What GPU to get?

SRcobra

SRcobra

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Heyy guys!
Im thinking about upgrading my GPU, its starting to struggled on some games at my resolution (1920x1080). Plus i want a better one :P
I was thinking along the lines of a 4850/9800GTX/8800GTX Kinda area.

My specs are in my sig, except my PSU which is a 600W StealthXstream, so it can handle a fair bit :) Budget is around £150/220$, if find something good on ebay then link that as well, UK only though please :)

Any thoughts/suggestions/ideas are appreciated :)

-Sach.
 
I second the 4850 been using it since it came out great card for the price.
 
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I was telling Levone to buy the 4850 and now ive asking for advice lol.
But yeh i like that HIS HD4850 and cheers for the Ebuyer link Kornowski (i always use them :P ), so its probs the one ill end up getting. Its good that you can have it in 3-way xfire and its still only takes up one slot :)
Cheers for the advice!

-Sach
 
This is gonna sound rather stupid but what does more memory contribute to?
does it means it performs better on higher resolutions that the 512MB version?
Will there be bottlenecking? (IDK what that is, if anyway wants to explain :?)
 
Yes the 1GB card will be best as your using a large resolution. I don't think any of your hardware would be bottlenecking it.

Bottlenecking is where.. say you have a processor and a graphics card. The processor is a 1.8GHz Dual Core and your graphics card is a Geforce 280GTX, even though you have this high powered graphics card the processor cant keep up and will stunt the performance.

My system has been bottlenecked past few days too ^_^ cos my processor hasn't come yet and i've already got my 9800GTX+ in, not running too well lol. Getting as low as 35fps on COD4 haha, but it is an old, possibly damaged E4400 2.0ghz ;)
This is a good example of bottlenecking, once my processor comes i should be averaging into the 100's.
 
Yeah ofcourse, all your programs will run well, and the games will load really fast, but once your actually ingame it won't run well. The combination is key!
 
SRcobra said:
This is gonna sound rather stupid but what does more memory contribute to?
does it means it performs better on higher resolutions that the 512MB version?
Will there be bottlenecking? (IDK what that is, if anyway wants to explain :?)
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In a nutshell, the 512 and 1gig will do the same as far as benchmarking at low res(maybe not exactly the same). However the 1gig will outshine the 512 at higher res's.
 
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