[QUOTE="Newportzzz"]Ummm no. A 4850 does not have the same performance level of a 6850. Maybe if you crossfired but a single 6850 will def out-perform a single 4850 any day. So upgrading to a 6850 is not a bad upgrade at all. If his mobo has crossfire caps then i'd suggest maybe crossfiring 2 4850s' for cheaper cost than a single 6850 for the same performance level.swehunt
Outperform?, please expand that? Because a single HD4850 runs most games near or @ maximum ingames settings all the way up to 1080p, witch is the same settings you would run that HD6850, with that in mind does it really matter if the HD6850 is more powerfull? The few games the HD4850 is to weak the HD6850 also is. (crysis 1, Metro...) I would seriously reccomend waiting for some games to need the extra power before a upgrade. I got a gtx460 @ 935core / 2000mem witch is stronger than HD6850 and I also have a HD4850, i can tell you that they both play the exsact same games with the same settings, yes the gtx460 is stronger but in what game?
i agree with swe hunt on this post, i had two 4850's in crossfire and they were great performers and i still have mine as back up. At 1080p they ran solid.
i would only say go with Liquid cooling only if you really want to push your system but then again doesn't cyberpower offer free watercooling?? i could of sworn they did...
No i didnt unlink because no one said anything about that untill now. People always say "Ohh you have to overclock or else its a waste of money" and so i did. This is basicly why i dont overlock anything. I keep everything at factory default.
thingta42
how about actually trying to do your research before attempting to "overclock" and jumping in needlessly and fying something, do not blame others for your errors. If someone told you to overlock then you should of done the corrct type of research.
Hey guys im just wondering what the scores are generally for a GTX 580 on P in the benchmark and what a stock and Oc'd GTX 480 is as ive got my Single GTX 480 OC and scored a test of 6661 evil number i know but im wondering if its on part with a 580, my temps havent gone past 87 while doing so and the fans werent at 100%
hlhmark
thats an actually nice score ofr the oc you have, mine scored 6400 with my OC
Nvidia didnt buy aegia for free you know....sure they didnt make it but they have a big investiment in it.
I am sure they would let AMD licence it if they were willing to pay or else it could be deemed uncompetitive practice.....but physx has been a flop so far so I doubt they need to do that. I would be concerned about physx if I was a multi-card user but how can physx be justified with the kind of performance drop it gives on single cards is beyond me.....I'll rather play in 60FPS without physx than 40FPS with physx.
I know they didn't pick them up for nothing. I am just irritated at them for doing with physx what 3dfx did with glide. If nvidia hadn't picked up ageia or they didn't refuse to make it compatible with ati cards, physx would be nearly everywhere right now and I'd have an nvidia physx card in my system along with my 6950.
i agree with what your saying...but how many games actually utilize PysX these days anyways.
ahh i stand corrected, but aren't they part of nvidia though?
I respect AMD for not trying to standardize propriety software and make it exclusive to their hardware. For example a while back physx actually WORKED with a single radeon card and another geforce card dedicated to physx. Nvidia released drivers that disabled this feature because they didn't like that their software was also being used with another companies card without the other company licensing it. Its a disgusting practise and its not good for consumers. Not to mention the billions of dollars they spend to try to make sure that games run better on their hardware by writing code specifically tailored to their cards. You can call that marketing but I find things like that pathetic and illegal. A reason why I respect AMD is that you won't see them doing stuff like this and they are much more supportive of open source software. I personally won't be buying another geforce card until nvidia fixes their way.
GummiRaccoon
in all honesty i won't moatter pysx was developed by nvidia, so all in all if it's their software they have everyright in doing what they please to hold back from other companies being able to use, yes it is greedy but hey wth can you do they did develop it.
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