Is the Radeon HD 4850 better than a GeForce 8800GT? + Other stuff - Hardware & Software

Recently my GeForce 8800GT has most likely died, as i'm getting bluescreens the longer it's on, to the point where i can't even get to the desktop before it goes insane with artifacts and driver crashes. So I've heard good things about ATI. Not because their drivers or products are better, but because at the moment you're getting more bang for your buck. Right now i'm looking at the XFX Radeon HD 4850 1GB ([url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150351[/url]) to replace my old card, the eVGA GeForce 8800GT ([url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130318[/url]) How much better is this? I picked it because it had 1GB of memory (As I have a 1920x1080 monitor now), because it was cheap, and because it had pretty high reviews. If it is better, would my processor (AMD Athlon X2 6000+ 3GHZ) bottleneck it? If that does, what's a decent AM2+/AM3 processor? I haven't been following processors lately so i'm clueless there. I have about $250 to spend on both of these, so I can't really spend a lot of $$. And a final question, have they fixed the bug in Hammer where with the high end ATI cards the grid numbers and stuff get all corrupted? That's a major problem if they haven't.

I recently bought the Sapphire version of the 1 GB 4850 for my HTPC. It is a true champ for everything I've put it through. It's extremely quiet, runs at around 50 degrees idle, and usually doesn't go above 30 percent load using a 58 inch 1080p setup. The built in HDMI on the Sapphire cards is excellent. Just for some references: Using an E8400 and 4 GB of ram it runs TF2 at 200 fps stable, Gmod at 300 fps on flatgrass, and runs 1080p MP4 rips using hardware accelerated decoding at 20 percent load. It also runs hardware upscaling for SD stuff at 30 percent load. All around stellar card. Unfortunately, I can't vouch for that it's better than an 8800 because I've never had one, nor do I know the answer to the hammer question.

What's your power supply?

[QUOTE=McSanchezV2;17094235]What's your power supply?[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817152031[/url]

[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150394[/url] $15 more. [editline]06:32PM[/editline] cool avvie btw

It is much better than the 8800GT.

But my main question is how much bottleneck is my processor going to create?

Er, it might bottleneck it a little bit.

4850 is the greater of the two sir.

One more question. My 8800 is basically hitting my hard drive cage right now. Is the 4850 much bigger? If it is, we've got a problem.

Get the ASUS one. It's significantly shorter and has a better cooler on it. [editline]02:06AM[/editline] And much cheaper. [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121272R[/url]

[QUOTE=j00g0t0wnd;17095036]Get the ASUS one. It's significantly shorter and has a better cooler on it. [editline]02:06AM[/editline] And much cheaper. [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121272R[/url][/QUOTE] Because it's open box..

yes 4850 is much beter than the 8800

Fine, here's the non-open box. [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121253[/url]

if you could wait till the 5000 series came ot it would be worth it, assuming you have intergrated

[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;17095293]if you could wait till the 5000 series came ot it would be worth it, assuming you have intergrated[/QUOTE] My motherboard doesn't have integrated, how stupid is that?

[QUOTE=Jimmy422;17095332]My motherboard doesn't have integrated, how stupid is that?[/QUOTE] Mine doesn't, so when I broke my 7600 gt I had to find my trusty old FX 5200 Ultra, and I won't have cash to upgrade my computer till late December early January. :saddowns: Also you could get a [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150394]XFX 4870 1gb[/url] and a [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103680]AMD Phenom II x2 550 3.1[/url] for $247

I'm running with a 300W power supply with a 3400+ 2.5GHZ with 2gb of RAM, it runs great a little bottle necking and it's probably under powered but it runs great on my machine.

[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;17095293]if you could wait till the 5000 series came ot it would be worth it, assuming you have intergrated[/QUOTE] Since the 5870 will cost $300 and the 5850 a little cheaper that would be out of his range since he will definitely bottleneck on the 5xxx series.

8800 = 9800 = gts 250 we say the 9800 sucks compared to the 4850+ cards yes 8800 is lower. Unless you got the Ultra edition, that shit was awesome.

Ultra Edition is still much worse.