New 4850 Arrived!

Discussion in 'Videocards - AMD Radeon' started by drumthrasher109, Nov 5, 2008.

  1. drumthrasher109

    drumthrasher109 Active Member

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    It got here around the same time I thought it would, but here are 6 pics I took. The last one, the card was on and the fan was spinning, I thought it was cool how it caught the fan.

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  2. king-dubs

    king-dubs Ancient Guru

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    It's a great card, I have one. I took it from this rig and put it into my overclocked AMD Opteron rig, because I upgraded to a 4870 X2.

    Now about the HD 4850 (for you):
    The good:
    -It plays all games maxed out (except Crysis/Crysis Warhead)
    -It scores very nicely on 3DMark
    -It overclocks very well with minor voltmods
    -It can run very cool on stock cooling if you use the fan hack and set 65%.
    The bad:
    -Your AMD Athlon 64 3700+ will heavily bottleneck the card, just as my 2.9 GHz AMD Opteron did.
    -Your 480W Generic PSU may not be able to handle it
    -It won't run Crysis/Warhead at Very High 1920x1200.
    -It won't make me a sandvich.
     
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    The PSU seems to be running it just fine. All of my games (now) play great, except for Test Drive Unlimited. I'm getting the same exact frame rate as with my 2600PRO.
     
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    Oh my god, I tried TDU, Flatout Ultimate Carnage, GRID, and PURE, and they all played exactly the same as they did with my 2600PRO!!!!! ****! Waste of money...
     

  5. Thunderball

    Thunderball Member Guru

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    Well i think your cpu is too old and the ram you have is not up to date.
    It´s time to upgrade these parts.
    The card is good but not the other parts you have.
     
  6. drumthrasher109

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    Goddamnit...what a waste of $150, time to take it back.
     
  7. king-dubs

    king-dubs Ancient Guru

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    Your CPU, RAM, Mobo, and PSU is heavily bottlenecking the card, that's why you saw no improvement.

    Believe it or not, the 4850 is at least 8x faster than the HD 2600.
     
  8. FULMTL

    FULMTL Ancient Guru

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    someone is a little to excited..should have asked for upgrade recommendations from the forum first...
    did you update your video drivers at least?
    With that CPU, i wouldnt play any higher than 1280x800.
     
  9. drumthrasher109

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    Damn...if I can't sent it back then I'm stuck with this stupid thing.

    How is my PSU bottlenecking it...it works fine to me. And how much would my RAM be putting back anyway...this whole thing is mainly a CPU thing?
     
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    You could pick up a dualcore for around $40
     

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    These reply boxes are weird with Firefox...anyway, where? There is nothing on Newegg or Tiger Direct...also would this really help the bottlenecking?

     
  12. DSK

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    ebay as no shops sell socket 939 chips anymore
     
  13. keenan

    keenan Ancient Guru

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    Best thing you could do now is upgrade the motherboard cpu and ram.

    You can get...

    * GIGABYTE GA-EG31M-S2
    * Intel Pentium E2180 Allendale 2.0GHz
    * G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5400) Dual Channel Kit

    You're probably looking at $140 all incl
     
  14. sykozis

    sykozis Ancient Guru

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    I tried an HD2600 once....it stumbled trying to display the Vista desktop. I guarrantee that the 4850 is faster than an HD2600....at least this the proper hardware to run it. Of course an Ancient computer isn't going to show a big improvement, afterall the processor can't send anywhere near enough data to keep the GPU happy.
     

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