hi guys, im planning buy a vc. either a 4850 or 9800gt. i know the 4850 is faster but how much faster is it given these specs? i think both cards would be bottlenecked, but i still expect to see a few performance gain. am i right?
You shouldn't be bottlenecked to much. You might want to overclock that CPU a bit if you can, probably be pretty hard with an actual Intel board. The 4850 is ~ to the 9800GTX. The 9800 is ~ to the 4830. I would get the cheapest of the those three cards, four if you can find the 8800GT. Assuming we are talking about running at 16x10 or smaller.
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No. The order would be 9800GTX+ > 4850 > 9800GTX > 9800GT ~ 4830. The 9800GTX was just a bit slower then the 4850, which is why Nvidia came out with the 9800GTX+.