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Best sub £100 card?

Hold on JAG1977. Wait for the 4850. It might be £130 but it's beating the 8800GTX in most games. Even at 2560x1600 with 4xAA :D.

If that's a little more than you'd like to pay then I'd say go for the 8800GT. That would whoop your old card.

EDIT: Need to refresh quicker :o (oops). Yeah or the above but I'd rather get the 8800GT as an upgrade. Especially if you like AA. The 4850 would be the best option it looks like but a bit dearer than what you've specified.
 
8800GT can be found for just under £100. A few will probably appear on the MM for less than that soon though.

Other choice from new is a 9600GT, which can be found for £85. Faster than the 3850, but not quite as quick as the 8800GT.
 
neon.uk said:
It would have to be a 3850 then - the 4850 might be too much of a stretch if you are strictly under 100 quid.

Maybe this
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So what kind of performance difference are we talling about here?

When I bough the X1950XTX it was top of the range and is still good enough for rfactor, but I'd like a 25%+ performance jump to deal with large fields and a new HDR pluging that's been released.
 
You should really stretch for an 4850... its a kiiller card and offers staggering performance for its value, especially for gaming with 4xAA and 16AF. An ideal resolution would be 1680x1050 but it can also handle 1920x1200 pretty well as well.

Vote for that. 3850 aint bad and can be found cheaply but the 4850 is around 2x faster. and more with the AA/AF turned on.
 
3870 should be around for sub £100 new?

Also, you could wait for 4850 to possibly dip to £100, the X1950XTX is still a decent card depending on how picky you are/ what res you game at
 
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fraps said:
3870 should be around for sub £100 new?

Also, you could wait for 4850 to possibly dip to £100, the X1950XTX is still a decent card depending on how picky you are/ what res you game at
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1920x1080

But it's only for rfactor, some tracks fps can be upto 100, others, with a full grid, down to 30.
 
Why not go Nvidia and get the 8800 GT for only £94, its the best card below £100, and spanks both 3850/3870. :confused:

Andr3w said:
whats the 4850 like compared to the 8800gt?
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4850 spanks it, and the GTS, and the 9800 GTX, especially when you slap the AA on/up. :)
 
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MoodyB said:
Going by this :

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=2351&cid=3&pg=6

A 1950XTX gets 33fps in Fear @ 1600x1200/ 4xAA / 8xAF with a 2.66GHz C2D

An HD 3870 gets 35fps in Fear at the same res / AA / AF / cpu :

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=2501&cid=3&pg=4

If that's reasonably accurate, I wouldn't consider the 3870 as it's hardly going to give you much more than what you have. Has to be the 4850 or a clocked 8800GT at least.
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For £100, I'm looking for at least a 50% performance upgrade, any less isn't worth it for one game, IMO.
 
MoodyB said:
Going by this :

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=2351&cid=3&pg=6

A 1950XTX gets 33fps in Fear @ 1600x1200/ 4xAA / 8xAF with a 2.66GHz C2D

An HD 3870 gets 35fps in Fear at the same res / AA / AF / cpu :

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=2501&cid=3&pg=4

If that's reasonably accurate, I wouldn't consider the 3870 as it's hardly going to give you much more than what you have. Has to be the 4850 or a clocked 8800GT at least.
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That's if you want to make a whole decision based on a single game.....I had a massively overclocked and overvolted x1900xt 512mb, went to a 3850 512mb and even @ stock it absolutely slaughtered the overclocked x1900
 
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