Upgrade from gtx460 1gb to gtx 570 1.2gb

[Chris.D@1987]

Hello oc3d im new to this place so pls take it easy on me. Well it's that time of the year to ready your rig for a long winter's gaming sessions

. I wonted to know is it werth the upgrade from a gtx 460 to gtx 570 i game on a benq 22" 1920x1080...?

 

[Ghosthud1]

GTX 460 still performs great on most games @ 1080p and will continue to for sometime.

GTX 570 performs immensely with all games at all resolutions, its the card you buy to stick with for 1-2years+

if you feel like some games are not performing to your needs on your GTX 460 the only answer is to upgrade.

if you feel that the card ticks all your boxes, stick with it until you really need to. i went from a GTS 250 to a GTX 570 and the difference was shockingly good.

to sum this up, wait and skip generations to feel the full benefit of the current card you have.

or be the guy who needs surplus requirements to feel safe about his system in the sense of playing everything to the max.

But there is no feeling like skipping generations, the difference is VERY noticeable.

 

[Scoob]

Hi,

I had a GTX 275 on my old gamer (Q6600 @ 3.6) and it was great. I looked long and hard at the 460 and it's a great card but, in most titles, it seemed for perform the same as my 275. Ok, the 460 could do DX11 but it didn't do it at the sort of FPS I was used to. Basically the 275 and 460 had very very similar performance in DX9 and 10 titles which was the bulk of my stuff at the time.

When the 570 came out I jumped on it as it literally doubled my performance over the 275. Then, when I upgraded to Sandy Bridge, the 570 was really let loose.

So, the GTX 570 is a great card for 1920x1080(or 1200 like me) resolutions. I just added a 2nd one for SLI and have had a huge (~80%+) boost at least in most titles - plus SLI just worked! I literally popped in the 2nd card, fired up the system and that was it! I had to enable SLI mode of course, but having done that ALL my game profiles were updated to use SLI automatically. Nice.

One tip:

I have one of the original reference design GTX 570's with the stock vapour chamber cooler. It works well but my newer GTX 570 (which is shorter and a slightly different config) has a heat pipe style cooler with a larger central fan. This newer design offers better cooling, though it does vent hot air into the case which needs to be extracted.

So yeah, a 570 should offer quite the performance bump of your 460 - which is a good card in it's own right. I guess you're asking this questions because you're not quite 100% happy with the performance of your 460...you wont be disapointed with a 570, even a basic model - which should overclock well if you're so inclined.

Best of luck...let us know what you do.

Cheers,

Scoob.

 

[Lollipop]

I would wait for keplar when the prices drop

But if you absoloutly need a new GPU go ahead my 560ti runs EVERYTHING so no doubt that the 570 will run EVERYTHING and more

 

[Scoob]

I would wait for keplar when the prices drop

But if you absoloutly need a new GPU go ahead my 560ti runs EVERYTHING so no doubt that the 570 will run EVERYTHING and more

Yep, wait if you can - there will always be something better if you wait...plus if you continue to wait it'll never cost you any money!

Seriously though, if you want to improve your FPS **NOW** then a 560ti would give you a noticable jump, and a 570 a slightly larger jump. Both, no doubt, would allow you to hit "playable" FPS levels if your 460 isn't at the moment.

I was gonna wait to upgrade but i) I can't ii) no really, I'm waaay too impatient & iii) Managed to pick up a 2nd 570 for a reasonable price.

I, like many here, are keen to see what AMDs 7000 series and nVidias 600 series have to offer. But, if I couldn't play a game I wanted to NOW I'd be upgrading...likely I'd regret it later but I'd get my gaming fix right away

For me my prior upgrade was easier, after all I was on very much last-gen tech with my GTX 275, so gaining 2x FPS plus DX11 goodness was an easier choice

For you it's good mid-range first-gen DX11 card to mid- to high-range slightly newer-gen DX11 card. How about a 2nd 460 for SLI? Should be a cheap 2nd hand purchase would have thought for near-double performance. Options options lol.

Cheers,

Scoob.

 

[Icekube]

I upgraded from an Evga 460 SC to my 570 SC and tbh there isn't a game I play atm that stresses it out that much, I've gone from about 50 - 60 fps in Bad Company 2 maxed to 95-110 fps. But BF3 will change all that

Honestly dude it depends how good your paitence is, if you can wait until around Feb/March next year I would with AMD and Nvidia both releasing their next gen cards, but if you don't want to wait that long Asus Direct CU II 570's are about £250 atm which is a total steal imo

 

[Scoob]

I upgraded from an Evga 460 SC to my 570 SC and tbh there isn't a game I play atm that stresses it out that much, I've gone from about 50 - 60 fps in Bad Company 2 maxed to 95-110 fps. But BF3 will change all that

Honestly dude it depends how good your paitence is, if you can wait until around Feb/March next year I would with AMD and Nvidia both releasing their next gen cards, but if you don't want to wait that long Asus Direct CU II 570's are about £250 atm which is a total steal imo

Yep, unless you desperately need to upgrade I think it'd be sensible to see what the new offerings are like before spending money.

My 570 is great, but when I just had the single card it wouldn't run everything maxed at 1920x1200 at 60fps+ Don't get me wrong FPS was generally fine and playable with a games max settings applied, though tweaking the settings down a notch as needed helped. Adding a 2nd 570 as I just have..well, NOW everything is silky smooth

Crysis 2 for example went from perfectly playable to damn this is smooth, how could I accept how it was before lol.

Anyway, I really must stop posting when I'm tired as really feel I'm rambling this eve, and I'm making so many typos - hope I've caught most of them!

Cheers,

Scoob.