Sapphire HD6870 1G GDDR5 enough ?

peneau

Evening Y'all, if I may tap into the vast reservoir of knowledge here and seek opinions on this question, please. Using DVB Viewer Pro V5. 2.8.1 and currently experiencing occasional stuttering and stalling when watching HD programmes, based on the system specs listed below, might I need to upgrade the Graphics Card and If so what card(s) would you recommend ?

System Specs: Sapphire HD6870 1G GDDR5, i5-3570k @ 3.40ghz, 8.00gb ram, Win7 Pro 64, monitor 2560x1440, PSU SuperFlower Amazon 550W, nothing overclocked.


Any assistance greatly appreciated, many thanks.

AntDub

Hi,

Have you an air cooler on your CPU or stock?
If stock could be a good idea to buy something like a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler (RR-212E-16PK-R1) which should let you overclock your CPU to between 4.1ghz and 4.5ghz, they're around €29.Just make sure you've room in your case for it.

Are you a gamer and what's your budget? This will let us know what's best for you.

The chart on the below link will let you know where it stands in the hierarchy chart.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gaming-graphics-card-review,review-32884-7.html

peneau

Thanks for replying Ant, cooler is Coolermaster V8 Cooler RR-UV8-XBU1-GP Fan, case is a Coolermaster HAF, use the computer for all sorts really, watching TV, gaming included, but wouldn't be as up to speed as most of you guys budget up to €300. Thanks for your help

AntDub

I take it your Motherboard will allow you to overclock seems you have the 3570K, if it does Overclock that CPU is crying for it.
Everything seems decent enough exzcept for the GPU which you've already figured out.Do you have an SSD? If not that and a decent GPU and you're sorted.

The below is a decent new gen GPU that if overclocked will get you up to a 270x for €164.99
http://www.pixmania.ie/graphics-card/sapphire-technology-r9-270-oc-with-boost-battlefield-4-edition-2-gb-gddr5-pci-express-graphics-card/21852843-a.html

And the below SSD if you don't have one for €115
http://www.pixmania.ie/solid-state-drive-ssd/samsung-ssd-840-pro-series-basic-2-5-128-gb-mz-7pd128bw/19080404-a.html

or the below for €98.40
http://www.pixmania.ie/solid-state-drive-ssd/samsung-840-evo-mz-7te120-120-gb-2-5-sata-600/21526120-a.html

Wait for more people to respond to this and then decide if I were you, I'm no expert but my gut feeling tells me you'd have a decent rig with these upgrades.

Then try and sell you GPU on adverts.ie

BloodBath

Those Samsung evo's are far cheaper on amazon. Those upgrades would do the trick.

Your g-card shouldn't be struggling with video at all though. Not sure what the problem is there.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-120GB-Basic-Solid-State/dp/B00E391KA8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393098815&sr=8-1&keywords=samsung+evo+120gb&tag=fczbkkcom04-21

peneau

Thanks for the suggestions, have the O.S. on a Samsung 256GB 830 SSD, mobo is the ASRock Z77 Pro3. You guys mentioning an SSD got me thinking so I checked the Samsung Magician S/W that came with the SSD and in the OS Optimizaton box it said the O.S. was configured to run on a magnetic HD, don't know how that might have happened as the computer was displaying High Def channels fine until during the week and I'm sure I set it to SSD initially, anyway I configured the O.S. to maximize SSD performance and that appears to have sorted the problem.

Considering upgrading the GPU on foot of of advice, would the SAPPHIRE R9 270 be much of a step up or should I leave as is ?


Thanks for your help and suggestions chaps, much appreciated.

yawhat!

Not familiar with DVB viewer is that streaming over the internet or through a tuner card. Could be an issue with your broadband. Your PC is perfect!

peneau

yawhat! wrote: »

Not familiar with DVB viewer is that streaming over the internet or through a tuner card. Could be an issue with your broadband. Your PC is perfect!

Through a tuner card Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4400 use it for viewing DVB-T and DVB-S Broadcasts, with DVB Viewer Pro, thanks for input

beauf

I can watch full HD on systems with far lower specs than this. Why do some of you think its hardware issue?

I'd have assume poor reception. Whats your aerial set up.

peneau

Satellite Dish, Outdoor Aerial (For Saorview) signal strength/quality not an issue, thanks.

beauf

Might be a Windows 7 driver issue according to this. http://tinyurl.com/oj6tb4f

There's 13 pages there and I don't think theres a clear answer.

If its not signal, and its not hardware raw power. Then its a software issue of some sort.

peneau

beauf wrote: »

Might be a Windows 7 driver issue according to this. http://tinyurl.com/oj6tb4f

There's 13 pages there and I don't think theres a clear answer.

If its not signal, and its not hardware raw power. Then its a software issue of some sort.

Thanks for that beauf, I've a bit of reading to do. You're probably right driver or codec issue most likely, thanks again.