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Is an ATI 3870 for $100 a good buy to replace my 7900gs KO?

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Would the performance increase be worth it for $100?

Total: 5 votes (2 blank votes)

  • Oh YEAH a Massive difference... Price is awesome!
  • 67 %
  • You would get an alright gain, but the price is a little high
  • 34 %
  • Not worth it, the gain wouldn't be that big to warrent the $100
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Graphics card Authority

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LoL but true.
The 3870 would be a very nice upgrade from a 7900GS.
The 4850 will be a massive upgrade.
Save a little more and get something twice as good.

I have enough for it, people at the ncixforums are telling me though that it wouldn't really work with my computer and that it would be a bottleneck,

my system is the following:
DFI lanparty ultra-d UT NF4
Athlon64 3700+ oc'ed to 2.5Ghz
4x512mb kingston value ddr400
Mushkin HP550 (brand new)
so would getting the 4850 still be worth it or would it be bottle necked to the same performance as the 3870?

Thanks

EDIT: and it is 100 dollars more if you add in tax and shipping and probably boarder fees :p  if its from the states, but I can get it for 185 before shipping and tax with instant rebate at ncix, and I hate MIR so it really isn't 159...
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Hells yes!
Even bottlenecked by the CPU, it will let you turn up much more eye candy/AA/AF than the 3870. When you decide to upgrade the rest of your platform you will be in an even better situation. Much better choice than a 3870.

yeah I know I want there asus P5Q pro and the E8400 and of course some DDR2 ram, I am saying good buy to both nvidia and AMD, cept I am not really saying good buy... since they are ATI lol :p  confusing stuff lol It will run me like 400 dollars for all I need, minus the video card which I will most likely get first...
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You could always get a P5Q-E for $160 and a E2180 for $70. Even at stock speeds, the E2180 will outperform a 4400x2 and it can be massively overclocked very easily. Total including GPU is around $400.

forgetting the ram though i gor ddr1 :p  if i were to upgrade i would prob go for the 8400, probably would add a huge difference in performance compared to the 2150, although it is a very tempting cpu, definitely a good cpu though for the price...
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Sorry, I am at work so I can't see everything :pt1cable: 
So make it about $440 then as RAM is cheap.

Yes, the E8400 will be much better at stock and can be overclocked to 3.6-4.0Ghz with relative ease. The E2180 should be able to match the E8400 for stock speeds when overclocked but will likely perform about 10% slower due to lost cache. Either would be an excellent upgrade from a 3700+ but you are correct, the E8400 will net you better performance. Maybe not as huge of a diffrence as you may think, but better none the less.
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