I recently picked up Just Cause 2 and Metro 2033 in Steam sales and my current Geforce 8600GT video card really isn't cutting it.
I have been considering a GTX 460 for a while now but just started looking at 6850s and now I'm not so sure.
My system specs:
CPU: Intel Q6600
Motherboard: Gigabyte EP35-DS3P
RAM: 4G
PSU: Seasonic M12 550W
HDDs: 4 SATA hard drives of various sizes and ages.
I'm looking for something that runs very quiet, doesn't use a crazy amount of power and isn't complete overkill for my system. I'm not interested in running dual GPUs so differences in support for this don't bother me. I do run dual monitors and may add a third at some point but that's probably pretty unlikely.
So what should I go for? How much of a step up are these cards over say a 5770 and would I see the difference given my CPU? I've looked at a whole bunch of benchmarks but because I only research this stuff for a few weeks every few years when I'm in the market for a new card it's hard to relate the numbers to anything in the real world.
Thanks for your help.
I have been considering a GTX 460 for a while now but just started looking at 6850s and now I'm not so sure.
My system specs:
CPU: Intel Q6600
Motherboard: Gigabyte EP35-DS3P
RAM: 4G
PSU: Seasonic M12 550W
HDDs: 4 SATA hard drives of various sizes and ages.
I'm looking for something that runs very quiet, doesn't use a crazy amount of power and isn't complete overkill for my system. I'm not interested in running dual GPUs so differences in support for this don't bother me. I do run dual monitors and may add a third at some point but that's probably pretty unlikely.
So what should I go for? How much of a step up are these cards over say a 5770 and would I see the difference given my CPU? I've looked at a whole bunch of benchmarks but because I only research this stuff for a few weeks every few years when I'm in the market for a new card it's hard to relate the numbers to anything in the real world.
Thanks for your help.