New Grapic Card, Maybe.

kcnector · 12-30-2008, 09:51 PM

Hi, I have this GFX (Club 3D Geforce 9500gt 1024mb) PC Lager ApS - Salg af Club 3D GeForce PCI-E 9500GT 1024MB DVI/VGA til en god pris - Club 3D modelnummer: CGNX-G9524Y (Grafikkort, Club 3D) . But when I play Frontlines Fuel Of War it only run smooth on the almost lowest settings.
So I thought about buying this instead (Club 3D Radeon HD 4850 Extreme OC 512mb) PC Lager ApS - Salg af Club 3D Radeon PCI-E HD4850 Extreme OC 512MB til en god pris - Club 3D modelnummer: CGAX-4852DDO (Grafikkort, Club 3D) . So I wanted to hear if that would make a difference that was the money worth, or would it be stupid.

Richard_Rahl · 12-30-2008, 10:53 PM

A Radeon HD4850 is a mid- to high range card, aimed at gaming.
A GeForce 9500 is a moderate model that is not really aimed at gaming, but more at HD video(editing).

So a 4850 may be a better choice, or else a GeForce 9800GTX+. Though whether an OC'ed one is a good choice depends on the rest of your hardware. I suggest you post your specs here so that we can have a look at it

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Slaymate · 12-31-2008, 12:55 AM

When you post your System Specifications include all your hardware and as much info about each item as you can. And include the power supply. Also give us your budget, what you'd like to spend and how much above that figure you can still spend if needed.

kcnector · 12-31-2008, 11:08 AM

Hi, my PC where bought online as a custom build, and it is in for a repair now, then I thought that when it was on their workshop, I could use the opportunity to change the card to a better one, and the card is one of the choices in the setup for this PC, (I'm not allowed to change anything myself, if I do the warranty is lost, which I'm a little dissapointed with) so it should be able to run it, here is my specs.

Vista Home Premium 32bit. Upgrading to 64bit
AsRock 4Core1600Twins-P35 Intel P35 DDR2/3
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16 6MB L2 FSB1333
Mushkin DDR2 PC2-800 2+2GB CL5
Club 3D GeForce PCI-E 9500GT 1024MB DVI/VGA
Samsung Spinpoint F1 500GB SATA 16MB 7200RPM
LC-Power Titan 560W 140mm SLI compatible V2.0
Zegamax Luna Midi Black 2 x 12 cm fan 1 x 23

Richard_Rahl · 12-31-2008, 01:53 PM

An OC'ed 4850 should be running well in this system I think, but if I were you I shouldn't install a 64-bit version of Vista. Some 32-bit programs may have issues running on it, and the advantages aren't worth the money I think. Save the money for Windows 7 or gamning memory

kcnector · 12-31-2008, 05:17 PM

Don't you think I get that much more out of my memory, when the 64bit can see all my 4gb ram +vcard's memory?

RaiZen18 · 12-31-2008, 06:24 PM

Yea if I were i would get the 4850 I have one and it plays all games (excpet crysis) on full! Also I would get faster RAM than the 800... but nice set up non the less... kicks my pcs ass...

Richard_Rahl · 12-31-2008, 06:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kcnector

Don't you think I get that much more out of my memory, when the 64bit can see all my 4gb ram +vcard's memory?

Can your current OS installation see all the RAM? I know that Vista should be able to.

Memory cards can be used as virtual memory via Readyboost, but are slower then your hard drive and thus not as good as the regular virtual memory that Windows is using.

Akherousin · 12-31-2008, 07:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Richard_Rahl

An OC'ed 4850 should be running well in this system I think, but if I were you I shouldn't install a 64-bit version of Vista. Some 32-bit programs may have issues running on it, and the advantages aren't worth the money I think. Save the money for Windows 7 or gamning memory

Just want to say that I am running the x64 version of Vista for a little over a year now and the only game that flat out refused to run was Need for Speed 2 SE because the installer was 16bit (lol).

Summarize: Vista x64 is no problem for gaming.

kcnector · 12-31-2008, 09:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Richard_Rahl

Can your current OS installation see all the RAM? I know that Vista should be able to.

Memory cards can be used as virtual memory via Readyboost, but are slower then your hard drive and thus not as good as the regular virtual memory that Windows is using.

When I have memory mapping (on or off (can't remember which)) it can see 2014mb in the task manager, and when it's the opposite setting it shows 3007mb in the task manager. But in the Bios, control panel and anywhere else it shows the correct 4gb.
I know about Readyboost, I'm using it on my old PC that I'm using now, but I don't think it will make a noticeable improvement on my new one with 4gb, cause this has 2gb ram and it only helps a little, but thanks for the advice anyway.
PS. the usb is faster than the hard drive for small files, because there are no moving parts in the usb as it use flash memory so it don't have to start spinning, and it's only caching smaller data chunks, unlike the page file handling much larger files.
Thanks for all of yours opinions, they are really appreciated.