chessmyantidrug

If you're wary about shelling out $300 on one, get a 4850 now and another one a month from now. Two 4850s provide about a 50% performance increase from a single 4870, at least if all the math translates. A 4870 is ~20% better than a 4850 and two 4850s is ~75% better than a single 4850.

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superk

No way!

A single 4870 would pwn those cards right into the ground. Hardcore.

A single 4870 would be a very close match for a pair of 8800GTS' much less regular GT's

Perhaps you should update your info...

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headcrabcake

well i do have a 650I justy sitting there atm (replaced with a x48)

but wont a 650i bottle neck? as i cant overclocked it (mobo wont let me or/and im a noob at overclocking) so its a E4500 at 2.2Ghz on that mobo

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A pair of 8800 GTs should perform better than a single 4870. If the 8800 GTs weren't bottlenecked, the pair should perform the 4870 by about 25%.

I suggest getting a 750i FTW or 790i board if you wanted to run two 8800 GTs. That would probably be more expensive than getting a 4870 or even two 4850s. It depends which board you get. Since you already have a X48 board, I suggest either a 4850 now and one later or a 4870.

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Pibbz

Woah! Hang on a minute. Your FPS dips below 30 with an 8800GT in TF2??

I question other parts of your system or if the card you have is funked. An 8800GT should blow TF2 out of the water, even at 24" resolutions.

Upgrading will give you a performance boost, but it's not worth the money over an 8800 for such small increases.

Try upgrading your drivers, or using the stock drivers on the disc that came with your card. Overclock your card, or trade it in for a new one because it should be WAYYYY faster then that.

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headcrabcake

i have cleaned the drivers and reinstalled etc (even reinstalled windows)

if i overclock to 3.0Ghz on my x48 on team fortress 2 every now and then my whole system powers down for no reason but i do get better fps at 3.0Ghz but unstable system
but that was made in a diff topic and no one could think or find out why this was happening

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Pibbz

Well man, I'd do a little more investigating. How's your FPS in other games?

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headcrabcake

in cod4 i get 40fps at 2.2Ghz havnt tried at 4.0Ghz and at crysis (like any 1 cares about the game play just the fps lol) i get 30 fps 1920x1200 high(dx9) not very high i get 30 to 20 fps

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Pibbz

If you can push your CPU to 2.8 - 3.0GHz stable as a 24/7 OC, you'll be alright. COD4 and TF2 are 2 very well optimized games and I'm surprised your getting such low FPS in TF2.

If you feel you need to upgrade, I'd sell the 8800GT and go the 4870 route. Good single card GPUs like that are your best price/performance option.

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headcrabcake

yea that's what im doing going to sell my 8800gt and buy a 4870

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