try to choose a graphics card

mickey megabyte said:

you won't regret getting the 4890, especially looking at your screen res... :)

...but then look at the rest of the specs.

It's a great card, but with the rest of the specs I wouldn't expect miracles tbh

If you want to play crysis you would need to upgrade that cpu first, thats my suggestion - you can get decent dual core cpu's like the e5200 that overclock very well quite cheap.

I have a 4890 and i love it, runs everything i want at high details and overclocks decently.

Edit: hopefully your motherboard is lga775 and you can upgrade to a c2d or pentium dual core with a bios update, pentium dual core with 800mhz fsb is more likely with that old of a cpu. (something like e21xx, e2200 which overclock to 3ghz with decent cooling)

Post your motherboard model # and i'll check it out for you :)

Double Edit: If you have a Compaq SR2011WM like in your sig then it has the ecs rc410-m motherboard which only supports up to pentium D dual core cpus so you would need a new m/b as well - though you could reuse the ram it would probably be very slow ram and need replacing eventually as well.

your RAM & CPU will need upgrading once you buy any of the listed cards above....


the faster card will create a performance bottleneck with the rest of your components..

for 1920x1200 the 4890 sings at that res, but your gonna need a new CPU to properly open up that card...

treachery said:

i remember our convo in the pms skunksmash, and i should update my spec list because i took your advice skunksmash and i saved up and now im building a whole new rig, i just needed help choosing the graphics card, didnt know witch one i should pic, if you guys want i can post the spec of the new pc, ordering the parts this weekend

please do......

once we have the new component list we'll be able to properly suggest a card for ya....

4870HDx2 is very well-priced and will last for a very solid 3 years.

Stick with the 4890 if it still falls within your budget.

ATI are releasing their next generation of 58XX cards in about a month or so, so the 48XX series should become a little cheaper if you can afford to wait a little longer.