Hi.
Looking at the various GPU compare sites I see that a lot of the medium range gpus are kinda close when it comes to the general vote. I currently have a 4 year old 5750 graphic card, and when comparing it to any ~200$ modern card most of the gpu compare site tell me that the new graphic card has only a slightly better vote.
It became really hard to play modern games with the 5750 even on low graphic settings, and looking at the votes looks like there was no advancement form 4 years ago.
So how much money does somebody have to spend to have 60 fps with low settings at 1024x768?
Cryengine games tend to be polite and work smoothly, but other games such as gta4 and planetside 2 are a big problem.
I still remember that Crysis 1 could run on an Athlon XP with the ATI Radeoni 9800 and still look better than planetside 2 on my current setup!
amd 7750 (or nearest nvidia equivalet) should more than do the trick, but that is only if the game is gpu bound
what is your cpu by the way?
cpu bound games are the devil...
I can understand when the machine is being tied up by unit counts (rts / mmo etc) but when publishers do stupid shite like shadow calculation (fucking skyrim) or physics on the cpu it annoys the fuck out of me.
Since my priorities are not gaming, I got a FX 8350 with 16GB of DDR3 ram, which I hope should be enough.
The 5750 was taken out from my old computer.
Hwcompare says that there is not a big difference between the 5750 and the 7750.
http://www.hwcompare.com/11800/radeon-hd-5750-1gb-vs-radeon-hd-7750/