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What to do with old card?

chuck990

chuck990

chuck990

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So i recently replaced my good ol' 4850 with a shiny new MSI GTX580ti and am so far very happy. Question is, can i get any use out of my 4850?

It was a lovely card, i put memory heatsinks on and a vortex neo cooler and the card played crysis at full settings (without AA) at 25 FPS, not quite playable but more bang for buck than i could possibly of imagined.

Is it worth selling? I know new ones are now much less than £100 so quite frankly, i dont think it's going to make me a fortune... Can you have a secondary GFX card? I know you can (or used to be able to?) use a less powerful nvidea card as a dedicated physx card...
 
Keep it as a backup or sell it in the MM for around 30-40 or so. It will be a good card to have as a backup since it can still play the new releases on modest settings should anything go wrong with the 580 and you have to return it for a replacement.
 
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