Could a new graphics card solve my fps issues?

[Deleted]

Hi folks,

I recently upgraded some of my computers hardware but had to neglect my graphics card because I ran short of cash.
This is my current system:

Asrock B75 PRO3-M Mainboard
Intel Core i5-3570 (3,4 GHz)
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
8 GB Kingston DD3 RAM (1600 MHz)
250 GB SSD
1 TB HDD

I'm currently running Windows 7 Ultimate, WoW and Diablo 3 from the SSD with WoW-settings mostly on low with a few on good, but nothing close to ultra. I have fps issues (~10 fps) in raids, when cruising through Pandarias forests like Krasarang or when there is a lot of steam to be displayed. Moving or changing the camera angle sometimes feels horribly slow and everything but fluent.
Diablo 3 starts to lag when there are 20+ enemies on screen... so basically all the time

So my question is: Could a new graphics card solve these issues?
If yes: Which one would be a good deal with a budget of ~150€? I'd like to buy from Amazon EU.
If no: What may be the cause of the described issues? Maybe drivers? I installed the latest Catalyst drivers.

Thanks in advance!

- Vayar

[vesseblah]

Yes. Radeon 2900XT is from 2007 and can be considered to be worthless trash today.

What country you live in, maybe there are better places to buy than Amazon? 150€ sounds like Radeon 7850 would be your best best. Try to get model with 2GB RAM instead of 1GB

[Deleted]

Hi folks,

I recently upgraded some of my computers hardware but had to neglect my graphics card because I ran short of cash.
This is my current system:

Asrock B75 PRO3-M Mainboard
Intel Core i5-3570 (3,4 GHz)
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
8 GB Kingston DD3 RAM (1600 MHz)
250 GB SSD
1 TB HDD

I'm currently running Windows 7 Ultimate, WoW and Diablo 3 from the SSD with WoW-settings mostly on low with a few on good, but nothing close to ultra. I have fps issues (~10 fps) in raids, when cruising through Pandarias forests like Krasarang or when there is a lot of steam to be displayed. Moving or changing the camera angle sometimes feels horribly slow and everything but fluent.
Diablo 3 starts to lag when there are 20+ enemies on screen... so basically all the time

So my question is: Could a new graphics card solve these issues?
If yes: Which one would be a good deal with a budget of ~150€? I'd like to buy from Amazon EU.
If no: What may be the cause of the described issues? Maybe drivers? I installed the latest Catalyst drivers.

Thanks in advance!

- Vayar

Yeah a new video card would definitely fix it, the rest of the system seems to be quite acceptable (atleast for WoW)

[Toffie]

Getting a new card would be a huge increase for you. The 2900 is ancient.

You might wanna increase you budget and get a http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0099AOAP8/?tag=pcp0f-21. if you decide to tweak with overclocking then you could get 660ti performance or higher.

[Deleted]

Absolutely it would make a huge difference.

If you can stretch the budget a little this would be a the best choice:

GIGABYTE AMD Radeon HD 7850 £145, they deliver to EU just like Amazon.

Otherwise this should do the trick:

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 650 Ti OC 2GB GDDR5 Free to Play Bundle £127

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Removing the graphics card and running the Intel HD 4000 on the CPU would probably be an FPS increase.

[Evil Inside]

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 650 Ti OC 2GB GDDR5 Free to Play Bundle £127

Not too sure about this one, but the 7850 definitely.

[Deleted]

Not too sure about this one, but the 7850 definitely.

Yeah that's just on a higher budget than he listed so I feel within the budget the 650ti is better.

[Deleted]

Thank you for all the fast replies!

I'm from Germany. We have some bigger electronic retailers here (Media Markt & Saturn) but they usually sell hardware for higher prices than Amazon.
Novatech doesn't seem to deliver to Germany if I'm not mistaken :/

So... GeForce 660 and Radeon 7850 seem to be the winners. Are there any problems with the 660 and AMD (Asrock...) boards?
And: What the heck do all those funky prefixes like GTX N660, GV-N660 and GTX660 mean? Is that a manufacturer thing or do they indeed point out different fabrics? As a newbie on this field I don't want to buy the wrong card because I didn't know the meaning of some numbers.
In my naive view I only have to watch out for 660, memory type, 2 GB RAM and the right socket - right?

P.S.: I'll ignore all the 2900-bashing, poor old graphics card :P

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

http://www.mindfactory.de/product_in...e-Retail-.html

2GB HD 7850 for 155 Euros.

I can vouch for mindfactory too, when I ordered my PC parts from them they arrived within 48 hours of ordering.

[valliant13]

Thank you for all the fast replies!

I'm from Germany. We have some bigger electronic retailers here (Media Markt & Saturn) but they usually sell hardware for higher prices than Amazon.
Novatech doesn't seem to deliver to Germany if I'm not mistaken :/

So... GeForce 660 and Radeon 7850 seem to be the winners. Are there any problems with the 660 and AMD (Asrock...) boards?
And: What the heck do all those funky prefixes like GTX N660, GV-N660 and GTX660 mean? Is that a manufacturer thing or do they indeed point out different fabrics? As a newbie on this field I don't want to buy the wrong card because I didn't know the meaning of some numbers.
In my naive view I only have to watch out for 660, memory type, 2 GB RAM and the right socket - right?

P.S.: I'll ignore all the 2900-bashing, poor old graphics card :P

As far as your P.S. goes, I don't know why you would get all those items with a HD2900. Either you were slowly updating or just though everything would be ok. As far as graphic cards go, I'd stretch your budget a little and try to go get yourself a 660ti. if you absolutely can't then I would go with the 7850.

[Deleted]

As far as your P.S. goes, I don't know why you would get all those items with a HD2900. Either you were slowly updating or just though everything would be ok.

Well, my brother came up with the idea that he needed to upgrade his own computer and came up with the idea to pay me for my old hardware (5 year old stuff mostly, you don't want to know what my brother ran until recently when this junk is an upgrade for him ), so I was in quite a rush to replace those parts. He didn't need a graphics card and my budget ran out, so I kept the 2900 for good. But after running this setup for about a month, I'm a bit unsatisfied with how the games perform. So basically I hoped for an increase in performance by replacing my cpu, RAM etc., but knew that I had to replace the graphics card eventually

[valliant13]

I figured it was something along the lines of the latter. I would say invest in the GPU as well as CPU/MOBO. You couldve spared the 250gig SSD for a 120 and gotten a better card when you got all that stuff...or just waited on the ssd all together and used that money for a decent graphics card

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and like I said, if you can increase your budget a little I would go with a 660ti personally...however if you absolutely cant just get the 7850.

[Malackai]

Thank you for all the fast replies!

I'm from Germany. We have some bigger electronic retailers here (Media Markt & Saturn) but they usually sell hardware for higher prices than Amazon.
Novatech doesn't seem to deliver to Germany if I'm not mistaken :/

So... GeForce 660 and Radeon 7850 seem to be the winners. Are there any problems with the 660 and AMD (Asrock...) boards?
And: What the heck do all those funky prefixes like GTX N660, GV-N660 and GTX660 mean? Is that a manufacturer thing or do they indeed point out different fabrics? As a newbie on this field I don't want to buy the wrong card because I didn't know the meaning of some numbers.
In my naive view I only have to watch out for 660, memory type, 2 GB RAM and the right socket - right?

P.S.: I'll ignore all the 2900-bashing, poor old graphics card :P

If your really short on money you can try a little older video card instead of the brand new ones.

Just for reference : I am using a i5 2500k with 6gb ddr3. and a old geforce GTX460 (2010 card) with average 60-80 fps during 25 man raids (90-100 fps when out of combat or flying around) When its extremely Aoeish (think trash packs of HoF in boss room of the first boss) then it drops to around 20-30 or something.
I have pretty much all settings on ultra.

[valliant13]

actually malackai is right too....the 6950 is a pretty solid card and so is a 6970. if you can find any of the last gen graphics cards(500 series for nvidia, 560 or better or 6000 series, 6950-6970 from ati) I would go with those.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

actually malackai is right too....the 6950 is a pretty solid card and so is a 6970. if you can find any of the last gen graphics cards(500 series for nvidia, 560 or better or 6000 series, 6950-6970 from ati) I would go with those.

That 2GB 7850 I linked will be hard to beat at that price (155 EUR), I can't find a 6950 under 200 euros.

[Deleted]

I really appreciate all your help!

I will sleep a few nights over this and then decide. It'll probably be the Radeon Butler Log linked

[neuk]

Hardwareversand.de is were I get my components from and I'm in Ireland. It's a cheap place to buy.
http://www.hardwareversand.de/articlesearch.jsp