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Old 3 Weeks Ago   #21 (permalink)
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8800GT is not ALOT slower, but it is slower and expensive comparing to 4850.

I have a GT and want to upgrade to 4850 for as low as possible loss of €.

Go with e4850, but you CPU MUST run atleast at 3.0Ghz.

This doesn't cost you much.Only 2€ more for the electricity and one good cooler(optional).
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The 8800GT isn't "WAY" slower than the 4850. Sure it's outperformed in most games, but it's a really good card for the price.

I'd go for the 4850 if I were you though.
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If your PC is serving you fine now, why not wait to see what actually runs GTA IV at an acceptable frame rate?

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Based on the description, the following GPUs should be fine so see if you can get a good deal in your place. Personally, I would go for 4850 for a long run but I don't know their price over there.

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another vote for HD4850
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it seems I can get the 1GB version of 4850 for just £7 increase of the 512MB version.

is it worth it in the long run to get the ASUS brand 1GB version (same clock speed etc) for +£7 more?
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I'm don't think it will hurt go for it, I myself like Nvidia gfx's cards but you can't beat the price/performance of ATI so far.

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it seems I can get the 1GB version of 4850 for just £7 increase of the 512MB version.

is it worth it in the long run to get the ASUS brand 1GB version (same clock speed etc) for +£7 more?
If you can and want to crossfire, yeah
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You know the 8800GT is alot slower then the Radeon 4850 right?
you know the difference between our posts was a few seconds and I'm not the OP so explaining the difference of a card to me in this thread is irrelevant.
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If you want to use another NVIDIA card, a 8800gt or a 9600gt will do you fine aswell. Both coming in at about £100.

But otherwise i would grab the 4850.
If you're gonna do that, get an 8800GS and overclock it and save yourself $100 for the same performance as the 8800GT.
I just overclocked one for someone today and got 11619 in 3dmark06 with a C2D E7200 mildly OC'd from 2.53 Ghz to 3.17 Ghz and 2gb of 667 mhz ddr2

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