Hey, all!
So, I'll cut right to the chase. I have a Socket 939 Motherboard with 2 gigs of DDR RAM and an AMD Athlon 3800+ X2 processor. I do a ton of gaming, but the current generation (Assassin's Creed, CoD4, and etcetera) of games is wearing out my video card; I'm only able to play at 800x600 if I want settings maxed.
I can't afford a new Motherboard (and getting a new CPU would require me to do so), so I'm thinking about a new Video Card to replace my 7900 GT, which has served me well for many years. Here's my questions...
1. Pretend that I already had an HD 4850. If I upgraded to an HD 4870, would I receive much (if any) performance increase, or would the bottlenecks in place negate any possible gains?
2. Compare my current rig to a modern one (say, an x48 Motherboard and an e8400 with 4 gigs of DDR2 RAM). If both had an HD4850 in them, would my old rig perform significantly worse at higher resolutions in modern games? If so, by what degree?
I've done quite a bit of research, but haven't found any articles that can really help with my questions. If I missed something, I'd appreciate any/all links to articles I could use to further research this issue.
Thanks so much! I really appreciate it.
So, I'll cut right to the chase. I have a Socket 939 Motherboard with 2 gigs of DDR RAM and an AMD Athlon 3800+ X2 processor. I do a ton of gaming, but the current generation (Assassin's Creed, CoD4, and etcetera) of games is wearing out my video card; I'm only able to play at 800x600 if I want settings maxed.
I can't afford a new Motherboard (and getting a new CPU would require me to do so), so I'm thinking about a new Video Card to replace my 7900 GT, which has served me well for many years. Here's my questions...
1. Pretend that I already had an HD 4850. If I upgraded to an HD 4870, would I receive much (if any) performance increase, or would the bottlenecks in place negate any possible gains?
2. Compare my current rig to a modern one (say, an x48 Motherboard and an e8400 with 4 gigs of DDR2 RAM). If both had an HD4850 in them, would my old rig perform significantly worse at higher resolutions in modern games? If so, by what degree?
I've done quite a bit of research, but haven't found any articles that can really help with my questions. If I missed something, I'd appreciate any/all links to articles I could use to further research this issue.
Thanks so much! I really appreciate it.