The PC (Personal Computer) is a highly configurable and upgradable gaming platform that, among home systems, sports the widest variety of control methods, largest library of games, and cutting edge graphics and sound capabilities.
I am looking into upgrading my graphics card and I am totally confused. I am currently using an nvidia 8500 GT card with 3GB of ram and an AMD 9500 Quad core processor. I am playing Crysis on low setting so I started to look online to see how much it would cost me to go to high settings.
After doing some research (and talking to people) I decided that a 8800 GT would be the cheapest way to get decent results. I started to look online to get a card and found out that there are many different versions of the geForce 8800 GT graphics card (ranging in price from $130-$300). I was expecting to pay around $200, but how do I know that I am getting the right version? And how is it that so many different companies are selling the same card?
Needless to say I am confused, I have never upgraded a PC (been a counsel gamer my whole life), and for some reason I thought that there was only one 8800GT card.
So which one should I get? Any help would be very appreciated.
The 4850 runs Crysis pretty well if that's your main focus, plus it is cheap for a card that good , if you want something cheaper you could get the 8800GT which also runs crysis decently but just not as good as the 4850 which is by far the best card for the price
if you do want to get an nvidia 8800GT try to get one that is dual slot cooled.. [ cause nvidia cards always get very hot... ] if you cant .. like everyone in here I would suggest you get a ATI 4850.. that's an overall better card.
"if you do want to get an nvidia 8800GT try to get one that is dual slot cooled.. [ cause nvidia cards always get very hot... ] if you cant .. like everyone in here I would suggest you get a ATI 4850.. that's an overall better card."
Just so u kno, the HD4850 has a few heat issues as well...sadly most all HD4850s only come in single slot cooling styles.
"if you do want to get an nvidia 8800GT try to get one that is dual slot cooled.. [ cause nvidia cards always get very hot... ] if you cant .. like everyone in here I would suggest you get a ATI 4850.. that's an overall better card."
Just so u kno, the HD4850 has a few heat issues as well...sadly most all HD4850s only come in single slot cooling styles."
yea was reading about that... figured it was a driver issue...but still doubt they make that much heat compared to the 8800gt.. since the chip is smaller
Yeah, the 4850 is a better deal right now- not much more expensive and considerably more powerful.
For future reference, the reason there are so many different 8800GT cards is that Nvidia makes the graphics chip on the card and releases references specs for the card. (So any card you buy will at minimum be as good as Nvidia's reference specs in theory) However, Nvidia doesn't actually manufacture the cards, other companies (like EVGA, XFX, ASUS, etc) buy their chips and make the actual cards. Sometimes these companies make changes over the reference specs such as overclocking them, or adding a bigger heatsink/fan. This same process holds true for ATI cards as well. Not all brands are the same price or the same quality.
If you can spend a few extra dollars, I suggest you get the 9800GTX+ which is $199 and beats the 4850 in every game, remember I said the (PLUS) version not the normal 9800GTX
"the HD4850 is the best price/performance you can get at the moment"
Or if the budget extends to it the 4870 is better but definately at the moment ATI have the two best cards for price and performance. Nvidia dropped the ball by releasing some overpriced cards.
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