was this worth the money

The HD 5770 is slightly better.

I don't think so. Unless you are talking about 10-20$.

well, it's the better card for sure. better performance and power consumption. for me the differences don't really justify the upgrade cost, though. i would have waited for the next gen to upgrade at that price point.

i just tested it out and i get 10-15 more fps in game plus dx11 and better memory i think so it is just it runs very hot

my gts 250 was broken just so you all know

Yes, 5770 is significantly better than a gts250.  Plus you get dx11 and the 5770 responds very well to crossfire.

The argument will always be there to wait for newer tech, but if you keep doing this you'll never buy a new card at all.  5770 is definitely one of the best cards for value for money at the moment along side the nvidia 460 & 465.

First of all, gts250 is probably the best card ever made.The card is 4 generations old now and can still run most games at decent frame rates.

For those that don't know, 8800GTX = 9800GTX = GTS250.

Otherwise in a 5770, you got a card that is about 25% more powerful. Not too bad, but you really should have got a GTX460 since you paid 200 for the 5770 at best buy :)

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well, the 8800GT_S_ (G92 chip, not the G80 the 8800GTX used) never would be able to handle the clock speeds the gts250 is doing

a shrink made the G92 suddenly able to do 100MHz more and those cards were called the 9800GTXplus, which then pretty much was rebranded to the gts250 (improved board layout)

Right...those were 90 nm back in the day, down to 55nm today in gts250s. They obviously did some improvements as they couldn't re-badge and re-sell a 6 year old card 3 times lol.

However they are great cards. Even today, 2 of gts250s in SLI will smoke any DX10 game in highest detail...other than crysis and possibly Metro 2033