Best Card for 19" Monitor.

[duskichu]

Yeh, There's probably a few threads about this but I couldn't find many by searching, and the ones I did find were fairly outdated.

as the title suggests, I am looking for the best card for a 19" monitor.

My specs at the moment:

AMD Phenom II x4 940 Stock Clocks
9600GT 512mb
4GB Kingston DDR2 800Mhz
Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 Motherboard
Corsair HX Series 650w Psu

 

[hunter315]

what resolution is your 19" monitor? A 4870 would be a significant improvement over the 9600GT and would be able to play everything on high even if yours is 1680x1050.

 

[duskichu]

Mine's a fairly low resolution, 1440x900.

so the 4870 would be a good choice for me then?

If so, the 512MB or 1GB Model?

 

[hunter315]

The 512MB model will be plenty, you dont need 1GB until resolution hits atleast 1920x1080

 

[duskichu]

Alright, thanks for the help

If anyone else has an input Im still gonna be looking at this thread, so go ahead and post!

 

[Bluescreendeath]

yep, hunter is correct.

Also take into consideration a 5770 - performs the same as the 4870 and costs slightly more, but supports dx11 and runs a bit cooler/uses less energy.

 

[duskichu]

I might actually go down the 5770 route, seeing as I'm running Windows 7.

 

[ubernoobie]

+1 for 5770 since it comsumes half the power in idle and about 2/3 power in load of a 4870 while giving 80-90% performance of 4870

 

[duskichu]

Thanks for all the input guys, I think Im gonna go with the HD 5770.