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4850 512mb enough for a 23/24" monitor?

saitrix

saitrix

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Hi,

Currently I am running a 4850 512mb at stock speeds on my 19" monitor, which it copes well with due to the res being only 1440x768. Now I was looking at a 16:9 23/24" monitor which means the native res is 1920x1080. Do people think that is asking far too much of this card? The only reason I am holding off upgrading is due to noise, I have fitted an aftermarket heatsink to keep it silent in my pc, now there seems to be good overhead from the heatsink so I could always overclock.

Can people remember how well these overclocked? Oh if it helps I have an e7200 (stock, motherboard is refusing to overclock it!) and 4gb ddr2 800 memory.
 
I think it will struggle at 1920x1200(or x1080) res, 512mb of vRAM is going to be a killer.

Wont be unplayable..but it will be a bit sluggish in some tasks.
 
It's going to struggle tbh, unless you don't mind lowering settings in more modern games.
 
I had a 4850 512mb sometime ago and my resolution at 1920x1200 was a bit of strain in modern games such as bfbc2 and bioshock 2, providing you dont mind low details in games its fine.
 
Should be fine if you don't mind lowering the AA/AF. They also OC quite well and providing you don't have a crappy card, you should be able to pull out nearly 4870 performance which isn't all that bad : ).
 
Hey saitrix :)

saitrix said:
Do people think that is asking far too much of this card?
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Well obviously a Radeon HD 4850 512MB is fine @ 1920x1200 for most tasks . . . for gaming that depends entirely what games you are talking about, what O/S you are running and how happy you are to "tinker" with the graphic options to keep things running nice and smooth . . .

The killer for 512MB cards @ 1920x1200 tends to be a combination of using high/ultra high graphic details *combined* with AA . . . . I did find that 1920x1200 res does not need a ton of AA as the high res cuts down on the jaggies . . .

Suck it and see basically, I'd rather game @ 1920x1200 with "tweaked" graphic details than at 1440x768 with uBer-Max graphics! :cool:
 
I'm on a 4870 512mb and recently bought a new 24" monitor at 1920x1080, It copes well, not really a noticable drop in a lot of my games. However as mentioned above some of the more modern games require a bit of tweaking to run nice and smooth.
 
Parky said:
4870 512mb
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The HD 4870 does have 80% faster memory frequency than the HD 4850 though so not sure if its an apples-to-apples comparison . . . both cards would still have the same vRam limit but the HD 4870 would be able to shuffle the data from A>B quite a bit faster . . . higher res = more data to shuffle . . .

I played COD:4 @ 1920x1200 with a Radeon HD 4850 512MB and "tweaked" graphic options . . . :cool:
 
1920 x 1200 x 32 bit color, 8 x 1024x 1024 = 8388608 bits per megabyte

1920x1200x32/8,388,608= 8.8Mb

Of course plenty more ram helps for gaming
 
Big.Wayne said:
Hey saitrix :)



Well obviously a Radeon HD 4850 512MB is fine @ 1920x1200 for most tasks . . . for gaming that depends entirely what games you are talking about, what O/S you are running and how happy you are to "tinker" with the graphic options to keep things running nice and smooth . . .

The killer for 512MB cards @ 1920x1200 tends to be a combination of using high/ultra high graphic details *combined* with AA . . . . I did find that 1920x1200 res does not need a ton of AA as the high res cuts down on the jaggies . . .

Suck it and see basically, I'd rather game @ 1920x1200 with "tweaked" graphic details than at 1440x768 with uBer-Max graphics! :cool:
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Hmm sounds like I will go for a new monitor then. Plus with me getting a 16:9 monitor it actually has only 90% of the pixels that a 16:10 monitor has, which will help out it only having 512mb.

By the sounds of it, it is time to overclock it. So then whats the best software to use for this?
 
@ Saitrix

Is that a Dolomite Sprint I spy in your sig. One damn rapid car in its day. 8.4 secs 0-60mph IIRC and that's faster than today's standard Golf GTI's.
 
VFM Addict said:
@ Saitrix

Is that a Dolomite Sprint I spy in your sig. One damn rapid car in its day. 8.4 secs 0-60mph IIRC and that's faster than today's standard Golf GTI's.
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Haha it is, I don't have it anymore but that is my old one there. It is one of the last ones, a W reg from 1980.


roderz88,

I don't have crossfire motherboard, plus noise is a premium to me.


Well a small update from me, it seems my motherboard has finally started letting me overclock again. So now my E7200 is at 3.25ghz, which I will carry on increasing, and I have got my 4850 to 700/2200. With all stuff stock it got 39.2 fps in the Mafia 2 benchmark, after overclocking I now get 48.5 fps. So seems like it has given it that little extra grunt it needs.
 
saitrix said:
By the sounds of it, it is time to overclock it. So then whats the best software to use for this?
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i use msi afterburner.
on some cards (i have a little ol hd4770) if you increase the core voltage, (some cards you can't) you can get a bigger OC and it can run more stable.

then use furmark to test stability and temps

edit ^^^^ should have read the whole thread^^^^:o
 
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