Is the xfx 6870 1gb good enough to be played on 1680 x 1050 resolution?
Is the xfx 6870 1gb good enough to be played on 1680 x 1050 resolution?
My HD5850 1GB seems fine and the HD6870 1GB is slightly faster.
What is your budget and what are the rest of the specifications of your computer??
£750
i5 2500K/3570K
Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H,
kuhler 620
corsair 8gb vengenace 1600mhz
cx 600 corsair psu
nzxt tempest elite 410
crucial m4 128gb
seagate 1tb barracuda green
i have one and it seems to run fine on 1920*1080. i am running medium - high settings with Anti Aliasing and V Sync turned off. Temps go to about 75 deg in some games. But other than that never had any issues with it. Hope it helps
What are the main games you will be playing?
If you want decent FPS for the more complex DX11 games then you might want to look at a 2GB VRAM 7850 or soon Nvidia 660 1.5GB. basically a £150-200 GPU 28nm with all the modern stuff thrown in. If you play Minecraft and TF2 and less demanding titles a 1GB 40nm card is fine you just may have to 'tweak' demanding games for the FPS count you desire.
2500k is brilliant 6870 is ok-good depending on games. The higher vram cards allow more mods in Skyrim and higher textures-shadows etc so as always you do get what you pay for right now.
If you have the extra budget,the HD7850 2GB is worth it especially with its decent overclocking abilities,and you can get an HD6950 2GB for around £160 delivered if you cannot stretch to an HD7850 2GB. The GTX560TI 448 is also a good card in a similar price range. With your budget it should be doable.
However,it does not mean that cards in a lower performance bracket and incapable of only running ancient games.
My HD5850 1GB can run Metro2033 on DX11 high settings and Crysis2 on DX11 high settings using the MaLDoHD high resolution pack at 1680X1050 at stock clockspeeds(it is pre-overclocked card with 40MHZ higher core clockspeed). Another mate has a similar card and can run Skyrim fine at 1920X1080 on high settings with lower levels of AA and AF,so at 1680X1050 you will be fine. Games such as Hard Reset and Mass Effect 3 run fine too. An HD6870 1GB will be quicker though.
The newer cards will have more in the performance bank for future titles though,so you need to think whether spending the extra £30 to £50 is worth it for you.
BTW,if you intend to play TF2 or Minecraft,an HD6770 would be more than enough IMHO.
Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 11-05-2012 at 07:02 PM.
I'm going to go out on a limb, and say that the 6870 is definitely fast enough for that resolution.
I'm saying that because I have a 6850, and playing Battlefield 3 (the demo anyway) at 1920 x 1080 was very smooth, even though I didnt have all visual effects to 100%.
Diablo III demo was perfect to my eyes.
Battlefield Bad Company 2 & Civ 5 (which I play quite a bit) are both 100% perfect at 1920 x 1080.
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You can get a sapphire 6950 2gb for £150 just now. Worth a bit extra maybe. You could save £30 on your case by getting a Zalman z9 plus instead. Plus do you need watercooling for a 2500k? I have it at 4.5Ghz and temp never go above 46. 57 when benching. Save a bit there with a hyper 212 evo plus from fleabay. £28 last I checked
I would agree even cheaper o2 cooling is fine for 2500k and consider 2GB VRAM cards for 1050p and above if you have the budget as many games eat VRAM now and will allow extra goodies like HD textures or more mods if you have the VRAM. It's easy to tweak features to gives your shaders-cores a break and not always ruin the image quality not having enough VRAM can really nerf image quality and can't be fixed without changing cards adding RAM to your PC is idiot proof in the way adding VRAM isn't, unless you buy a new GPU. Also the 2GB + GPu's are always worth more on resale when your done with them in the way 1GB cards are not.
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