ATI 4870 1Gig Advantages

Computer_Freak

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Hey there CF

I recently called my Computer guy about teh ATI 4870, and he replied "Which one do you want, the 512 or 1Gig"????

Is the one gig out?

Should i get the one gig instead of the normal 512, (i know it wont make too much of a difference, but this is GDDR5 we are taking about)

WHat would the performance advantages be?

SHould i get the 1Gig, Cause ill only be gaming on a 19" 1440x900 monitor.

What do you think
 
Computer_Freak said:
Hey there CF

I recently called my Computer guy about teh ATI 4870, and he replied "Which one do you want, the 512 or 1Gig"????

Is the one gig out?

Should i get the one gig instead of the normal 512, (i know it wont make too much of a difference, but this is GDDR5 we are taking about)

WHat would the performance advantages be?

SHould i get the 1Gig, Cause ill only be gaming on a 19" 1440x900 monitor.

What do you think
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You should be right getting the 512 mb, unless you plan to upgrade to a bigger monitor sometime in the near future. Basically, the more graphics memory your card has, the more pixels it can render without distorsion. Similar to a camera. The more megapixels in a camera, the bigger you can make the image before it starts to pixelate and loose quality.

With a 19" monitor, 512 mb is more than plenty.
 
I have a 22 inch 1650 x 1080 and I came from a 19 inch before that.I want to go even bigger (1920 x 1200) ,for gaming it makes a huge difference .Even for just multimedia and internet I would go at least 22 inch just for comfort.Once you have a large screeen you wont want to go back to a smaller.even the 22 inch are fairly affordable now.
 
Scubie67 said:
I have a 22 inch 1650 x 1080 and I came from a 19 inch before that.I want to go even bigger (1920 x 1200) ,for gaming it makes a huge difference .Even for just multimedia and internet I would go at least 22 inch just for comfort.Once you have a large screeen you wont want to go back to a smaller.even the 22 inch are fairly affordable now.
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Thing is, here in South Africa, things are very expensive...

The samsung im looking at getting cost $330...

Its between these two

Samsung SyncMaster 920NW - $300

Samsung SyncMaster 753GW - $330

That is for a 19", 1440x900 screen

Its too expensive to go more than that, and to be honest, i really dont mind my 17" CRT screen size

19" wide is plenty, plus, i wanna play crysis on high (possibly very high)...
 
just a noob said:
crt's are actully better for gaming, as they have no actual lag between signal and display
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When LCD's were new to the market, I would agree. While this is still true LCD's today have response times as low as 2-4ms, which is significantly faster then the 20ms+ LCD's of years ago. Not to mention that LCD's use less power, have brighter displays, much smaller, etc.

They are even coming up with LCD's that will turn off pixels to achieve the true black similar to CRT's, which will give them huge 10,000:1 (or was it 100,000:1?) contrast ratios.
 
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