Ati 4850

[schnorchel]

Originally Posted by crazyivan1970

Running 3870X2 here since the day it was released, never seen any stuttering or other negative effects. Performance of late ATI cards is fantastic IMO...and picture quality is FAR superior to nVidia (ducking ) in my opinion, of course.

hi Crazyivan, I have one thing very interested regarding the crossfire. Once I try to use 2 3850 to running il2 but I can no boost from CF. identical FPS to that on 1 card. besides when set to the CF I have no way to enable the vertical Synchronization to avoid the screen tearing.

[Chivas]

R700XT, HD4870 X2, 2GB GDDR5 ~$499....maybe available by this August. That price isn't final. It should be a great card for SOW if it comes out at the end of this year.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...=8279&Itemid=1

[Bodkin]

I've always observed in any of the ATI cards that I've owned that the graphic rendering was superior to any of the NVidia cards I bought. (IMHO)

My decision to finally stay away from ATI was that every one of those cards failed within one year. It cost me more to ship them back and received someone elses used card that also failed was far to expensive for me and also created a non-confidence issue in their product.

Cheers

[BAXTER STOCKMAN]

I never had a ati card but a friend of mine has a ati 9550 and he can not run crysis, spiderwick chronicles, Timeshift Jericho and some other games when i with my 8800gtcan run them perfectly! I will post some screenhots of my games taken with 8800 on max settings just to show you that Nvdia is better!!

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by BAXTER STOCKMAN

I never had a ati card but a friend of mine has a ati 9550 and he can not run crysis, spiderwick chronicles, Timeshift Jericho and some other games when i with my 8800gtcan run them perfectly! I will post some screenhots of my games taken with 8800 on max settings just to show you that Nvdia is better!!

You mean that this normally passively cooled absolutely low end AGP-Graphics-card with 128MB regular Memory and the old R370 chip from 2004 is really slower than a high end PCI-E 8800GT with 512MB DDR2 RAM from 2007?

Yeah, you are right. It really shows you something: That people who look at labels are pretty much blind for reality.

[BuRNeR]

lol
a ati 9550 was a low budget card like the nv fx5200/5500. and believe me, the nv 5200/5500 sux much more. and if you never owned a ati then shut up . the 8800 gt comes 3 generations later and was a upper midrange card. sorry, but your compares were more then silly.
i owned ati and nvidia cards and i had more problems with my last nvidiacard then to my aticards before.
a good friend is a hardcore hardware freak and he tested much more then many magazines.
he got now the ati 4750 and is very happy now about it. for this price you got enough power for all games in big resolutions. btw. he is using a tripplehead2go and got no problems with qualitysettings. and he pushed his old 3850 to 1 ghz on the gpu he was still able to play games with it

[Feuerfalke]

Let me post some shots for you, Baxter:


9550 upgraded edition with 256MB RAM for 39 Euros. (Release-Price around 90Euros)


8800GT in the front, a comparable card to the 9550 in the upper left. Costs 140 Euros (about 250 Euros when it was released)

[BAXTER STOCKMAN]

Originally Posted by BuRNeR

lol
a ati 9550 was a low budget card like the nv fx5200/5500. and believe me, the nv 5200/5500 sux much more. and if you never owned a ati then shut up . the 8800 gt comes 3 generations later and was a upper midrange card. sorry, but your compares were more then silly.
i owned ati and nvidia cards and i had more problems with my last nvidiacard then to my aticards before.
a good friend is a hardcore hardware freak and he tested much more then many magazines.
he got now the ati 4750 and is very happy now about it. for this price you got enough power for all games in big resolutions. btw. he is using a tripplehead2go and got no problems with qualitysettings. and he pushed his old 3850 to 1 ghz on the gpu he was still able to play games with it

i dont have any problems with my 8800gt because i can run all games at max settings in 1280x1024 without any problems. But i had some problems with my old 8600/ 7900 cards. And yes my friend has the 9550 agp version and he can not run almost any game. I have the GAINWARD 8800GT 512MB GOLDEN SAMPLE version 670mhz core and 1800 mhz memory. I can not overclock it becuase my comptuter is getting very hot in the summer and sometimes it shutdowns even with no overclock.

[Feuerfalke]

And how does this show us, that nVidia is better?

Since you posted your frequencies:
ATI 9550 GPU: 250 MHz
ATI 9550 Memory: 200MHz


The 9550 is something very useful for running Office, nothing else. Even when it was released. That has nothing to do with ATI-Quality, though, or giving a reasonable basis to say that Crysis doesn't run with ATI-cards.

[BuRNeR]

Originally Posted by BAXTER STOCKMAN

i dont have any problems with my 8800gt because i can run all games at max settings in 1280x1024 without any problems. But i had some problems with my old 8600/ 7900 cards. And yes my friend has the 9550 agp version and he can not run almost any game. I have the GAINWARD 8800GT 512MB GOLDEN SAMPLE version 670mhz core and 1800 mhz memory. I can not overclock it becuase my comptuter is getting very hot in the summer and sometimes it shutdowns even with no overclock.

i don´t know what this means for you ?
the compared ati 9550 was an officecard and was not a gamercard. i had in these times an ati 9500pro which was middleclass but much faster then a 9550.
i´ve got no problem with someone who has no clue of hardware, but then don´t post some useless comments. if someone need help in this i will help.
btw. try to put some fans in your tower that can help to your overheating problem.

@4S_Nero

to the ati 4850/70:
the power for this price they is absolutly great. enough performance for every game today
but nobody can know what kind of card you need for storm of war. i think even oleg can´t tell it at this moment.
i would prefer the ati because the price is very good for the performance. but if you want about ~30% more power for ~200% more money, then you should buy the nv 280gtx.

the nv 260gtx is close to the 4870 form the performance but about 50€ more expensive (in germany).