Need help deciding

[tarik3001]

Hello

I am in need of a new video card but not sure if I should get another one of what I have now or upgrade. I currently have an ATI HD 5850. I need more power because when i try to stream games, I get very laggy performance. I get around 10-25 fps streaming 4v4 starcraft games on lowest settings. If I was to upgrade I wouldn't spend more than 250 on a new card.

Thanks!

Mainboard : Gigabyte P55-USB3
Chipset : Intel P55
Processor : Intel Core i5 750 @ 2666MHz
Physical Memory : 4096MB (2 x 2048 DDR3-SDRAM )
Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
Hard Disk : KINGSTON SV100S264G ATA Device (64GB)
Hard Disk : SAMSUNG HD502HJ ATA Device (500GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : ASUS DRW-24B1ST
CD-Rom Drive : DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device
Monitor Type : LG Electronics E2350 - 23 inches
Monitor Type : Samsung SyncMaster - 23 inches
Network Card : Realtek Semiconductor RTL8168/8111 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Operating System : Windows 7 Ultimate Professional Media Center 6.01.7601 Service Pack 1 (64-bit)
DirectX : Version 11.00
Windows Performance Index : 6.7 on 7.9

 

[Frakk]

Hello

I am in need of a new video card but not sure if I should get another one of what I have now or upgrade. I currently have an ATI HD 5850. I need more power because when i try to stream games, I get very laggy performance. I get around 10-25 fps streaming 4v4 starcraft games on lowest settings. If I was to upgrade I wouldn't spend more than 250 on a new card.

Welcome to the form.

This is an international forum, it would help if we know what currency your 250 was?

To give you an idea, the follwing performance increase on listed cards is

GTX 560ti about 5%
ATI / AMD 7870 about 35%
ATI / AMD 7950 about 60%
ATI / AMD 7970 about 90%
GTX 680 about 100%

(roughly)

 

[tarik3001]

Thanks! It's us dollars

 

[Frakk]

Thanks! It's us dollars

For that money your best bet is a 7850

7850 vs 5850 its about 20% up on what you have, the problem is a 5850 is already a fairly powerful card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161406

I have the same problem trying to out do my 5770 by a good margin and not spending 100's of £

 

[TURBOLARRY39]

you can pick up a asus hd7870 radeon amd card 2 gig on board for like $225.00 now days. and it is a monster. im running one killer graphics and very easily overclocked with asus tweak utility that comes with it. I bought mine at microcenter. But you can get it about anywher around same price.i run starcraft at 55fps no problem at all

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Edit: TURBOLARRY39, this thread was over a year old.