Does Memory clock speed and Core clock speed matter

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#1 ndrewn
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Does Memory speed and Core clock speed matter for your video card?
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#2 GP1mil
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Yes the higher they are the faster they can perform, but don't jack it all the way up as you can kill the card or possible short the system
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Yes, but hardware are more important, for ex. a 8600gt OC have faster clock speedthan 8800GT but 8800are faster anyway.

Amount shader and memory bandwidth are crucial to.

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#4 ndrewn
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So does the 3850 have faster shader and bandwith than the 8600 because mine has faster core clock and memory.
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#5 broseybrose
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more important than clock speed i the architechture of the card... thats why an 8800gtx has a core clock of 575 and is still the best card on the market more than a year later.
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#6 broseybrose
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in other words, you can get an idea how the car will perform by looking at the specs, but the real truth lies within gaming benchmarks...
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Well my 8600 is 730/2260 so should I stick with that or get a hd 3850
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#8 broseybrose
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well im sure that a new hd3850 will outperform an 8600 by a wide margin... look at some benches and decide if the difference in performance is woth the difference in money youll have :)
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#9 swehunt
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Yepp, HD3850 outperform a 8600GT(S) in ewrything by far, hec, it´s compared to a Nvidia 8800GTS 312, there very simular in Game/3Dmark benchmarks

Well my 8600 is 730/2260 so should I stick with that or get a hd 3850ndrewn

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