Hd 4850 enough for 22"?

Looks alright to me. The value in upgrading to ddr3 over ddr2 is dubious at best, but the prices are starting to come down a lot so it might be worth considering now.

A 4850 will definitely run all the new games on your 22" monitor, just try to get the 1gb version if you can, it helps at higher resolutions, like yours.
I have a 4850x2 and sometimes I just disable the Crossfire so I'm actually just running 1 4850 1gb, and I can play everything at medium-high settings at 1680x1050.

HD4850 is a good card which can play most of the games at best settings!


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HD4850 is enough for 1680X1050 resolution.
It won't max out each game at that resolution but it will run all of them at high at least.

 

BTW Which PSU do you have?

To be honest I wouldn't put a 4850 in a new PC unless you were getting a REALLY good deal on it. It is a last gen card and is now starting to show its age a little. on a 22" I would look at something along the lines of a 5770 or better. My buddy just built an AMD machine with a 965 and just installed a 5770. It run really well at that resolution. He actually came from a 4850 and it was starting to show it's age on the newer games. I think you will find yourself upgrading in the very near future if you go with that. What options do you have? is this a pre-built or are you or someone else building this and you have any choice?

had one of my 4850's running a 24inch (1920*1200) and a 19inch (1440*900) at the same time without a hitch... crysis is an issue, but the rest (COD whatever, bfbc2, tf2, ) all max res, max detail, some AA AF, and it wont drop below 35's, and thats only when you join a oversize server and are in the main battle... i have a 512mb version fyi

The physical size of the monitor is not relevant to the performance you will get with using a certain video card. It only provides a general idea of the resolution of your monitor.

Your 22" monitor runs at 1680x1050 natively? It's the resolution that matters to pass down judgment on GPU performance. I agree that the 4850 is probably enough for 1680x1050, but it's last year's tech. Like someone above said, get the 4850 only if you found a great bargain. Otherwise, A 5750 (which performs at par with the 4850, with decreased power consumption) would be better, and can game decently up to 1920x1200.

^5750 doesn't game decently upto 1920X1200.

For that recommend at least a 5770.

With the same performance, I'd say 4850 is a better deal over 5750.
Take 5770 into consideration.

In my experience, it does. Among the games I've played at 19x12 with all settings maxed out are GRID, CoD4:MW, CoD:MW2, ME, Prototype, and Crysis:Warhead. Among them, only Crysis:Warhead can't run at top settings, which isn't much of a surprise, right? I could only set it to Mainstream with no AA to get 40+. If I set it to Gamer/Enthusiast I'd get 20-ish framerates at 19x12.

All the rest go from 55-80 with AA enabled.

But why get a 5750 when 4850 is priced at 95$ only.

Secondly, HD5770 is priced so close to 5750 which offers a good performance gain over 5750.