4850 or 4870 for 1280x1024 resolution?

unless you're playing intensive games like Crysis and/or games with ultra high AF and AA settings, the the 4850 will probably be all that you need.

For 1280x1024 definitely gof or HD 4850

Get 4 4850's in crossfire.

...or just one will do for your purposes.

thanks guys.ive made my decision.4850 ftw

Spend the extra money on a new monitor You won't believe how good a 22" is until you got one.

I would want one if I knew my 9600GT would run that res Plus I don't have the money for one

But, you can just crank that eye candy to max in every game you play!!! And I mean, force it thru the drivers til it bleeds eye candy eye candy heheh

I have a 22" Compaq CRT that I game on, a P1220 which I absolutely love (besides that fact that the back of it stretches into the next ZIP code)! Anyway, I was wondering if you could shed a little more light onto "Eye candy over resolution for CRTs". What res should I be rockin' right now? For reference, I have an 8800 GT @700/1000, but will be probably going to a 4870 or 9800 +.

Well the HD 4870 is better than a 9800GTX,no doubts about it but the difference isn't really huge IMO

also to profle,dont change your card, the difference isnt worth the money IMO, 8800GT is a solid card

Well if somone hasn't buy a card and wants to buy, then i recommend the HD 4850/4870 but when someone for example has a 8800GT then i don't recommend him/her to upgrade to a HD 4870 because a 8800GT is still enough for good gaming

Well if you are using a monitor that only supports 1280 x 1024 then it doesn't make any sense to get a 4870 over a 4850 even if you have a million dollars. Performance difference isn't there.

(Although, I suppose if you had a million dollars you would be able to upgrade your monitor as well :-P)

No I won't!
If I'd buy such a monitor then I won't be able to work at office with that 17" Dell.

I am playing Quake Wars on 800x600 on a 24" CRT and driven by a GeForece 6600GT and it looks awesome even with the low resolution. Never liked high resolutions in games, makes everything so small.

The reason for buying a something like a 4870 over a 4850 for a low rez isn't for the immediate future. No you won't see large difference. But as the hardware demands for new games increase you will start to see a performance gap open up between a 4870 and a 4850. So it depends how long you plan to keep the card.

I just went from a 19" Dell CRT (crap) to a 24" BenQ LCD (none of that TN **** either)...and yea, my socks are STILL blown!

Agreed^^^ HD 4850 > 9800GTX > 8800GT (However the difference isnt very much)

What does that matter? The 3870x2 kept up with the 8800GTX so ATI did have a lead for a short time. The GTX280 doesn't really beat out the 9800GTX2. Since the 8800GTX launch I don't think either company has been especially impressive.

The 4850 is a really nice card for the price point and seems to do fairly well in crossfire. The 4870 hasn't impressed me all that much in comparison since it's not a huge improvement on the 4850. If I were buying now I'd definitely consider a 4800 series card even though my last 2 builds have used nvidia cards.

Thanks for the replies to my resolution question. Not to change the subject TOO much, but, since we are hashing out the differences between 88/9800s and the 4800 line, does anybody know if the 4850 or 4870 is compatible with the Accelero S1 Rev 2? I happen to have one, with the little fan module, and because I know it's compatible with the 9800 GTX+, I was considering the Nvidia over the 4800s so that I could use the Accelero.