Your 4870 is still pretty capable, to get something that meaningfully outperforms it you're looking at a radeon 5850/5870, or an Nvidia GTX470/480
On 6 Apr 2010, at 17:31, Joe User wrote: > Hello THG, > > A few years ago, with the help of some of you, I put together a game > system which has served me well. I don't want to lay out for a new > system this year, maybe in another year or so. I mainly play WoW and > STO. However, I do play some Steam games, FPS, RTS, etc. I thought, I > would purchase a new video card to boost performance - as the rest of > the system seems to be serving me well. Here's what I have: > > WinXP Pro SP3 32 bit > Intel E6850 (3 GHz) > 4GB memory (I know XP limit) > (3) WD 740 Raptors > Gigabyte Intel P35 Chipset (P35-DS3P) > Samsung 244T > > MSI ATI 1GB 4870 > > > What would be a good card to go with for upgrade - strongly prefer a > nVidia solution this time... > > I understand WoW is CPU limited but I think STO (my current addiction) > could use a better card but the rest of my specs are good. (?) > > All advice is welcomed. > > > -- > Regards, > joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... > > "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..." >
