ASUS Radeon HD 3850 (512 model)

would the ASUS Radeon HD 3850 512 model not 256 model run realy good for someone that plays wmp 11 including the library feature and crysis with 8x anti aliasing resolution 1024x768 for the desktop and game and i mean the asus model only

please try to tell me how it would run (slow-medium-fast and its qaulity)

 

would the ASUS Radeon HD 3850 512 model not 256 model run realy good for someone that plays wmp 11 including the library feature and crysis with 8x anti aliasing, resolution of 1024x768 for the desktop and in game and i mean the asus model only

please try to tell me how it would run (slow-medium-fast and its qaulity)

 

Crysis doesn't properly support Anti-Aliasing, so I'd advise you not to use it at all for the game, no matter how powerful your graphics card is. However, the HD3850 shoud have no problem playing the game at 1024x768 all high with a frame rate of around 30-40fps average. If you're running Vista, I'd avoid using the 'very high' setting as that may run quite slowly.

 

yeah...there isn't a graphics card that can run the game on ultra high setting and keeping a decent frame rate...but there will be one soon enough

 

Not for Shaders and shadows and world detail, no. However, I must mention the fact that all the other options in that panel, Sound quality, water quality, texture quality and so on make pretty much no difference to the frame rate, so go nuts!

 

very high is not realy needed high shuld be good enough that way it looks realy good without the extra memory and other requirements being pushed even further and i would use 2x or 4x if this card is equivelent to a good 8800 or something i wuld go with the 8800 if necessery but i ask about a radeon card because the mobo i might be getting due to budget supports crosfire not sli but just because its a $198 mobo doesn't mean its crap its actualy quite good just not set out very well for the ide (dvd drive) i use sata other wise

 

i like good graphics game...it feels like you're in the game...well with high resolution of course...

 

If you're spending $200 on a motherboard, don't have a single reason to dislike it. For that sort of money you should be getting top end stuff. Crossfire's a complete waste of time, so if that's your upgrade plan I'd rethink. Save your money, buy a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R and either an HD3850 or preferably an HD3870 if you can afford one, and you'll have a PC that can play games at superb image quality settings for quite some time to come.

 

hey Sam i envy you for having a 30" Dell monitor...it must be huge...

 

It's about 30" diagonally, funnily enough...
Lol what a thing to say! I mean really...
I love it for the size, but it's not just that. The resolution I like just as much if not more. 2560x1600 just lets you do so much more on one screen you never thought possible. Multi-tasking like you wouldn't believe, or sickening view ranges in Real time strategy games.

 

lol...boasting there...yeah i can imagine that...show us a pic of your monitor...i wanna see how small the bars, words etc are

 

Lol you asked for it... pictures coming right up.
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/3176/s5000430th1.jpg
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/7105/s5000431bu1.jpg

 

(0).(o)
::: crack

 

dell sell crap that is outdated and overpriced. i beat thier prices by far. i buy from centrecom here in australia and all dell mobo's get blown capacitors after a while etc. no one i know likes dell the only people that buy them are hospitals and other not so smart people even schools stoped buying them and now they hav taken over alienware

 

Funny that, seeing as there are over a dozen people at my LAN party who own Dell monitors, not a single one has ever had a single dead pixel or fault. I can't speak for Dell PCs but their monitors are superb.

Oh and by the way, posts in all bold, double posting, and generally sounding like a retard are frowned upon in this forum.

 

Dell have good quality monitors...and i'm certain of that...my friend had one...and it's great...lot's of ports at the back...to bad it doesn't have HDMI port...

oh the 512MB model of HD3850 is faster than the 256MB right?...will the 256MB be enough to run games over ?1680x1280? can't remember the res...

 

cybrspwn, Dell monitors are actually very good. Most of the regulars here know what they are talking about so calling them "not so smart" is not a smart thing to do. Also I would suggest you spend about 50 AUD more and get a HD 3870, it much better.

GTR, About the HD 3850 512, hmm faster... well no. More RAM means you can turn up the textures though. Also I noticed you go off topic a lot? Where the hell is a monitor mentioned before? lol

 

I think the monitor came up because GTR asked me to post a picture of mine, which is a Dell Ultrasharp 3007WFP.
As for the 512MB version of the HD3850, I'd highly recommend getting it over the 256. The overall frame rate won't change much, but there will be some games where you'll get a ridiculously low frame rate with the 256, or the game won't run at all (if you run out of video memory). This is particularly known to happen with Crysis, and happens with some other titles at high resolutions. It doesn't happen often at 1680x1050 at the moment, but give it time and it might.

 

Lol I meant where did this come from.

 

Pff, maybe he only just spotted my system specs...