A friend's offered me a 4890 for £35 and I'm wondering if it'll make a reasonable upgrade. I've been pretty happy with my 4850 so far but it's beginning to show its age and I'm hoping the extra memory and bandwidth will make some difference?
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A friend's offered me a 4890 for £35 and I'm wondering if it'll make a reasonable upgrade. I've been pretty happy with my 4850 so far but it's beginning to show its age and I'm hoping the extra memory and bandwidth will make some difference?
What games, what settings and what resolution?Quote:
Originally Posted by Salazaar
The extra memory makes little difference in many games at normal resolutions, but it can enable you to add more AA etc. On the other hand for older games the increase in GPU performance might be enough to get closer to acceptable performance or increase the settings some more. If you play Skyrim a lot I'd say it's probably worth it.
1920x1080, little AA and other settings as high as they'll go. Games would range widely but pick any from the last year and you get the idea.
It will be a lot faster than your 4850 and most of them seem to overclock very well. My friend has a pair and they have no trouble running BF3 at 2560x1600.
For £35 its a great upgrade IMO.
Why not? Double the ram, reasonable price. You should be aiming for 1k on the core I think so you can play with it and use it to play games if you get my drift. Which model just out of interest?
Yes I would for £35, you could then sell your 4850 to recoup some of the outlay.
It's an XFX XXX model and I've gone for it. I'm going to try recycling my old one into my media PC and see if it gives it much of a boost