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Is my 4890 old hat?

Narj

Narj

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Hi all,

I'm toying with an upgrade (read: new build) and was wondering whether I should keep my 1GB 4890 card. The real bottleneck seems to be my older E6300 OC'd CPU - whenever I get lag in games it seems to be tied to high CPU usage, otherwise this card just seems to chew up stuff quite nicely at 1920x1200.

Should I consider something else or keep it?
 
PianoBasher said:
Hi all,

I'm toying with an upgrade (read: new build) and was wondering whether I should keep my 1GB 4890 card. The real bottleneck seems to be my older E6300 OC'd CPU - whenever I get lag in games it seems to be tied to high CPU usage, otherwise this card just seems to chew up stuff quite nicely at 1920x1200.
Should I consider something else or keep it?
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What he said :D
 
HD4890 is spot on card, still using mine for gaming, never have a problem!

If you are not willing to spend much money,upgrade to something like E8500 or Q9xxx CPU's!
 
angela said:
HD4890 is spot on card, still using mine for gaming, never have a problem!

If you are not willing to spend much money,upgrade to something like E8500 or Q9xxx CPU's!
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I think I really want an i7 - I think the leap in performance justifies the cost now (I'm one of those people who holds off for ages for an upgrade!).

The money I save on a GPU can be spent on an SSD (or two), instead then by the looks of it! :D

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-048-OC&tool=3

Mmmmm! Goodness!
 
Just play your games and when the framerate gets annoying, upgrade.

I'm on a slower 5770 and still haven't been annoyed enough to upgrade. All my games play fine.

You'll know when its time to upgrade. I'd upgrade your CPU first, as you suggested.
 
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still running 2 of them....marvelous cards! just been playing NFS hot pursuit on my new 24in monitor one single card mode......flys along, nothing i have thrown at it has slowed it down yet (disclaimer......except crysis!)
 
I think I'll look at a new system as a Chrimbo prezzie to myself :p Cheers for the input. I might save myself a load of hassle and get a barebones/custom machine prebuilt and shove my soundcard, dvd writer and GPU in there. :D Call me lazy but I just cba building one from scratch now, I'd rather spend what PC time I do get gaming rather than building!

I'll seek advice in GH come next payday ;)
 
PianoBasher said:
I think I'll look at a new system as a Chrimbo prezzie to myself :p Cheers for the input. I might save myself a load of hassle and get a barebones/custom machine prebuilt and shove my soundcard, dvd writer and GPU in there. :D Call me lazy but I just cba building one from scratch now, I'd rather spend what PC time I do get gaming rather than building!

I'll seek advice in GH come next payday ;)
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Doesn't take that long to build though, especially if you have done it before ;)
 
Building comps these days are easy. Not like it used to be. These days for me anyways installing windows is the part that takes the longest but hey if ya got the cash to blow they have some pretty good prebuilts.
 
colzboppo said:
I'd build my own PC anyway even if I did have loadsa' monay

a. its fun to build PC's
b. you can completely customize it to your preference
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a.) It is when you haven't spent loads of time fiddling about with friends'/neighbour's PCs and are sick of the sight of them! :p Also it depends on what value you place on your time. I don't mind a few quid for someone else to do a full burn-in test of HDD, Memory, CPU.

b.) I don't think that's a valid point anymore, most places will build whatever you like these days. :D
 
i have an i7 and kept my 4890, bought another one for CF - On BO - max settings, antiA X 4 etc, i get 200 - 250 FPS so im really chuffed with mine still.. Saying that, i am looking at the new 69XX or 580
 
I agree with those that have suggested that you upgrade the cpu first. Until recently I had a 4890, primarily as a reserve card, but I did try it in my rig for a good few weeks to see how it handled some of the titles I like to play. To my surprise it handled demanding games like Clear Sky (heavily modded, dx10 etc) well with smooth, playable frame rates.
 
Superjeep4x4 said:
Building comps these days are easy. Not like it used to be. These days for me anyways installing windows is the part that takes the longest but hey if ya got the cash to blow they have some pretty good prebuilts.
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It was never hard, been building them since the 486 days. The only difference these days are the cases aren't made of razor blades :)
 
arc@css said:
I agree with those that have suggested that you upgrade the cpu first. Until recently I had a 4890, primarily as a reserve card, but I did try it in my rig for a good few weeks to see how it handled some of the titles I like to play. To my surprise it handled demanding games like Clear Sky (heavily modded, dx10 etc) well with smooth, playable frame rates.
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Yeah I keep on getting the urge to upgrade mine, but it still plays everything I own at playable framerates at 1920x1200.
 
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