4850

OLD 8800GTS 640 MB SLI V 4850

POWERSUPPLY: Tagan 700W TG700-U25 Dual Engine SLI Ready Power Supply

Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe nForce4 SLI Chipset LGA775 Supports Core 2 Duo CPU FSB1066 DDR2/800 Mainboard

CPU: (Sckt775)Intel® CoreT 2 Duo E6600 CPU @ 2.4GHz 1066FSB 2x2MB L2 Cache EM64T

My PC gives out a lot of heat, so going down to a 4850 would this resolve the problem
and still keep performance at 1024 - 768

So is the 4850 a better option than my old 8800gts in sli

Thanks for your reply. The majority of the heat comes from the back
of the PC from the PSU.
Could you suggest another possible solution, thanks

The card its self doesnt "run hot", rather the heatsink is too small for it.

So would everyone agree that the 4870 would be my best option.
Considering i have only ever upgraded my sound card and ram.
So i have little upgrade experience

just a vanilla 48xx with a accelero S1. I would rather attach it my self anyway.

Common people- he has a heat problem and he asks about 4850? And you tell him to get (nicely) faster and more cool 4870 for extra 100$?

You can spend ~50$ on a decent VGA cooler and getr 4850 temps down to 30idle / 40 load. The card itself is pretty cool. That’s why ATI dared to go with a single slot cooling solution. Its the crapy cooling solution that makes the card hot, not the chip itself.

Thank you skittle. I like the taste of your rainbow.

I agree the 4850 doesn't actually give out much heat compared to other high end cards...its just that the cooler isnt as good as other cards and therefore the card itself runs hotter. In cards with better coolers (or a 4850 with aftermarket cooler) the heat doesnt just magically disappear. People seem to think that because the core is cooler then somehow the rest of their system is going to be cooler. Turning up the fan speed on the 4850 might cool the core, but it will achieve this by chucking out more of that heat into the rest of your system.

If heat is a concern....then get a card that exhausts the heat from the back...ie the 4870.