the 4850x2

[haaaam]

hey guys im going to buy a new graphics card before i go back to uni and im really thinking about the 4850x2. It's finally dropped in price from $700 to $550. My screen is only 1680x1050 and im going to be playing rainbow 6 las vegas 2, left 4 dead and fallout 3. I definately want to max everything out with aa as well but the question is do i get a gtx 260+. I put it on order before but i crashed my car and was mega poor at the time so i canceled it.So what do u say guys?

[Apoptosis]

We are actually working on a Radeon HD 4850X2, so as soon as Scott finishes testing we'll have the review posted. He's running the lastest BIOS and ATI CATALYST 9.1 drivers, so I think it should yield some interesting results as most of the reviews online today were done on older drivers with early vBIOS' installed.

[haaaam]

thanks man that sounds awesome and ill definitely be looking out for it. Ive seen 1 or 2 more recent articles that put the 4850x2 closer to its big brother (4870x2) with a little bit of overclocking at certian resolutions. Either way its dropped down to $550 and really i cant help but think that it'll be worth the extra $100 from a generic gtx 260. That and ive never felt comfortable with nvidea, but hey everyone has their preference. Would my 650 W psu be fine with it though caus ive also read somewhere that the new catalyst drivers have somehow increased power consumption somehow with only a 1% increase in performance in crysis etc. I only have a e8500 (not overclocked) and 2 hard drives (one being 1T) so i think the psu should be adequate caus i dont really have much extra hardware?

[vicaphit]

Don't forget that AA isn't going to make a whole lot of a visual difference when you are running at higher resolution.

[martini161]

i think youve got it backwards...