ATI Radeon™ HD 4250 Graphics versus GeForce 8800 GTX Graphics

I'm running a Biostar 880g+ motherboard, AMD Phenom II Black Edition multi core (just using two atm opposed to the possible 4), 8gb Corsair 1333. Mainboard has an ATI 4250HD graphics onboard, seems to run pretty nicely with everything so far. But i also have a Geforce 8800 GTX sitting here waiting for a bigger power supply.

dxdiag is showing 700mb memory on video with just the onboard and it runs at core clock of 400Mhz i believe.

The 8800GTX has 768Mb on it with a core clock of 575.


I'm wondering how much better the GeForce is versus what the onboard is. Should i buy this 8800GTX from a friend for 80 bucks and up my power supply or just use what i've got?

I play Everquest/EverquestII, Counterstrike, Left for Dead, Half Life 2 ...plan on gettin CoD MW3 soon and some of the other newer high GPU demand games.

for $80 you can get a newer card that's better than the 8800. and what's this multi core but only using 2 thing ?

What would you recommend for gaming that's better than the 8800 in the $100 range? PCIe 2.0 16

the 8800 isn't on this list because it's slower than everything else.... do your homework and you could end up with something good.......... then you can worry about the dual core processor slowing you down

http://www.guru3d.com/article/vga-charts-spring-2011/

For 20 extra bucks its a good bit better, thanks again.

Talked my buddy down to 40 dollars on the 8800 GTX) guess that's what i'm goin for at the moment.

how so?

it's old, it's hot, it guzzles electricity and the newer ones are faster, quieter, and better performers.

Sounds to me like your friend is trying to upgrade through you.

Newegg will show you a lot of better cards than the now ancient 8800 series for $80 and less.

Card at that price that will probably work in any system: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814102942

If you are jumping to a 700+W power supply, you are only limited by case space and/or your wallet. 8)

A 4250 is very low end for this day, so any currently SOLD 256-bit architecture card will be noticeably faster.

Just looked at the chart, my HD 5850 is top 5 tiers after at least 18-24 months? Shocked!
I haven't looked at cards in a while, I see the model # confusion game went even more nuts.

I would recommend it too. Wait for Black Friday.
Since it could allow you to get a brand new VGA with warranty, for almost same price (old 80 dollars), faster, DX11 allowed, cooler, less consumption.