- Ok, my other friend got a 5770 and it plays well @ 1080p resolution for most of the game @ med-high settings. 6770 is minor improvement with tessellation/hdmi 4.1a. So it should perform about the same. Im sure its gonna play fine at medium setting tho.
- I know, but Its my old PoS PSU. It...
This is the max he can go, budget wise. He likes to keep his computer for years. Playing games but nothing hardcore here. Source games, Spore, RTS, Skyrim, Fable 1/3 etc. And playing blu-rays, All on a 1920x1080 monitor.
These are parts I found locally, in Canada, with their current price...
Great. Now I just realised that my PSU got a problem. Whining at load crazy loud.
Might gonna finally get a damn Corsair HX 750Watt. at 129$ special.
Sigh.
I went with Asus Direct CU II 570 GTX.
EVGA was out of my price range locally. Asus had rebate + mir. I live in Canada btw.
I had very good experience with Asus for Warranty. I shipped them my 8800GT when it broke via Express mail. I received it the same week via Express mail back. 3...
I found the card 570 gtx @ 300$ after mir.
Its Asus triple slot one. Its still a 70$+tx difference tho.
Edit: I just pushed it at 3.8Ghz 52.5C Stable Prime95. with Zalman CNPS10X Performa
Setup is in my Signature.
I used my 8800GT for quite a long time now. I remembered when I paid 279.99$ for it. :p
Now I'd like an Upgrade.
Games I play are Fallout 3, Fable 3, BFBC2, GTA IV.
Im also gonna get Skyrim when it comes out and few other games.
Card must last like the...