I have a gateway GT5674 and I just bought a ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express Graphics Car
here is my current CPU
AMD Phenom 9500 quad-core processor
As of right now I cant really play any games, just World of Warcraft of low settings. When I put in this new Graphics card how much improvement will I get and could you give me an example of what game I could play that would be pushing its limits(but still playable). I don't know all that much about CPU's or Graphics cards so please forgive me if I don't know what Im talking about.
I appreciate your time,
thanks in advanced!
Update:I understand that the processor is old but It's a little confusing having half the people say its fine and the other half saying you need to upgrade it. In the end if it is insufficient could I still get by through low settings?
Update 3:And thanks for the reminder, I'm planning on having to upgrade the power supply. I doubt it is that expensive so no problem there.
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You will be able to run Crysis on High in 1080p, Crysis: Warhead at Enthusiast Settings in 1080p (except Motion Blur, which I keep off because it's a resource hog), and Metro 2033 at Very High with Tessellation ON in 1080p and get decent performance in all three. Those games I listed are three of the most graphically intensive games in existence. Your CPU might slow down you graphics card so consider an upgrade in the future if you have the money. However, you'll max out most games out there and most games tend to be graphics card hungry so you've got a good computer.
I wouldn't worry about the processor right now. Once you get the 5770 in it, if it still bottleneck because of processor (which I doubt) you can always upgrade later.
I am mostly concerned by your power supply. The 5770 is a 108 watt hungry beast. The minimum recommended PS is a 500 watt.
The 5770 is one of the finest cards I have ever owned. It has yet to studder on any game I thrown at it. You made a fine choice.
Make sure to head to ATI site to get the latest drivers. Don't use the old ones off the CD, hard telling how old they are
I'd say even on each- opt for an ATI snap shots card with approximately 1gb of vRAM that's mostly low-cost and opt for a processor thats both two.4ghz twin middle or i would advocate two.0ghz+ quad middle
your graphics card is amazing. i have a 5570 and can run any games on max like MW2, and high on battlefield BC2. Your processor needs a bit more work its at 2.2ghz and looking on the reviews its really not that fast. i have a intel 2.82ghz w/ 5570 i think you need something over 3.0ghz if you want to run it smoothly and somewhere around 500W PSU if you dont want your computer to overheat
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safe to say you can pretty much play anything you throw at it, its a mid -high range card only beaten by two other cards 5850 and 5870 of course thats last generations series gpu.
dont expect to play very high resolution, 3 screens?