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Graphic Card Question

TankSinatraTankSinatra Member UncommonPosts: 8
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  I don't know much about PC parts but here is my question. I own a Dell XPS  and the graphic card in there is a 768 Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTX. The computer is a little over a year old with all the new parts coming out I wanted to maybe upgrade my Graphic card. The card I was looking at was a Single 512MB GDDR3 ATI Radeon 4850. My question is should I keep what I have or is this one a upgrade.

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  • g.killramg.killram Member Posts: 62

    go 4870 or just keep the 8800.

  • rutaqrutaq Member UncommonPosts: 428

    I did a quick check of the cards you mentioned on Tomshardware.com  and it looks like the card performance is very close.  Unless the ATI 4850 was free I wouldn't bother, according to the charts you may actually see a decrease in performance running certain games/resolutions.

    If you are going to upgrade you want to make sure you get your money's worth so look for at least a 20% increase in power.   Your 8800GTX is a great card (#2 on the market ) and the only other ones that will give a decent performance increase would be  ATI HD 4870 ( $ 300.00 ) or the GTX 280  ($ 350.00 ).

    Honestly I would sit tight with what you have, but If I had the cash sitting around and really needed to upgrade my 8800GTX  I would go for the GTX 280. I think the 1024MG of memory would be the best investment you could make with some of the high resolution texture games that are out there. 

     

     

    Good Luck,

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  • hvc801hvc801 Member Posts: 987

    I'm not sure if those Dell's come sLI ready or not, I stoped looking at dell products 5 years ago.  If the dell does support sLI, get the same card you have in there and slame it in.  vuala, you've got yourself double the performance

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  • Swiftblade13Swiftblade13 Member Posts: 638

    keep what you have... odds are your CPU is bottlenecking the vid card as it is.  If possible try overclocking for a performance increase.

     

    Give your 8800 at least another year.. maybe longer.  If you really want to upgrade get a faster processor.

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  • Berek-HalfhaBerek-Halfha Member Posts: 20

    You definitely have a decent system, though I also question what you have for a CPU. However, even at that the CPU is usually not a bottleneck anymore, unless somehow you have an ancient one in there.

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