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Upgrading Vid Card/Memory

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.:SenSui:. Spammer Hopeful Joined: Sun Mar 20, 2011 8:16 pm Posts: 393	Upgrading Vid Card/Memory Blah Blah Blah tons of these threads, but I got a ton of disposable $$ atm and was looking to upgrade my ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB and 6GB DDR3 1600MHz Corsair Dominator DHX Performance Series. A) Thought of upgrading vid card to Nvidia GeForce GTX 580, any reviews on this? Heard one of the cons is that it only has one GPU. B) For the memory should i stick with this type and just upgrade to 12gb? Go less to say 8? Or change both type and amount all together? Thanks for the help! _________________
Fri May 20, 2011 1:40 pm

xXiTz_OpTic_Sn1p3zXx Forum Newbie Joined: Sun May 08, 2011 3:15 pm Posts: 23	Re: Upgrading Vid Card/Memory For RAM you don't really need 8GB+ unless you work with computer animation/modelling/film editing software or music production and you need to load a lot of HQ sampling instances. I'd stick with 6GB if it's just for gaming. The 580 seems like a good card but honestly I'd wait for a price drop. It's pretty pricey but if you have the money you may as well right? lol
Fri May 20, 2011 1:54 pm

Bleep [n00b] Member Joined: Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:11 pm Posts: 1736 Location: Gainesville, Florida	Re: Upgrading Vid Card/Memory Dont upgrade its pointless. I have a 5870 and have no reason to upgrade but if you do happen to upgrade i dont mind crossfiring it if you wanna give it to me :P. Also! For gaming you will never use more than 6gbs, so far. Anything past that is really useful if your going to render. Also! 580 is a good card but its better off you crossfire 6870's or sli 560's and youll get better performance and probably cost you less. Tomshardware.com has really really useful reviews and if you have any questions feel free to PM me or add me on steam. I've helped a few nigs b4 haha ask hooker _________________ Rokatanski wrote: I F*CKING love you.
Fri May 20, 2011 9:09 pm

Cpt. Carrot Game Server Admin Joined: Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:57 am Posts: 904	Re: Upgrading Vid Card/Memory protip: go SSD (if you didn't yet). _________________
Fri May 20, 2011 9:33 pm

VipHagen [n00b] Member Joined: Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:23 pm Posts: 235 Location: San Antonio	Re: Upgrading Vid Card/Memory .:SenSui:. wrote: Blah Blah Blah tons of these threads, but I got a ton of disposable $$ atm and was looking to upgrade my ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB and 6GB DDR3 1600MHz Corsair Dominator DHX Performance Series. ! If you have tones of disposable income.. Why don't you buy me a new grafic card... Lol... _________________ It is what it is, nothing you can do about it! New Rule: The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a "decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n'-Low and one NutraSweet," ooh, you're a huge asshole.
Fri May 20, 2011 9:44 pm

Gman [HNIC] Stзamroller ω Joined: Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:00 pm Posts: 13453	Re: Upgrading Vid Card/Memory Invest it. Do you seriously need more than a 5870? My 5770 plays every game I've thrown at it @ 1080p, max settings. Quit wasting money. _________________ I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. -- Hunter S Thompson
Sat May 21, 2011 3:34 pm

Cpt. Carrot Game Server Admin Joined: Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:57 am Posts: 904	Re: Upgrading Vid Card/Memory Gman wrote: Invest it. Do you seriously need more than a 5870? My 5770 plays every game I've thrown at it @ 1080p, max settings. Quit wasting money. protip 2: you might consider investment into your RCT / n00b status by decreasing length of the yellow bar on donation meter _________________
Mon May 23, 2011 9:03 am

Hooker [n00b] Member Joined: Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:47 pm Posts: 2564	Re: Upgrading Vid Card/Memory Cpt. Carrot wrote: protip: go SSD (if you didn't yet). This is bad advice, especially for gaming. SSD has block design that slows down over extended reads. The only thing it's useful for is random reads, music, OS, movies would probably lag it out. Also: Last I checked the 580 was $520, the 570 was $350 when I got it. You're paying $170 more for maybe 2 fps. Worth it? I didn't think so. _________________
Mon May 23, 2011 10:59 am

.:SenSui:. Spammer Hopeful Joined: Sun Mar 20, 2011 8:16 pm Posts: 393	Re: Upgrading Vid Card/Memory Just got the OCZ Vertex 3 VTX3-25SAT3-120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD), nothing but glowing reviews and only $245 after gift card, so a pretty good deal to load games and then use my 1TB HD to mass store, though it was a good setup? _________________
Mon May 23, 2011 3:22 pm

Jihad [n00b] Member Joined: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:00 pm Posts: 447 Location: Clearwater, FL	Re: Upgrading Vid Card/Memory Hooker wrote: Cpt. Carrot wrote: protip: go SSD (if you didn't yet). This is bad advice, especially for gaming. SSD has block design that slows down over extended reads. The only thing it's useful for is random reads, music, OS, movies would probably lag it out. Also: Last I checked the 580 was $520, the 570 was $350 when I got it. You're paying $170 more for maybe 2 fps. Worth it? I didn't think so. I dunno guy, I love my SSD, wish I had another one to be honest. _________________ The Chicago Bears are the best NFL team in NFL History...dont believe me, check the NFL hall of fame and see how many players are from the Bears. Seems like someone from our d goes to the pro bowl yearly... prove me wrong.
Mon May 23, 2011 7:03 pm

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