you might go for hd 4850. theres a price drop stated at techpowerup website.

Actually, If you consider a long run graphic card you should spent on 4850 because if have higher Core clock and Memory speed which quite need for gaming now days. As an extra, why don't make some research before buying the graphic card ? ... this due to your PSU and MOBO whether can maximize the usage of GPU.

A lot of mobo only have PCIex16 but not PCIe2.0X16 which possible cause almost twice capability GPU missing.
(Theory apply same as USB 1.0 and USB 2.0)

(Note: I not encourage you to but 4850 because only needed the Directx10.1 because now quite not very useful now or even cannot guaranty soon because of DirectX11)

Extra reminder: Make research first and compare each ATI graphic card to prevent some regret soon or current.

ey guys, im planning to play my games on 1920 x1080..

should i get:

a) 4870 gddr5 512mb
b) 4850 gddr3 1024mb?

i know that ram size matters in higher resolution.. but what about performance wise? susah la like this

Dude, It's not possible to lag unless your card is crappier than my HD2600 XT (AGP). I'm using that card with my Pentium4 HT proc and together with Dell's 24" LCD. All Max Setting. No lag or whatsoever.
It'll only lag when I'm playing either GRID, HAWX, or COD4 at Max setting.

EDIT: @wild_card_my

Before this I was using Sapphire HD4870 512MB Big Fan Series and to be perfectly honest, the card serves me well.
It didn't Lag for games like COD4, COD5, GRID, HAWX, PES09, GOW, Godfather2, and NFS Undercover. (all max setting)

But when it comes to game like Crysis, Crysis Warhead and Farcry, it'll lag a bit. When it comes to heavy shooting scenes, it'll lag a lot especially with crysis (all High setting)
In very High setting, it's disastrous.

I don't have any idea about the 4850 card but I do know that the extra memory will come in handy when using higher Reso.

The question is, how helpful will it be?

But the most important question is what kind of games do you play?

P/s: All games were played on 1920*1080~

This post has been edited by gto87: May 29 2009, 01:03 AM

well i am primarilly a console gamer but since im getting a new pc and i have a 23" 1080p samsung sw2333 or somthing like that i wanna try playing more pc games... i have a steam acocunt with l4d and orange box too.. cod4, maybe, but i prefer playing it on console anyway lol.. so i dotn really know the kinds of games i will play, a mix of blizzard games and fpses maybe

i think ill just read review comparing 4850 in 1080p to 4870. it hink i should have done that first

ultimately still the HD4870 512mb will be faster than HD4850 1GB. just that the HD4850 1GB works a little faster than HD4850 512MB on higher res.......... but generally at higher res, the HD4850 core / mem speed and mem bandwidth will already bog it down compared to HD4870.

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Added on May 29, 2009, 1:34 ambtw a point to note, comparing within same brand, HD4850 1GB is still a few hundred RM cheaper than HD4870 512MB. do you think the HD4850 1GB will still be faster? i don't think so.

This post has been edited by goldfries: May 29 2009, 01:34 AM

4870 512mb will be ok.. unless >20reso
the chip is faster n the ram is better..

i checked a couple of reviews and the 4870 seems to do alright (as in not bottlenecked) by the 512mb rams at 1920x1200 res.. and obviously it performs better than 4750 at the resolution too. i guess the choice is obvious now

p.s i really dont understand the relevance of 1gb 4750 then.. if the card chokes 1920 due to the lower core and ram speed, who would bother running it at 1920x1200 anyway? what a waste.. should have left it a 512mb.. i guess gddr3 rams are really cheap thats why they thought.. might as well, 1gb awesem..

gpu below 4850 fitted with 1gb.. if gaming on 1920x1200 not give any benefit..

just like use old cpu with 4gb ram when gaming..

yeah thats what i said

This post has been edited by wild_card_my: May 29 2009, 12:47 PM

@gto87
thats why i ask la.. why like tat.. my 8500gt run more smooth then this new 4770.. anything related to my mobo or cpu?? anything tat i need to tweak in CCC???

one more issue..
i din get much graphic improvement for GRID, the edges are still not smooth. i feel like playing on my 8500gt only.. BUT the game play is very very smooth lo (super fast loading).. ALL compared with my previous GC.

erm.....he is having a big resolution. is 512mb enough?

it's ur cpu bottlenecking..

for 4870 is ok.. it use better chip n 256bit ddr5..

if cf 4850
izzit better than 4870?

ofcourse.. that's kind of question u can always google..
http://vr-zone.com/articles/graphics-slugf...80/5935-10.html

owh sory 4 being such a noob
but sometimes single card better than dual configuration
as the game not yet utilze dual card solution

multi-gpu.. ati CF is ok..
but sometimes depends on games.. as they are choosy..

can i CF with different GPUs?

or maybe same chipset but different brand.. eg. MSI 4870 with powercolor 4870 etc

can.. why not.. but must the same series..

guys..im currently using a HD4850 and my numerous attempt at downloading the latest driver has resulted in the wrong one being installed..incompatible with my GC..can anyone provide me a link to the correct driver?the wrong one i downloaded was from the ati website..

thanks in advance!