Planning to buy a new GPU

[toyota]

OP, you currently have a dual core. Moving to an i3 530 may give you more performance, but I'd have to say at this point, a move to a quad core would be the minimum I'd consider for your CPU upgrade. More and more titles are using multi core. I'd rather see you purchase a Q8300 quad core over an i3 530 dual core. Anyone else feel the same?

well the i3 530 is actually a faster cpu than the Q8300. also the more you overclock them the bigger the gap becomes making the Q8300 look even worse. that being said I would go for the i5 760 over the i3 530 as its the much better overall cpu. it has four real cores and some very good overclocking headroom so it will provide a decent platform for quite a while.

 

[apathy_next2]

Get the AMD 5850. The price difference is not that big compared to Rs16,500 and Rs15,000. The 460 is suppose to be a lot cheaper than the 5850, but that is clearly not the case in India, so your best option will be to get the 5850 since you will be paying around that price range. You will get a good performance increase over the 460 by spending the extra Rs1600

Good luck yaar, let us know how it works out

 

[s002wjhwjh]

glad i bought the gtx470 for $234 at tiger the other day. i was debating i should get a 460 or not, but heck for $234 gtx470 almost good as 5870 with latest driver.

 

[Keysplayr]

I5 750 would be my choice as well. I just don't know how much the OP wants to spend on a CPU. It appears he is looking to save some money. He may be able to go Core2 Quad without having to upgrad his whole system for the i3/i5/i7. I haven't checked what his mobo will support though. On my handheld so it's a PITA. Maybe he can even swing a Q9xxx? Dunno.

 

[toyota]

glad i bought the gtx470 for $234 at tiger the other day. i was debating i should get a 460 or not, but heck for $234 gtx470 almost good as 5870 with latest driver.

yeah but the gtx470 is a different animal when it comes to heat, noise and power consumption. I would almost rather have the gtx460 for the same price since its likely your deal involved a rebate you will have to deal with too. at the end of the day the gtx460 can match the gtx470 with overclocking and still do it quietly and much more efficiently. yeah you can oc the gtx470 too but that means even more noise, heat and power consumption on top of what many don't already consider acceptable at stock speeds.

 

[Cerb]

What about a Palit 9800GT 1GB and that new PSU, instead of a GTX 460 or HD 5850?
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/&menu=browser&image_id=883991&article_id=657567&page=1&show=original
It will simply destroy a 9400GT, looks good w/ your prices, and wouldn't be too limiting by the time the rest of the system got in place. By then, nVidia will have certainly gotten more new cards in place, and both next gen series will be reasonably priced (or the current series made far cheaper), approximately evening out the end cost/performance.

By the time you can save up for the CPU, mobo, and RAM, you could probably get something with the performance of a i5 quad, or maybe better, for the price, rather than having components sitting around waiting to be used. While graphics of this last year or two have been rather strange, on the CPU side of things, AMD and Intel are very much competing. There is good value in CPUs right up around $250 (12k rupees?), prices have been neatly dropping month-over-month as you go up, and performance has increased month over month, on the low-end. Even considering foundry problems for AMD, there's no reason not to expect a good showing from both AMD and Intel, next spring and summer, when you would have saved up enough for the rest of the system.

If you're not going to have the whole new PC before Christmas, but plan to have one it by the middle of the next year...don't spend a ton on a graphics card, and save up enough to buy CPU+RAM+mobo all at once.