Best Brand out of the following GPU's

[Jad51]

Asus $305
Gigabyte $299
Sapphire $285
HIS $269


These are all 5770's

Asus and Gigabyte 3year warranty others two year warranty

Currently got an 8800gt gigabyte which came with a zalman, has been sweet but can not do any overclocking or it shits it's self :)

Any recommendations greatly appreciated

[M3DIC]

I have a Saphire and it has been good but understand quite a few other have had issues with them crapping out under load....

[Jad51]

On Newegg the saphire gets the best reviews 176 reviews 150 good or excelent
gigabyte 10 reviews 3 poor
Asus does not have great reviews either

Can not find the correct HIS card to get a review on that


Are there any driver cleaners you would recommend after uninstalling my 8800gt?

[28th|MB|]-[ats*]

I like Asus as its got 3 years warranty and has support still in New Zealand.



Are there any driver cleaners you would recommend after installing my 8800gt?

I use this one all the time Driver Sweeper 2.1.0 its really really Good. Best to use it in Safe mode but not necessary unless you are experiencing Problems. Just make shore you dont tick Nvidia chip set if you use a Nforce MB other than that it will clean out all you Nvidia Drivers.

I recommend to use it and then when it ask to reboot do it and then when it boots up do it one more time to get rid of the Windows ones that it will try to install then reboot then Shat down the computer Then put your new ATi card in and Start from there.

Here is a Link
http://phyxion.net/Driver-Sweeper/Driver-Sweeper/Driver-Sweeper-210-Released
Driver Sweeper 2.1.0

[Jad51]

Thanks Hats
will do as suggested.
Have ordered the Asus 5770 will pick up tomorrow :)

[Jad51]

Well got my 5770 today had to get the Sapphire cos I wanted it and it was the only one in stock :(
And I must say not to impressed, loaded the drivers that came with the card and fired up BFBC2 could not get fraps to run so can not tell the fps but it looks better. But loading the second map had up a black screen come up with no picture just a couple of people markers :Flush[1]:

So now downloading the ever so slow 380 meg 10.5 beta drivers :63[1]:

[28th|MB|]-[ats*]

Should of downloaded the latest drivers before you put the card in and saved time.
I never use the drivers that come on the DVD with the graphic card as their are always new one to grab on the Net.