8800GT 512mb vs 4850 512mb

nlel1975 · 17 Jul 2008 at 14:27

I am just changing my PC and I bought a 8800GT 512mb from my brother for £ 60 which keeps things in budget, a 4850 would cost me £ 45 more inc delivery as I don't pay VAT as I`m in Jersey.

Is it worth me selling the 8800GT on ebay to get my money back and getting the 4850 instead, I didn't think the 4850 was a £ 45 better graphics card.

TheRealDeal · 17 Jul 2008 at 16:29

I would say it was 45 pound better than the gt. A lot of users on here have went from a gt to a 4850 so they must think so also.

Devious · 17 Jul 2008 at 16:36

A 4850 will come in to its own with lots of AA, at stock without AA i dont think it would be a much noticable improvement over the GT.

Alpherah · 17 Jul 2008 at 17:01

Depends what your gonna be playing really, and what rez.

£45 better it is, but only if you actually need the performance increase.

mmorpheus1 · 17 Jul 2008 at 17:15

nlel1975 said:
I am just changing my PC and I bought a 8800GT 512mb from my brother for £ 60 which keeps things in budget, a 4850 would cost me £ 45 more inc delivery as I don't pay VAT as I`m in Jersey.

Is it worth me selling the 8800GT on ebay to get my money back and getting the 4850 instead, I didn't think the 4850 was a £ 45 better graphics card.

Try it out first and see what you think , prices may well drop over the next few weeks after you have had a play around with the 8800GT

TheRealDeal · 17 Jul 2008 at 17:15

Whats you max resolution on your monitor and system specs may help others to give you a better opinion.

nlel1975 · 17 Jul 2008 at 17:25

TheRealDeal said:
Whats you max resolution on your monitor and system specs may help others to give you a better opinion.

The thing is I don't play games that much, but I have a 24" monitor capable of 1920*1200. I don't usually change the graphics settings from what is recommended as optimal by the game.

I`m not one to configure the graphics options to get the best visual although I would like to play at 1920*1200 but I wouldn't mind going lower.

System Spec:

Q6600 @ 3.4ghz
8GB RAM

Rroff · 17 Jul 2008 at 17:49

at 1920x you would see a bigger gain from the 4850 over 1680x and lower - however personally I'd stick with the 8800GT as I'm not an ATI fan.

TheRealDeal · 17 Jul 2008 at 17:52

I would pay the 45 and get the 4850 will be better at your max res and you have the system to run it properly.

wellibob · 17 Jul 2008 at 18:12

stay with the GT, and squint for bonus AA & AF features. Ive not been blown away with the new Ati cards , but i got one anyway !

Big.Wayne · 17 Jul 2008 at 18:18

Rroff said:
I'm not an ATI fan.

If you ain't an ATI fan by now you must be a real stubborn nVidia fanboy!

And a a real stubborn nVidia fanboy would only be happy paying £600 for his GPU? because if it wasn't for ATI that's exacty what would happen. . . .

cmon Rroff let it go, the war is well and truly over!

Big.Wayne · 17 Jul 2008 at 18:29

nlel1975 said:
I bought a 8800GT 512mb from my brother for £ 60

Nice!

Hard to beat that in terms of *Bang-For-Buck*

The 8800GT is a great card and kept me happy for several months but as soon as I saw early HD4850 results I decided to flog it quickly and pick up a new Radeon.

nlel1975 · 17 Jul 2008 at 18:45

Big.Wayne said:
Nice!

Hard to beat that in terms of *Bang-For-Buck*

The 8800GT is a great card and kept me happy for several months but as soon as I saw early HD4850 results I decided to flog it quickly and pick up a new Radeon.

Yeah and I don't really play games that much but the 8800GT is still a very capable card, if I bought the 4850 it would purely be for benchmarks which is not necessarily a bad thing.

Its_Me · 17 Jul 2008 at 19:21

I went from 8800GT overclocked unit, to 4870 - then back down to a 4850.

The 4850 is where its at, unless you need >1680 then the 4870 gives you that little extra grunt.

Rroff · 17 Jul 2008 at 19:40

Big.Wayne said:
If you ain't an ATI fan by now you must be a real stubborn nVidia fanboy!

And a a real stubborn nVidia fanboy would only be happy paying £600 for his GPU? because if it wasn't for ATI that's exacty what would happen. . . .

cmon Rroff let it go, the war is well and truly over!

I'm not a huge nVidia fan - but I hate the ATI drivers (still)

Big.Wayne · 17 Jul 2008 at 19:53

"I hate the ATI drivers"

why?

Mercurial · 17 Jul 2008 at 20:54

Big.Wayne said:
"I hate the ATI drivers"

why?

I don't know about the OP but I've hated ATI drivers since the introduction of the HD2xx series as they have broken a lot of the capability with older games which worked fine up to X1xx, wheras NV has actually been improving their compability in that regard.

May not be an issue for you if you only play the latest and greatest.

queamin · 17 Jul 2008 at 21:04

Mercurial said:
I don't know about the OP but I've hated ATI drivers since the introduction of the HD2xx series as they have broken a lot of the capability with older games which worked fine up to X1xx, wheras NV has actually been improving their compability in that regard.

May not be an issue for you if you only play the latest and greatest.

Not so sure about that aoc was bad for me on my 320 with missing textures and what not.

J.D · 17 Jul 2008 at 21:15

Mercurial said:
I don't know about the OP but I've hated ATI drivers since the introduction of the HD2xx series as they have broken a lot of the capability with older games which worked fine up to X1xx, wheras NV has actually been improving their compability in that regard.

May not be an issue for you if you only play the latest and greatest.

(cough) Call of duty 1 on any G80/G92 card has problems but none with ATI. I was playing a lot of that still about 7 months ago but my GTX is problematic in this game. It's the only issue I've had with either Nvidia or ATI. I never find bad support for ATI or Nvidia for older titles at all.

blackninja · 17 Jul 2008 at 21:16

I found these quite useful ...:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/HD_4850/23.html

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Diamond/HD_4870/23.html

I have thus decided to keep my GTX for a while yet!