Ati hd 4770

OK I committed to a buy finally. The ATI HD 4770. The reviews looked good on both tigerdirect and newegg. Although it's a mid-level card I couldn't beat the deal, $94.99 and free shipping. I think it will fit nicely with my rig.

Hi bassfisher

Was your nVidia GeForce 8400 GS graphics not working out for you?

I think I am going to go for the Radeon HD 5750 or 5770 card for myself eventually.

No it's working fine. It's just too close to the 8300 series my mobo has. I just wanted to finish off my build with a better card. Something a little more high end then what I have. I'd becareful with the 5770 sseries. There are alot of horry stories out there about the drivers compatiablity with certian system setups. Mainly leaning toward the intel side of it. Then again there are others out there that haven't had not one bit of trouble at all. There is supposed to be patch being devloped.

The Asus ATI Radeon HD 5770 CuCore 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card has a Asus design cooler (Exclusive 5.8oz Copper Rod (CuCore) Cooler) and is quite a good card

Veedaz, I would have went with that card but the specs on actual board size was about and inch to long plus it was just a little bit beyond my budget. Now that my 4771 has arrived and I have installed it, it was the right decision. Also, after installing my new card reader, the cable for it is about 1 inch too short which also factored into my decision for the 4770, the cable for the card reader lays right up to my vid card with no room for error. My WEI in graphics went from a 3.3 to a 7.2 and gaming graphics went from a 4.6 to a 7.2. It fits my case layout almost perfectly. I'm pretty happy with it.

That sounds very good mate and glad your happy with your 4770

Seems strange that the 4770 will get 7.2 scores which is about the same scores as the 5970 cards. There must be a flaw in the scoring of WEI.

There was a member here a few days ago with two 5970 cards (Quadfire) and his graphics score was very disappointing

It's all in matching up your parts....I just sort of fell into mine...how lucky can you get. Apparently in my case very lucky....lol.

Since when does anyone pay any attention to WEI?