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Upgrade from HD 3850, if at all?

jonbxx

jonbxx

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Back in the mists of time, I built up the following machine;

Intel E8450
Asus P5KR Motherboard
4GB RAM
OCUK Radeon HD 3850

Over the years, I have added an SSD and upgraded to Windows 8 (i know, but I love it, a major improvement over Vista that I had before)

I'm not a gamer unless you count the kids playing CBeebies flash games. I do however watch a fair amount of video, including 1080p sources. I also use spreadsheets a lot and it's for this reason, I was considering upgrading my old 19" monitor to this one.

My question is, will my current card run this screen? I know the specs for the 3800 series cards say yes but I would like to check if this is for real. If not, what would you recommend as an upgrade? I was thinking something in the £50-70 range if needed.

Many thanks in advance!
 
Your current card will be fine if you just want to watch videos :) What connection choices are on the back of the GPU though?
 
Tonester0011 said:
2x DVI iirc. So fine for that monitor.

Edit: I thought those cards supported 1440p?
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2098*1311 is the highest DVI will allow, unless I have it wrong? My memory isn't what it used to be.

Edit:

Ignore me if it has 2*dvi connections. I was having a blonde moment :)
 
My card has 2 DVI sockets. They look like Dual Link ones according to the socket layout on Wikipedia. There's also an S-video connection believe it or not!

I'm torn between getting a new card anyway and just giving it a try. £36 for that 5450 is very tempting...
 
I imagine it would work - assuming the DVI is the dual link type.

Probably worth getting the monitor and trying it before buying a new card.
 
That card will be fine.

Out of interest, I've never seen a DVI on any GFX card that was not dual link, never heard it even mentioned until I believe one of the ATI 7000 series manufactures stuffed a crippled DVI on one of the cards, someone please put me straight if they know better ?
 
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