Upgrade from HD 4850?

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ir_virgil

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I've been looking at possible video upgrades for my pc that I built about three years ago. I intended go with crossfire when i built the machine, but budget constraints at the time limited me to one card.

I've been looking at adding another dual-slot HD 4850, but I'm wondering if there's a better option out there? Triple-head with display port looks interesting.

I have a core 2 duo e8400, 8 gb of pc6400, dfi x38 motherboard, corsair 650w psu.

I'd like to keep it under $100, but would it be worth springing for a $150 card and just replacing the 4850?
 
a 150usd card would roughly be a GTX460 or HD6850 right now. Maybe an outgoing HD5850.... all cards are better than the GTX285, to compare to a card of your GPU's generation.

EDIT: another easy way of putting it: nearly as well as HD4850 CF, without the RAM limitaitons (assuming you have the 512mb variant) nor the normal multiGPU mess of the HD4000 series.

EDIT: HD5000/HD6000 series AMD cards can drive 3+ displays off of a single card (only two TDMS driven ones, so all the other displays must be native/active displayport - max of 6 outputs, though only the HD5870 e6 is configured with the right amount of outputs for this), nVidia is still at the old limit of two outputs at a time.
 
I agree with the above. Sell your 4850 for $50 ( $40 after shipping ) and then get a better single card.

Going crossfire with another HD 4850 would get you a bit of speed but they are not optomized for crossfire nearly as good as the 6xxx cards.
 
I would highly recommend either the ATI 6850 1GB or GTX 460, both are excellent cards and excellent upgrades from a 4850. I have tried both of those cards, and I had a 4870 before, and its a huge improvement. I've got the 6870 2gb now, and if you have the money, its completely worth it!!!
 
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