How's the crysis:warhead performs on 4850 for you guys?
Mine like choking at 22-3xfps with gamer settings at 1440*900 reso

Chill dudes. As for me, I would suggest try to avoid any 1k++ GC, get a normal 4870 or 4850 will do. Most probably you'll do an upgrade in 1 or 2 years time which made the GC worthless.

Unless you really sure want to use the GC for the coming years, then spending more on it is alright.

Regarding to dx11, IIRC the current dx10 card will support dx11 too.

Well i'm not sure about this honestly
But unless they can make something really different from dx11, there's no point to get dx11 also. DX10 is overrated or maybe still haven't utilized properly yet , hope they can come out with something wow for dx11.

This post has been edited by Kyl3: Oct 19 2008, 05:19 PM

For my case, the stock cooler is doing the job pretty much fine. With some manual fan speed controlling or flash the bios, the 4850 idling at around 48-52c depends on ambient temp and full load at 70-80c.

The GC is not tat fragile against the high temperature, if you want to extend the lifespan of the GC with "low" temperature, you might as well buy a mid range card and keep on upgrading them every 2 years or so if you have the budget.

For OC, I can't gain much FPS from 625mhz core to 700mhz in crysis, just around 2-3FPS increment can't really motivate me to stick with that clock speed. Currently, only crysis requires insane GPU processing power while other new titles such as Far Cry 2 runs fine on my 4850.

IMO, not really worth to get the OC-ed version card, unless you are loaded with cash