[Solved] HD4890 what's your openion

Hello,

I am going to buy XFX HD4890 XXX EDition it costs me approx $100.. No Pakage contents ONLY CARD.

Do you guys recommand me to buy or is this card worth for new games ?


Currently I have Installed GTS450, should I replace with that or HD4890 is good for today's generation games?

thanks,
arfarsh

I have a sapphire Radeon HD 4890. It does great for me on Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 Beta (sorry, I don't play any of the new 3d shooters). But it lacks DirectX 11.

You can get 5770/6770's for around $100. According to:

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 042-7.html

the cards are in the same tier, although the 4890 has slightly more raw power. But you have a GTS450, which is only one tier lower. I would definitely recommend staying with the same card or going higher as you're getting a relatively small increase in performance for going with a 4890 over the GTS450.

Probably a 6970 for ~170 is where I'd start if I were to upgrade from where you are. If you've never read the tom's hardware best graphics cards for the money, they're a great read.

The 4890 is faster than the 5770. 5770 about a bit faster than the 4870. Whats your native resolution?
Other factors also comes in as the 4xx series cards eat more power and run a bit hotter with more noise and no Dx 11 support

Heres a comparison between your current card and the 4890
http://www.hwcompare.com/7656/gefo [...] -4890-1gb/

dx11's missing .

The 4890 is not enough of a step up over you current card.
Save a few more bucks and aim a little higher, or you are going to feel like you just blew $100 for a useless upgrade.
Rule of thumb, you want to jump at least full 2 tiers when you upgrade a GPU or you won't see a very big difference or feel like the money you spent was worth it.

Thank you everyone for guiding me.
thanks again !!!