Hello there

Ive saved some money around and decided to enchance my computer abit, i dont have enough money to buy a new computer nor the possibility to save more due to how dollars works at my contry (venezuela). Anyways, I was looking at the recently released gtx 460 and it looks really good for the money. The 5850 looked really awesome but its to much for my wage, and maybe just go a cheaper line and add a second 4850.. Now, thats why i came here.. its to get some input and to make sure if its really worth the upgrade from my current video card:

My specs are the following

4850 512mb

amd x3 720 stock ( Plan to OC now that i purchased a good cooler)

2x 2gb ram

Gygabite ud4p motherboard

corsair tx 450w

My 4850 ran some some recent games really well on my 22" monitor at 1680x1050. Mass effect 2, bioshock, far cry 2, half-life episodes, the witcher, assasins creed. The card did its job. The game that really "combo broke" my card was crysis, i really wanted to play the game but the graphics i was getting did not motivated me to play the game, medium-high with overheat issues just didnt cut it. Im not sure also if my computer will run BF BC 2 and dragon age which i just bought and plan to play it for a while. And last, for some near future games that i might buy or be released this year (haven't looked much yet). This will be my computer for atleast 1.5-2 years more so yeah.

Just making sure if its worth the updrage, consedring the costs, bottleneck possibility(?), the games i plan to play and longetivity for year and half. The other option that also came in mind is adding a second radeon 4850 but i dont know if its safe to run it on my current PSU, some say its safe others dont recomend.

Thanks

My current

I checked the cpu and the thermal was alittle wasted and had a moountain of dust. My readings were indeed wrong

dust = heat^2

Anyways, any recommended cpu cooler for it in the 40-50 $ range top that would be good on maintaining lower temperatures and allow for some overclocking ?

Wow

I totally missread everything, Coretemp is displaying temps of 63C at stock speeds and its when it gets to 65-70C that starts beepin.

The temps i was telling were from were my comp was new 3-4 months ago and i had them as benchmark and nver updated and watched back again.

I gotta check bios settings again.

Hello there,

For some reason everytime my processor goes above 50 celsius, say for gaming, encoding, loading something heavy, etc. It starts to annoyingly beep and quite loud until its below 50C again. When doing those heavy tasks the temperatures goes to 53-55 without OC and upto 58-61 when oc to 3.2. For the moment im running with no OC, My temperatures are abit high because im running with stock fan cooler and my room temperature is 28 C and dusty.

I have tried every possible setting on motherboard setup (gigabyte 790mx ud49) which alarm is set to 70 C, not 50. And the beeping still persits, Ive also tried disabling the alarm and nada.. Fixing my current temps will be more complicated due my circunstances. So im trying to look for someone who had experience with this problem or has an idea on how to fix it and disable this alarm for once and all

Thanks

Diablo II will win over any gta at any time.

But i voted for GTA vice city, it just so much fun.

The problem with the 5770 is that they made them with a 128bit memoery interface.

It has all its goodies of the 5xxx series like dx11 and eyeinfinity, but its perfomance its going to lack due the memoery interface.

This is aswell for the 5750.

New drivers may help, but it wont do much.

Good and funny commercial.

About halfway where the chick wires up some cables with a power supply and the card and set up a circuit..yeah right. But anyways the idea was good.

Check out at the end the sublimal message of XFX lol, it says (se)xfx on a quick flash. When i was younger always i thought xfx had something to do with that stuff, i was right lol.

My top 5 hardest games i played

1-Civilization 3 (i was 12 and it was a total disater with to much to do and take account for)

2-Farcry on harder difficulties (The lastests levels were ridicoulus)

3-Operation flashpoint (Again i was 11-12 and it was the first real fps i played, tough game)

4-Warcraft 3 on hard (Had to cheat to beat the last mission :( )

5-Star wars galaxies pre-cu (The game was very complex, due to that it got revamped into cu and months later into the vomit of nge)

Try it on another computer? if it doesn;t work, check for the oven trick

Not all fps are better at pc:

Halo 2