Will upgrading from Hd4850 to Gtx460 make much differnce?

the 4850 is still a great card. dont upgrade unless u sell the old one at the same time. my house mate needed a graphics card, so i offered her my 6 month old 4850 for $100Au. this let her get a great deal (at the time $100 would only get u a 5450's and 5550's...). this techinically let me pay for a 5770 OC edition only $115au because they retailed for $215AU. all i did was pay teh difference from the sale of my card. If ur favourite gaems are dead space and Fear 2 then i wouldnt upgrade, but if u love playing monster PC games like Metro 2033 and Crysis EVERYDAY, then the upgrade is worth it as the GTX460, especially when OC'd is an AWESOME card.

I would personally wait until atleast one more series of GPU is released before upgrading from a 4850. It's still a great contender and I feel you would be disapointed in the difference between the two.General_X

Yeah agree with this.

Wait till 2nd gen dx11 cards.

i have the same kind of card (look at my sig) i can max out crysis and mretoo 2033 with no problem.

i want to upgrade my card too. but if i were you wait for the next line of cards. or save a bit more and get a GTX 480 or 470

Right now it really depends on the Res you play at. There isn't a huge gain due to the fact you play at such as low res.

Oof, a dual core for GTAIV? Yeah, that's definitely a bottleneck right there.

If it's a max TDP of 95w, you could go and check if XFX has new firmware updates for your motherboard. If it does, chances are you could plug in a Phenom II x4 945 in there, or even the new revision of the X6 1055t if you're lucky. GTAIV loves more cores.

yeah id wait for the next line of dx11 cards with the hd 6770 projected to clash head on with the gtx 465 we will see alot of dust kicked up vs the current ati and nvidia offerings. the gtx 460 may have some staying power due to its price but at the end of the day the southern islands mid range will more or less match its stock preformance fairly well. essentially the nvidia refresh is going to need to completely reinvent their low end if they want to do anything with it anymore, their upper end needs a huge facelift and their mid range has alot of potential that i feel isnt beeing explored enough in the reference cards., which could potentially be used to save their high end.

i can see why galaxy tossed away their gtx 470x2 saber, zotac is making another g92 dual card, and why the mars II has been delayed by ALOT. they just wouldnt move units as productively as the rest of the lineup's already out there which arent exactly working miracles themselves.

the graphics card market is an ongoing war of attrition and the winner is the person who can take the worst beatings and keep on ticking. and amd clearly has the resources to firmly weather and blow nvidia can deal.

i have the same kind of card (look at my sig) i can max out crysis and mretoo 2033 with no problem.

i want to upgrade my card too. but if i were you wait for the next line of cards. or save a bit more and get a GTX 480 or 470

acsam12304

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i have the same kind of card (look at my sig) i can max out crysis and mretoo 2033 with no problem.

i want to upgrade my card too. but if i were you wait for the next line of cards. or save a bit more and get a GTX 480 or 470

V4LENT1NE

Um, maxing out is maxing out. There's no differentiations of the terminology unless he's pulling our legs. However, resolution does play a big factor though. If it's less than 1440x900, he can get away with it.

[QUOTE="V4LENT1NE"][QUOTE="acsam12304"]

i have the same kind of card (look at my sig) i can max out crysis and mretoo 2033 with no problem.

i want to upgrade my card too. but if i were you wait for the next line of cards. or save a bit more and get a GTX 480 or 470

PunishedOne

Um, maxing out is maxing out. There's no differentiations of the terminology unless he's pulling our legs. However, resolution does play a big factor though. If it's less than 1440x900, he can get away with it.

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[QUOTE="V4LENT1NE"] Maxxing out Crysis with a 4850? Hmmm I think your definition of maxing out may differ from a few others here.Elann2008

Um, maxing out is maxing out. There's no differentiations of the terminology unless he's pulling our legs. However, resolution does play a big factor though. If it's less than 1440x900, he can get away with it.

I do have a 4850 512 with an amd x3 720 @ 3.2ghz now

I play at 1680x1050 and while most of the games i threw in, played wonderfull i still decided to purchase a gtx 460 1gb. It will be arriving next week along with a new cpu cooler to push some juice on my processor for better clocks. The reasons i bhought a gtx 460 are:

-Due to how the currency works in my country, buying the gtx 460 and after i sell my 4850, it would mean that i had only spent 30-40$ on the gtx 460

-Considerably less heat. Right now my 4850 is extremely hot and affects everything around, on heavy games it peaks to 110C and sometimes i gotta blow an outside fan to help with the temp

-Better scaling, room for more perfomance compared to my 4850 and hopefully sli possibility in near future

-I want to max out some games for my resolution comfortably, crysis, Bad company 2, stalker cs, and some upcoming

I think it is worth it considering all those aspecs in mind

In many aspects the gtx460 is the true predecessor of HD4850 as it do what the HD4850 did back when it was released.

1. Selling at a attractive price.

2. Beat out the competition in the same pricerange.

3. Good performance for the price when compared to the more costly cards.

4. Selling in a very large number of design's in various clocks and memory and PCB's.

5. Aiming to target people needing a bit more power but don't want to get the highest end cards.

Sure, the gtx460 and HD4850 both did/do that but im not sure the timespawn between them is enough to grant it to be a great purchase.

To my concern i find it like ewryone just jump ahead and recomend the gtx460 just because it's such a great card, to me i'd say the quite slow AMD 7850 x2 and only two GB's may be a bigger problem than the HD4850 as it still play games just fine, most new games it runs max'ed and particular at the 1280*1024 he are currently gaming on.

One of the games he mentioned as a game where he have trouble with is caused by the CPU he is using, the second game witch alo a gtx460 would have trouble running maxed out, seems like even if he DO get a gtx460 he still will be having the exsact same problem in the exsact same games.

Id try to put in a new CPu before thinking of upgrading the HD4850, specially as he is using a very low resolution.

Comon Gamespotters!, where have your judgement gone! ;)

I purchased a new 500Gb hard-drive and aiming to replace the processor(just getting the basics right as many of you mentioned that the processor is indeed a bottleneck).Oh and I installed a extra couple of gb's of ram before deciding on the GPU.Unfortunately I can't afford a total upgrade,which I desire. But here's a problem I am facing-My motherboard XFX 750a sli seemed to be fairly up to date mobo when i bought in back in June 08.But now in the Xfx website I can't find a thing about the Bios update Swehunt mention to enable Am3 processors in this mobo.I surfed the net but did not find any info about this damn motherboard's bios upgrade for AM3 cpu.If I am stalled with the 7850 it will be sad since Newegg had such an attractive price for the Athlon II X4 620.And besides I got someone willing to buy the 7850 for office work from me too! Any help,guys?Serioussamik

Just sign up at the XFX site, download the bios, be carefull to update the Bios under the instructions exsact as they tell you to do, you don't want anything to go wrong, just folow the guide-thru and you should be fine.

HERE @ XFX

Some new info has been leaked about AMD's new gpu's arriving november :

By the looks of it, the first HD6xxx cards out will be the AMD Barts GPU, that is intended to replace the HD57xx, the GPU suppose to be pin compatible with the Cypress (the HD58xx cards) so if you can hold out and wait to late October erly November you migth end up with a HD67xx with HD58xx performance with tweaked power draw and more energy efficient at a better price than your dishing out for a gtx460 currently.

Try to do the best with what you've got untill november that is my best recomendation, i agree the gtx460 is promicing rigth now but atleast wait to november. :)

The Bart may very well be the AMD responce to the gtx460.

[QUOTE="Serioussamik"]I purchased a new 500Gb hard-drive and aiming to replace the processor(just getting the basics right as many of you mentioned that the processor is indeed a bottleneck).Oh and I installed a extra couple of gb's of ram before deciding on the GPU.Unfortunately I can't afford a total upgrade,which I desire. But here's a problem I am facing-My motherboard XFX 750a sli seemed to be fairly up to date mobo when i bought in back in June 08.But now in the Xfx website I can't find a thing about the Bios update Swehunt mention to enable Am3 processors in this mobo.I surfed the net but did not find any info about this damn motherboard's bios upgrade for AM3 cpu.If I am stalled with the 7850 it will be sad since Newegg had such an attractive price for the Athlon II X4 620.And besides I got someone willing to buy the 7850 for office work from me too! Any help,guys?swehunt

Just sign up at the XFX site, download the bios, be carefull to update the Bios under the instructions exsact as they tell you to do, you don't want anything to go wrong, just folow the guide-thru and you should be fine.

HERE @ XFX

Some new info has been leaked about AMD's new gpu's arriving november :

By the looks of it, the first HD6xxx cards out will be the AMD Barts GPU, that is intended to replace the HD57xx, the GPU suppose to be pin compatible with the Cypress (the HD58xx cards) so if you can hold out and wait to late October erly November you migth end up with a HD67xx with HD58xx performance with tweaked power draw and more energy efficient at a better price than your dishing out for a gtx460 currently.

Try to do the best with what you've got untill november that is my best recomendation, i agree the gtx460 is promicing rigth now but atleast wait to november. :)

The Bart may very well be the AMD responce to the gtx460.

Swehunt,you are indeed helpful pal.And thanx for the info regarding the Barts GPU's.

I have an account with Xfx support and read about the bios version.But I am not sure that this particular mobo-XFX sli 750a sli will accept AM3 cpu's even with a Bios update as XFx is not officialy declaring that their board is capable of supporting AM3 cpus.:?

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[QUOTE="Serioussamik"]I purchased a new 500Gb hard-drive and aiming to replace the processor(just getting the basics right as many of you mentioned that the processor is indeed a bottleneck).Oh and I installed a extra couple of gb's of ram before deciding on the GPU.Unfortunately I can't afford a total upgrade,which I desire. But here's a problem I am facing-My motherboard XFX 750a sli seemed to be fairly up to date mobo when i bought in back in June 08.But now in the Xfx website I can't find a thing about the Bios update Swehunt mention to enable Am3 processors in this mobo.I surfed the net but did not find any info about this damn motherboard's bios upgrade for AM3 cpu.If I am stalled with the 7850 it will be sad since Newegg had such an attractive price for the Athlon II X4 620.And besides I got someone willing to buy the 7850 for office work from me too! Any help,guys?Serioussamik

Just sign up at the XFX site, download the bios, be carefull to update the Bios under the instructions exsact as they tell you to do, you don't want anything to go wrong, just folow the guide-thru and you should be fine.

HERE @ XFX

Some new info has been leaked about AMD's new gpu's arriving november :

By the looks of it, the first HD6xxx cards out will be the AMD Barts GPU, that is intended to replace the HD57xx, the GPU suppose to be pin compatible with the Cypress (the HD58xx cards) so if you can hold out and wait to late October erly November you migth end up with a HD67xx with HD58xx performance with tweaked power draw and more energy efficient at a better price than your dishing out for a gtx460 currently.

Try to do the best with what you've got untill november that is my best recomendation, i agree the gtx460 is promicing rigth now but atleast wait to november. :)

The Bart may very well be the AMD responce to the gtx460.

Swehunt,you are indeed helpful pal.And thanx for the info regarding the Barts GPU's.

I have an account with Xfx support and read about the bios version.But I am not sure that this particular mobo-XFX sli 750a sli will accept AM3 cpu's even with a Bios update as XFx is not officialy declaring that their board is capable of supporting AM3 cpus.:?