Replacement for 8800gt

[Swordfish125]

Hi,

I have a 8800gt in my current box, its ok but recently ive had the rather annoying nvld driver crash with windows vista. It 1st happened with World in conflict but went away with a patch. Its reared its head again whilst playing Warhammer online and it beginning to **** me off. Ive tried drivers but the new ones were even worse, ive now gone back to the 169's which seem a little better.
Ive tried everything, memtests, bios update, sound driver update etc etc, with not much luck.

So ive decided to replace it with a ATI card. Im looking for a straight swap in terms of performance, my case cant accommodate any of the new huge cards, i have a 550w PSU.
Im looking at these two:

4670:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Basically a budget option, i cant see this being as good as the 8800gt but it should Run War and Stalker clear sky?


Or this 4850:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-095-PC

Is the 4850 similar in size to a 8800gt? it looks it from the picture, no dimensions in specs.
I do like the look of the 4850 a lot, is it better than a 8800gt? and will it run off a 550w PSU? this shoudl handle most of my games?

Thanks

Fish

 

[mysticsniper]

4850, close thread

 

[grudas]

4850, close thread

+1 bad comparision 4670 with 4850 ;P it's same like comparing 8600gt with 8800gt

 

[Swordfish125]

I know nothing about GFX cards. Will the 4850 run on a 550w PSU?

My specs are:

Q6600 quad 2.4ghz
4gig Ram
550w PSU
500gb HDD think 7200rpm?
512mb 8800gt?

After power the main thing im worried about is size, cause i know some cards are huge now....

 

[2Thumbs]

Depends on the make and the amp rating on the 12v rail.

 

[Swordfish125]

How do i find that out? Im guessing atm that it wont have enough power.

 

[mysticsniper]

My nephew has an Corsair 520w Psu and the is running an 4850 GPU no probs.

 

[C64]

It ran an 8800gt of course it will run a 4850.
It's about the same size as an 8800gt may even be smaller.

 

[adamsleath]

8800gt very similar power draw to 4850..4850 is a teeny bit more at approx 110W (~10A)
not sure what your actual driver problem is, maybe something else is corrupted in your windows install - it happens from time to time.

i guess youll get a small boost from 4850 vs 8800gt.

ive 'heard' that 4850 can match a 9800gtx at high graphics settings. there are exceptions, for some games prefer nvidia cards to ati cards and vice versa

 

[Swordfish125]

The driver thing is driving me banannas! Ive tried reinstalls etc with no luck. It is a Known problem with vista, but nvidia claim its hardware (which ive tested) or windows and MS blaim the drivers blah blah. THen Nvidia said it was a driver problem and still havnt fixed it......

Im Prob gonna Try antoher reinstall but i think ill still grab a ATI card cause ive inda lost the faith in nvidia, plus the 4850 is a good price imo.

ONe last question, is it worth getting 1gb Ram for extra £30? notice much difference?

Thanks for helping the noob!

 

[ACESHIGH]

The 1GB card will only be marginally quicker than the 512MB card, so i would keep the £30 if thats what it is extra and get the 512MB card.

Having siad that at OcUK the Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4850 PCS Extreme 1024MB on TOW is priced pretty well and only ~ £10 more for the extra ram so worth a look.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

4850 is faster, even more so when using AA, the 4670 would be a downgrade as its only around 3850 performance, which is quite a bit slower than an 8800 GT.

PSU should power it fine if its powered your 8800 GT with no trouble, you'll find what the ratings are by taking the side of your case off and looking on the PSU itself, as it will have a sticker on saying what it can output.

Also CLAIMED

Yay my first one. \o/

 

[ninjabib]

I'm using a 4850 on a 400w PSU so go for it, great card!

 

[Rroff]

I'd hardly say 4850 over a 8800GT is worth it... specially with the 177 and 180 drivers boosting G92 (and higher) performance... and from my experience if your getting the nv driver errors then theres a good chance that you will get the dreaded GPU recovery error with ATI too.

If your going to spend money atleast go for the 4870 which is moderatly faster than the 8800GT.

If you really want to spend money on a straight swap then the 4850 will give you better performance than the 8800GT.

 

[C64]

I would say it is I had an 8800 gt couldn't acheive 60 fps for most things and forget enabling anti aliasing.
The 4850 can do both.