Need a little help choosing a graphics card :)

the 9800gt will serve you right with those games on a 19in, but if your like me and must have all the eye candy i would suggest the 4850.

I'd get the 4850 and i think it would be worth the 32 euros

well I don't know it performs great but at that low of a resoluton it won't really matter. Same thing for me I'm playing on a 17" dell from 3-5 years ago so my 9800GTX dosent really make a huge difference from a 9800Gt (my freind has one and we did the same benchies with my system just putting the different gfx cards in

Deafjimmy : how old is that LCD screen?

cow, maybe, just maybe, it would make a difference on a better LCD. And LCD's aren't too expensive. I can't believe your gaming with an old 17" dell LCD and that card. Your gaming experience could be way better.

I remember my old LCD laptop with a mobility 9000 looked better then most people's computers at the time because it had a good screen, just couldn't play later games with it. Not that I played much games at the time anyway, but whatever.

You always want to get the best card in your budget or what you feel is worth it. Tomshardware has a nice variety of benchmarks for you to look at too. Very easy to read, and you can pick the benchmark on the games you will be using.

And yeah, +1 for the 4850 over the other options for sure.

@habitat87
I bought it 3 years ago with my old dell. The computer was just released then but im not sure if the screen was released 3 years ago or maybe a lil bit more.

@jtt283
I dont know what brand and model i have because it came with the tower, heres the link to the tower that comes with the power supply and tried looking on other sites to see if they said what power supply came with it but had no luck.
http://www.appinformatica.com/torr [...] a-500w.php

And heres a link to the only site that I could find that would show a picture of the power supply
http://www.c-system.net/informatic [...] negra-.php
(What is the cleeves graphic card article?, is it the one where they say which are the best graphic cards for the month?)

@everyone else
Thanks for your input and I think ill be getting the 4850 which seems like the best midrange card now. Unless it doesnt work bc my power supply isnt good enough...

I could not view the closeups, but that looks like a typical cheap one that comes with a case. Particularly if that is a voltage switch in the back, it doesn't have Active PFC (Power Factor Correction), which all the better ones have now. I doubt it is capable of powering a 4850 safely. How many amps does it have on its +12V rail or rails?
Good brands include Antec, Corsair, Seasonic, PC Power & Cooling, OCZ, and Enermax. What brands of PSU are available to you?

And yes, that is the article I meant; the one which ends with a hierarchy chart ranking a lot of graphics cards.

Get 512mb. 1GB is overkill. The girl is a sales person, keep that in mind

You probably have to worry about your PSU. It looks like its a generic one so there's a chance it might not have enough power on the rails to power it. I also suggest that you move to Vista to take advantage of DX10 on your card. ATI 4800 series cards are known to perform better under vista than Nvidia. Also if you want to take advantage of DX10.1 you will need Vista and since 4850 is DX10.1 ready you might as well as use it to your advantage. I'm planning to get vista installed next week and have it dual boot with XP.

Well yes the frames do drop on vista but what I'm emphsizing on is the fact that you can get more eye candy with your graphics card and that in comparison to the nvidia competition it will do better on vista.

If I were you I would get the cheapest of the 3 because you can always overclock it yourself (if you're comfortable enough with Ocing) and only visiontek offers life time warranty so there's virtually no difference of the 3 choices that you've provided.

I wouldn't rekon you buy a case that comes with a PSU because 90% of the time they won't give you a good one unless the case itself is very expensive. My sister bought a Thermaltake Soprano case which came with a generic PSU and it died in just 3 months.

Power is a very crucial part of your case. It makes everything move so do consider spending a bit of money into it.

Well considering I have never OC before, and you lose the warranty if you overclok it right?, I think the 1 gb would be better bc it has 2000 mhz memory clock while the other one only has 1500 mhz memory clock.
But there is another 4850 that say it only has 993 mhz memory clock
http://www.appinformatica.com/tarj [...] 1-20r).php
Isnt that impossible?


But thats really confusing me bc I thought there wouldnt be that big of a difference between 2 different 4850s and another thing that made me think about was that if the 9800 gtx+ has 2200 memory clock and 738 core clock vs 625 on the 4850. Then why do people say the 4850 is better??
Why I say that made me think is because the 9800gtx+ is the same exact price as the 4850.


Anyways im really confused right now with all the grafics card if someone could explain to me what all the numbers mean right now It would help get rid of my headache :S