Best recommened Graphics card

[Argonaut110]

Hi,
I'm looking to play Cliffs of Dover on high/max(ambitious but rubbish i'm assuming sadly...) settings. Sadly, my Dell Dimension 9200 came with a Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX, and that just isn't good enough.
So what replacement card should I get to play this game on high/max settings? My budget is £0-80, the card has to be 1GB or above and my PSU is 375 Watts, although I have heard 400 watt cards can run on it. I was looking at an ATi Radeon 6770 and a GeForce GTX 550, but if there's any better cards out there please let me know or pick the best one out of those two. Thanks!

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*I will also be playing FSX, KSP and Il-2 1946 and will genrally use this PC as a gaming machine, so try and recommend a card for overall use and not just Il-2 CoD.

*I also found a list of cards that will fit inside my machine. Please can anybody tell which is the best out of these PLUS which will set me up for the future:
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Radeon HD 7770
Radeon HD 7750
Radeon HD 6850
Radeon HD 6770
Radeon HD 6750

[pupo162]

fortunatly for you, i have tested both those cards 550 and 6770, with a i5 2500k and a 8Gb DDR3 system.... unfortonatly neither one of those cards pulled a satisfactory result, they both stick to very good fps in lower settings (70+fps easely with medium/low shadows off) but stutters too much to be playable.

Anyway, the 550 is very much superior to the 6770.

For OVERRAL use, i can highly recommend the 550 for NOW. this card can run BF3 on high/ultra settings with no problems, and il2 1946 runs easily.

6770 will settle for similar performance to the 550, with graphics on medium in BF3, and will have no problem with 1946.

FOR COD use, i wouldnt recommend anything below the 560, and a 2GB card seeems to be mandatory. SO with that budget... i dotn think yo ucan pull it.

Pheraps a 2gb version of the 6850 is the best you can get, with will probably be worst on OVERRAL than the 550, but ti will be better for COD due to the 2 gb memory

[Argonaut110]

D:
Damn. Was looking forward to playing this...
What would be the cheapest card that would play Il-2: CoD well then?

[pupo162]

Originally Posted by Argonaut110

D:
Damn. Was looking forward to playing this...
What would be the cheapest card that would play Il-2: CoD well then?

I edidted my post.... i think a 2 gb version of the 6850 would pull it off.

otherwise check for anything better than a 560 or a 7850, 2 GB versions should be a priority! OS you are looking at 200 euro GPU (150£ ?) other than that, you will need a good CPU and Memory too :S.... so i dont no... you ar efacing a 500 euro upgrade at least.

[Argonaut110]

But would it fit inside my machine and would it work on a 375 watt power supply? ( I can't afford both)

[pupo162]

i dont know.

anyway waht are your other specs? i think that even with a new GPU, you wont be able too pull it off with your current machine ...

[Argonaut110]

The 6850 is...slightly outdated, but what would be the cheapest card to run it at a high/medium setting? (excluding the card list)

[Argonaut110]

My specs? uuuhhh....
*coughcough I haven't powered the machine up yet coughcoguchgough*
my video cable comes on Monday/ Tuesday. But the machine's previous owner has probably modded it (I won't mention who) to become better, But I can tell you it's Intel Core Duo 2 and runs XP/ Vista (A sticker on the front says XP, a sticker ontop says Vista...WHY U NO PICK ONE OS) and probably has 4GB RAM. Maybe.I can get back to you as soon as I power it up. Stay tuned. Please.

[pupo162]

Originally Posted by Argonaut110

My specs? uuuhhh....
*coughcough I haven't powered the machine up yet coughcoguchgough*
my video cable comes on Monday/ Tuesday. But the machine's previous owner has probably modded it (I won't mention who) to become better, But I can tell you it's Intel Core Duo 2 and runs XP/ Vista (A sticker on the front says XP, a sticker ontop says Vista...WHY U NO PICK ONE OS) and probably has 4GB RAM. Maybe.I can get back to you as soon as I power it up. Stay tuned. Please.

Sorry mate... not goign to pull it off. You will just need to invest at least some 700 euros in a new pc. Even with the best GPU possible, your CPU/RAM will bottlenexk your preformance.

you will need a quad core... and not just any quadcore, an i5 2500k ist the best choice, and 6-8 GB of RAM, DDR3.

Sorry, but buying a GPU and COd for that PC would just be a frustration pot.

[Argonaut110]

Bledd-*Head-desk* the system I get give and it won't cut the mustard... And I can't buy a new machine because..well..I'm not rich(Sadly).Anyway thanks for your help, I think I was a litttttttttle too ambitious with everything. BUT could you recommend me a graphics card that would sort me out for the future (1GB/2GB/3GB+) even if I can't play CoD? Also I hope Il-2 1946 still has a community because I think I'll have to settle with that as my Combat game..Le sigh..