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Can my x1950xtx cut it these days?

EvilDreams

EvilDreams

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I was looking at the range of new cards available these days, I am on a budget so £100ish is what I want to spend, give or take a few quid.

The card I have seems only limited by its pitiful 256mb memory, but clockspeed/technical stuff wise it still beats most midrange offerings today as far as I can tell.

Would I notice a huge improvement getting something like a 4850? I have just gone from my "temporary" ASROCK dual-VSTA that was supposed to be replaced after a few months and ebayed mobo which only does x4 PCI-Express to a gigabyte ds3l which does x16 so there should be a speed boost from that, but is it time to replace the old beast?
 
for gaming most of the time, unless your x1950xtx already runs them perfectly fine or your playing flash games

boost will be noticeable
 
EvilDreams said:
The card I have seems only limited by its pitiful 256mb memory, but clockspeed/technical stuff wise it still beats most midrange offerings today as far as I can tell.
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Hmmm, you're a bit far off the mark there mate. A Radeon 4850 would be a big improvement over your current card - we're talking maybe four times as fast. I wouldn't upgrade unless you want to see the benefit though - I mean if you're running CS:S @ 1280x1024 for example you won't see a huge difference.
 
Four times as fast you say? I'm playing Empire: Total War at the moment. Could do with a speed boost in GTA4 too.

So compared to what I'm used to with the x1950xtx, a 4850 would blow my, um, socks off? I notice the clockspeed of most of them is lower than the 650 of my current card, that's the main reason I was sceptical about upgrading....it has been 2 years since I got it though. Cheers all for the advice.
 
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I upgraded to a x1950xtx from a x800xtpe and i was very dissapointed. I then upgraded to a 8800gt and its another world. do it.
 
It's a completely different architecture from the R580+, so despite lower clocks, it'll be far more powerful.
 
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Isn't the x1950xtx only available with 512MB? I've got one and have been thinking about upgrading. Looks to me like the 4870 would be about twice the performance but I thought I'd hold out a bit longer. Can still play all the games with ok'ish settings.
 
That's weird, I bought mine from OCUK and I'm sure it was called an XT Extreme. It's the one with the arctic cooling accelero fan. I'm pretty sure it's 256mb too.
 
XT extreme isn't the same as XTX. Either way, you would certainly notice the difference using a HD4850 for empire total war over your current card.
House mate is playing with his 8800GT, its running well, but ran it on a HD4870 other day when he borrowed a mates... beautiful.
 
reflux said:
Hmmm, you're a bit far off the mark there mate. A Radeon 4850 would be a big improvement over your current card - we're talking maybe four times as fast.
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Only under some situations. Going from my X1900XT 512mb to a HD4870 512mb I saw performance increases, generally in the area of 1.5x to 3x.
 
titaniumx3 said:
Only under some situations. Going from my X1900XT 512mb to a HD4870 512mb I saw performance increases, generally in the area of 1.5x to 3x.
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I've got an X1900XT at the moment. Seriously considering upgrading to a HD4850/70. Mainly because I think there really well priced.

My X1900XT is fine mind for all the games I've ever run. I've only got a 1280x1024 17" tft though, I suppose that makes a difference?
 
neon.uk said:
Clock speeds aren't everything when it comes to GFX cards.
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I'd say core clock speeds are almost irrelevant in fact when it comes to graphics cards. It's all about architectrue, number of shaders, rops, etc, size of memory bus and it's type. Core clock speed is probably the last thing that tells you how powerful a card is.
 
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