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HD 4850 or 9800GTX+?
Hi all, im thinking of buying a HD 4850 or a 9800GTX+. The cheapest price i found for both of them are: Force3D HD 4850 $313 Glaxy 9800GTX+ $318 as you can see they're both very close in price. I've done my fair bit of research and it seems they're both on par, however many ppl from forums suggested that 4850 is better.....i want to play modern high performance games like Crysis, Call of Duty World at War, FarCry 2 etc on high settings and i want to play at 1330*648 or something like that. I know that the 4850 supports HDTV very well as i currently have a 3870 and it works great. Also, the 4850 has a built in 7.1 channel so that's great too. People have said that it runs pretty hot at 80 degrees on idle but that's easily fixed by increasing the fan speed to 35%. As for the 9800GTX+, it's slightly better in most benchmark tests but not too much different that can make it more superior to 4850, in fact, with anti aliasing and anti filtering (or something like that) turned on, 4850 performs better than 9800GTX+. Also, it seems 9800GTX+ requires 2 PCIE connectors.....other than that, not much different than 4850, but it runs cooler & quieter. Basically im kinda stuck, a lot of people have said 4850 is better whereas some said 9800GTX+ is better.....also it seems that Nvidia used bad underfill which causes the solder to crack lowering the lifespan of the graphics cards, so i don't know if that applies to 9xxx series or not, but a friend told me about it and suggested i should go for the 4850 instead....i know most games are designed maily for Nvidia architectures, but it's kinda even, some games lean towards ATI whereas some towards Nvidia, and plus AA & AF seems to perform better on 4850, e.g. Maxed out settings in Crysis with 4x AA and 8x AF turned on and runs at a faster FPS than 9800GTX+.... anyway please give me some advice. OH BTW, the HD4830 is only different to the HD4850 by maybe 10% but it performs really well too, i just want to play most games on high settings and i'm happy. The 4830 is $250 so that's at least $70 cheaper, should i go for that instead? @Bear, the prices i listed are in NZD which is about the same if you convert that to USD. @Matt M, that's what some people say, and those forums i've been to, like Tom's Hardware, Tech Powerup etc, all the big forums, they all say that 4850 is on par against 9800GTX+, not 9800GTX. I know for sure that 4850 owns 9800GTX but i'm talking about people saying it's better than 9800GTX+ in most cases........they're seriously on par man, especially with the AA and AF turned on, 4850 performs better........do ur research and u'll see what i mean.
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- Ok now let me tell you my experience with the 9800GTX+ 512mb. IT IS REALLY GOOD ALL GAMES CAN BE RUN ON ULTRA HIGH WITH NO LAG!! which also i have a AMd phenom 9950 (2.6ghz) So let me just say you will not be disapointed with the 9800GTX+.. By the way i have heard on some forums that the 4850 is better then the 9800GTX but the 9800GTX+ is better then the 4850...make sense?
- ATI Radeon HD 4850 Versus NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ Keep clicking next game at bottom of page to see benchmark comparisons http://www.legitreviews.com/article/731/9/
- I have a 9800GTX+ and it just works like a star i play Crysis Everything on Very High with the maximum reselution its fantastic me myself iam not a fan of ATI but i no that their very good. in my oppenion i would go for the 9800GTX+
- If you are worried about dual power connectors, they have a new 9800gtx+ design. which uses only one. And what are your specs?
