 512mb, would making it a 2gb be a considerable performace boost? I'm in the Us running with my 4870, 4gigs of ram on a quad core processor, Asus m3a32-mvp-Deluxe motherboard, 1 terabyte hardrive and a 750w corsair psu Edited June 28, 2012 by hyralux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoofhearted4 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 yea. grabbing 2gb will definitely help. all those texture packs use a good chunk of RAM. with that price range, id grab a 7950. it however will be right at the top of your $400 limit. otherwise maybe grab a 7870 which is around $340. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyralux Posted June 29, 2012 Author Share Posted June 29, 2012 yea. grabbing 2gb will definitely help. all those texture packs use a good chunk of RAM. with that price range, id grab a 7950. it however will be right at the top of your $400 limit. otherwise maybe grab a 7870 which is around $340. Awesome do you think It would be compatible with my mobo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoofhearted4 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 yea. you should be fine. your mobo has PCIe x16 slots so i mean you shouldnt have any problem. though im not sure if it goes deeper then that. however, seeing as you have an old mobo means you have an old CPU. albeit it a quad core one. on a game like Skyrim, the CPU quickly becomes the bottleneck, and i fear that with a GPU like this, your CPU may become the bottle cap. if you want to consider a new mobo/CPU youd be looking at anywhere from maybe $175 the cheapest to around $350 the most expensive. you can always grab the GPU first. and that will obviously help. but if you still dont get the performance you expect, then you know itll be the CPU you need to change out. (which will also mean grabbing new RAM since you only have DDR2 RAM. but 8gb RAM is only $40) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyralux Posted June 29, 2012 Author Share Posted June 29, 2012 (edited) Okay wow haha, upgrading will be pretty expensive. So I should prolly upgrade my mobo/processor first along with ddr3 ram. Then get my graphics card later. Hopefully my new mobo will be compatible with my old gpu Any recommendations on the mobo and processor? Edited June 29, 2012 by hyralux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vecna6667 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Right now the best Performance to price Ratio Graphics card is the Radeon HD 7850 in my opinion. nVidia doesn't have a current card to match it in that price range($200 to $300) at this moment and it performs close to the GTX 580. The Radeon HD 7900 cards have gotten a recent boost with AMD's latest 12.7 beta drivers to pull even with the GTX 670 and 680 depending on the game but nVidia has the clear edge at the $400+ price point unless GPU computing is involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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