4850 worth it?

Bored_Gamer · Mar 30, 2013

Is the Power color 4850 good for the price of $70?

spentshells · Mar 30, 2013

No it isn't a used 5770 or 6770 should be in that price range and possibly used that card could fetch 35 dollars maybe

Bored_Gamer · Mar 30, 2013

it is a power color hd 4850 1gb 256-bit ddr5 btw. I am tight on the budget now and I want to play games with atleast 40-50 fps.

gert21445 · Mar 30, 2013

Hi! I'd say that while the Radeon HD 4850 is not a bad card per-say, it is serveral generations old and thus, I'd recommend getting something like a HD 7750, which, for around $10-20 more, performs on average up to 25% faster than the HD4850, while consuming only half the power at peak (110w vs 55w). furthermore, the HD 7750, being a current generation card, gets all of AMD's newest driver and feature updates that frequently improve performance in new games, while the HD4850 has been put on legacy support (no new features or optimizations). Newegg often has rebates on their video cards, which may bring the price down to around $70. Check this out:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131481

Good luck on your video card shopping!

Bored_Gamer · Mar 30, 2013

7750 sounds like a good card... I need more input on this though will 7750 run most of the new games on medium-high settings? I have a thing for eye candy...

spentshells · Mar 30, 2013

Bored_Gamer :

What resolution is the monitor?

Bored_Gamer · Mar 30, 2013

resolution is 1440x900

huilun02 · Mar 30, 2013

Yah you should get medium-high eye candy with a 7750 on that 19" monitor

Bored_Gamer · Mar 30, 2013

I mainly play skyrim and farcry

huilun02 · Mar 30, 2013

Try to get a 7750 with 2Gb of vram, it helps with rendering the large open areas and textures in Skyrim/Far Cry 3. Especially when you mod your games. More vram will also come in handy when you upgrade to a higher resolution monitor.

Bored_Gamer · Mar 30, 2013

2gb ddr3 is better than 1gb of gddr5?

whyso · Mar 30, 2013

No one GB gddr5 is much better than 2 gb ddr3. You are playing at 900p and the 7750 is far to slow to need more than 1GB ram.

huilun02 · Mar 30, 2013

whyso :

Ah I didn't look at the gddr type when looking for options. True 1gb gddr5 will outperform 2gb gddr3.

Bored_Gamer · Mar 31, 2013

Now to look for benchmarks for the games that I would like to play

huilun02 · Mar 31, 2013

My previous rig was also 1440x900 using a HD 4870 which is in the same performance bracket as the 7750. Played games at medium without difficulty. 7750 is a 7k series which still benefits from the latest driver updates, so you can do high settings at acceptable frame rates.

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