Depends on the game and your screen resolution. 18.5" is not a very meaningful value.

The HD 5750 would be a significant step forward in performance and more likely to give you what you want. The 512MB variants can be had for around RM 400.

PCI-Ex's standard is a maximum of 300W per card. This is the primary reason that the HD 5970, despite using two HD 5870 chips, performs less than a dual HD 5870; they had to downclock the HD 5970 in order to comply with the spec.

ongdandy, XP only supports up to 9. DX 10 and 11 is in Win7.

For 1280 x 1024, HD 5670 will be fine.

Playing single player SC2 on Win XP with a 1920x1200 monitor, the HD 5670 is smooth at low quality graphics, and a little bit jerky on medium quality and it sometimes complains about memory issues (not sure what) but is playable. With multi-player, the game can get badly lagged when there are a lot of units, even at low quality graphics - not sure if it a GPU, CPU or network problem.

I think occasionally some may differ in the output connectors.

A HD 5670 512 MB, a HD 5750 512 MB or a second-hand card.

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Added on September 8, 2010, 3:33 pmWe need more HD 6xxx rumours. XD

This post has been edited by everling: Sep 8 2010, 03:33 PM

I read from one of the HD 6xxx links above about the cards being available on the 25th of October. I hope that is true. Better still, have the entire low to mid-ranged cards available on that day.

There are older Nvidia drivers that didn't had that "feature". The latest one was a few months ago old driver.

It would be nice if AMD can do to Nvidia like what Intel has been doing to AMD. Staying a whole generation ahead.

This post has been edited by everling: Sep 8 2010, 09:37 PM

Quote from an old post of mine.

Nvidia would love to throw in a 2048-bit GPU this year, as it would certainly blow ATI out of the water. Except for the little fact that it'll cost them [insert huge number]% more to R&D and who knows how many more problems having such a wide bus would incur.

Keep in mind that the bit isn't some imaginary number. Somebody needs to draw them and use them!

Well, here's a dissenter. I don't think it's going to happen.

The prices will drop, but I don't expect it to drop drastically. In any case, buying older hardware with old problems doesn't really appeal. I mean, who in their right minds would buy a hot HD 4850 or HD 4870 when you have newer, more powerful and more cooler HD 5850 and HD 5870?

This post has been edited by everling: Sep 14 2010, 09:32 PM

The problem with cheap monitors is that they lack flexibility. The S2409 can't do portrait mode, so you will always be stuck with a very wide view. The U2311H would be a lot more flexible, as you can better adjust the monitors to your liking.

As for worth, depending on a lot of factors, maybe.

But if you are on a tight budget and don't mind waiting another long year, I think the HD 7XXX might be more worth it, as it will also have a process shrink. If you want more bang for your bucks, buy the HD 6870 asap if it looks reasonable.

This post has been edited by everling: Sep 15 2010, 11:34 AM

You are correct. Nvidia has replaced the official "buggy" 257.15 drivers with a "fixed" one.

The HD 5670 will be several times more powerful than the old HD 2400. Have fun.

The images? If you're not gaming on that machine, any card lower than HD 5670 or the HD 4670 and lower will do.

http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/Di...harp-u3011.aspx



24" is rather cramped for me now...

The 6 series isn't going to double performance unless they nearly double everything.

When is Nvidia's 28nm chips coming out? If it is sometime in the next six months, AMD will be in trouble. Unless the 6 series isn't a full fledge series and more of a stopgap one and they intend to bring out the 7 series also within the next six months instead of Q4 2011.

Thanks.

Most of Nvidia's initial difficulties should have been eliminated already, they do have a working Fermi now, so I expect them to be more timely on their next release. But 'second half' spans both Q3 and Q4, so the HD 7000 series might be not far behind, if at all.

Hopefully the 28nm node will be a lot more smoother than the 40nm node was.

Optimisation is a really time consuming process. What normally takes a year to make can take two years to make if you also want to seriously optimise it.

You can finish SC2 single player campaign at 1920x1200 on the HD 5670. As for M2TW, I normally play it at 1280x800. The performance can really hurt when the battlefield is in a forest.

Nvidia's next generation 28nm cards will be out in the second half of 2011. Which will coincide with ATI releasing their 28nm HD 7000 series in the second half of 2011 as well.

Unless Nvidia has a surprise in store in the coming months or the HD 6000 series has some serious fault, I think it is safe to say that Nvidia is boned yet again for the third time running (HD 4000, HD 5000 and now the upcoming HD 6000).