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- MakanGuru, on 11/05/2008, -5/+48the 4850 RAWKS and its so cost effective
- inactive, on 11/06/2008, -4/+43my 8800gt plays whatever I throw at it and was cheeeeeap
- maleficdog, on 11/06/2008, -2/+30BREAKING: expensive and high end graphic cards are good for gaming.
- 0260, on 11/06/2008, -3/+31What are you gonna play on it? rollercoaster tycoon 3?
- no1joel, on 11/05/2008, -4/+26When I wanted to check out graphics cards for laptops, I used http://www.notebookcheck.net/Comparison-of-Graphic ...
Just in case anyone wanted a bigger list. - sodoh, on 11/06/2008, -1/+21The only thing to be really aware of is that if you are running windows 32bit then there is a limit to the memory you have in your machine.
You can only address 4GB of memory, but some of those addresses are needed for other things. Graphics card included.
Normally you can get 3.5GB of memory but if you are going all out on graphics cards your going to loose accessible memory. I have a machine with two EV3A GTX 280 (1GB each) SLI'ed. The machine has max of 2.3 GB of accessible memory (due to other devices as well).
From graphics point of view I haven't found anything at all to tax the machine though (crysis included). - djmccormick, on 11/05/2008, -4/+24The USD amounts I got from Googling the conversion, not looking up the price in USA:
Asus Radeon HD4870 X2 £400 ($638.08 USD) www.asus.com
Sapphire HD4850 X2 £317 ($505.67 USD), www.sapphiretech.com
BFG GTX 280 H2OC £446 ($711.45 USD), www.bfgtechnologies.com
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 260 OC approx £220 ($350.94 USD), www.giga-byte.co.uk
HIS Radeon HD4850 IceQ 4 £131 ($208.97 USD), www.hisdigital.com - snoopydee, on 11/05/2008, -3/+20they might not be the best...
- lamiaconfitor, on 11/06/2008, -2/+18then wait a year or so... seriously, I dont ever buy cards RIGHT when they come out.
- L0NER, on 11/06/2008, -0/+15True, Windows is starting to show its age. I hope windows7 is 64 bit exsclisive, forcing drivers and software manufactures to embrace the future.
- TonyTheTerrible, on 11/06/2008, -0/+14But can you be funny?
- solid12345, on 11/06/2008, -0/+13You are pretty much pissing away 600 dollars to run Crysis on Max. Most PC games don't even go near half of these specs, my 8800GTX still plays 99% of all games with smooth framerates at high resolutions.
- PueSi, on 11/06/2008, -2/+14There's no real reason to not use Vista 64bit to this day. The driver issues are almost completely gone, I've yet to encounter a missing driver.
- average650, on 11/06/2008, -0/+12I'm pretty sure that almost anyone who cared to know what the top 5 graphics cards are didn't need this list to tell them...
- inactive, on 11/06/2008, -3/+148800gt
- Apocryphax64, on 11/06/2008, -0/+11Yes actually, the all can. Quite well. 1280x1024, 4x AA and High/Very high settings on Crysis Warhead with the HIS 4850 ICEQ4.
- techdever, on 11/06/2008, -10/+21too bad none work with OSX
- lauraT1987, on 11/06/2008, -1/+11If only price was not an issue!
- Exzhaton, on 11/06/2008, -2/+11Owned.
- tobikow, on 11/06/2008, -0/+9totally agree, best value on the market now imo.
- lamiaconfitor, on 11/06/2008, -1/+9Gigabyte GeForce GTX 260 $300 @newegg.com
Im not going down the whole list, but you can still shop around. - benologist, on 11/06/2008, -1/+9They've been at it for a long time. Just because new chips come out doesn't mean old chips stop being sold in laptops either.
I'm pretty sure users submit the benchmark scores and they average them as well, so it's probably mostly automated. - LocalDocal, on 11/06/2008, -0/+88800GT/9600GT.
- inactive, on 11/06/2008, -0/+8HD4850. Get one with a custom cooler though.
If you don't care about the level of AA, you can go with even cheaper cards like 9800GT/8800GTS/HD4830. But if you want ridiculous levels of AA, go with 4850 or the bigger brother 4870.
I have a 4850 and a 22'' screen and I can play Grid (for example) with everything on max and 24xAA, it looks awesome.. For comparison, PS3 can't do no AA while xbox360 only does 2xAA in Grid, and that's at a lower resolution... - mysticalone, on 11/06/2008, -2/+10Didn't AMD/ati recently improve the quality of their drivers by a lot, fixing problems surrounding Compwiz thing
- theaverageidiot, on 11/06/2008, -1/+88800gts
- Ktzero3, on 11/06/2008, -0/+7Not on a 24" monitor at 1920x1200 it won't...
- RealmDown, on 11/06/2008, -1/+8The techie mantra in a nutshell.
- ByteGuerilla, on 11/06/2008, -0/+7It's 4GB, and here's why. Each individual byte of memory has an address as part of the system's address space. In a 32bit system the address space is expressed as a binary number 32 bits long, from 00000000000000000000000000000001 to 11111111111111111111111111111111.
There are 2^32 possible addresses in that range. 2^32 is 4,294,967,296 individual bytes of memory, which is 4GB (4,294,967,296 / (1024^3)).
Some of that 4GB of addressable space is reserved by the operating system for accelerating the PCI bus (256MB) and other things.
A 64bit system has a much larger address space due to having twice the binary word size. 2^64 is 18,446,744,073,709,551,616. I can't be bothered to look it up at the moment but iirc that's 18 exabytes of addressable space. - tobikow, on 11/06/2008, -1/+8The HD4830 is a little closer to $100... and probably as low as you should go for a directx 10 capable card. excellent value with the 4800 series.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 ... - YouAreDead, on 11/06/2008, -0/+7same here, running vista 64bit without any problems
- DarkShroud, on 11/06/2008, -1/+8It uses a lot less energy than some of the nVidia cards as well.
- nytral, on 11/06/2008, -1/+8Wrong, 8800GT is barely 20% cheaper and at that price, the HD4830 trounces it.
- inactive, on 11/06/2008, -2/+8C'mon, everyone! Lets go play Fallout 3!!!
- RealmDown, on 11/06/2008, -2/+8Unless you LIKE experimenting with drivers written at midnight before release.
- RealmDown, on 11/06/2008, -0/+6Keep your VGA then. To each their own.
- RealmDown, on 11/06/2008, -0/+6Because it comes from China ?
- rondeth, on 11/06/2008, -0/+6I know everyone knows about Tom's Hardware, but what I recently noticed is that they periodically run a story called "The Best Video Cards for the Money [Date]" every few months.
Here's the latest version: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Best-Graphics- ...
They break it down into price points, usually a quick read. Cheers! - Lasereth, on 11/06/2008, -0/+6He's right, get the 4850.
- mickstephenson, on 11/06/2008, -0/+6Why is everything so cheap in America *sobs*
- Harbinger67, on 11/06/2008, -0/+6I know it's tempting to just plug the pound amounts into a currency converter and call it a day, but it doesn't quite work that way. The 4870x2 is not $638. The card launched at $550, and has been holding there for weeks. I don't really understand the point of your comment if the prices are so obviously different even when the currency is converted to dollars.
- krazyman, on 11/06/2008, -0/+6For $100 check out the geforce 9800GT. I got one for $100, with free COD4 and it runs everything max, 1680x1050, except crysis can only run on high. :D
- Frozo, on 11/06/2008, -0/+5Same here. Running on Intel Mac actually.
- Muler36, on 11/06/2008, -2/+7whats inaccurate about using british sterling on a british site? I can't believe American's ignorance sometimes.
- RealmDown, on 11/06/2008, -1/+6Actually, no, none of them can; however, they can DISPLAY it extremely well.
- sexybobo, on 11/06/2008, -0/+5Asus Radeon HD4870 X2 $549.99
Sapphire HD4850 X2 ? cant find any 4850 X2 for sale any where
BFG GTX 280 H2OC $419
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 260 OC $280
HIS Radeon HD4850 IceQ 4 $169.99
All Newegg prices. - inactive, on 11/06/2008, -2/+7I dual boot Ubuntu 8.10 64 and Win XP and I have an ATI 4850, never had a problem in Ubuntu (didn't play games though, that's what I keep the Windows partition for). Also no problem with videos using mplayer, or with firefox. It was all plug'n'play.
- inactive, on 11/06/2008, -1/+6I don't understand why masterkenobi has been dugg down for his comment
He didn't say anything offensive?
It seems like digging people up or down is a random thing in here... - rowlodge, on 11/05/2008, -9/+14$100 range please.
- norman619, on 11/06/2008, -0/+5You mean these things are stand alone computers? And here I thought we were discussing video cards. Oh well....
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