Recent content by WildCat87

Make the Vista partition 30GB. My Vista x64 is eating 20GB, with 10GB left for future updates.

Yep. Even says so in the images.

Yep, I just upgraded to an HD 4850 from an X1900XT (it died a few days ago). Just remove the drivers, swap out the cards, download and install the latest drivers, and start playing. :)

Not a great PSU, but it should be fine for an HD 4850.

It's fine, as long as it's a good quality PSU. I'm still using my 3 year old Enermax Liberty 500W PSU and it's still rock solid. My processor has been overclocked since Day 1, and now my HD 4850 is as well.

Then just get the card like I did. Bottom line is you will get more performance, but you will not come close to the card's full potential until you upgrade all the other important stuff. At least you have a dual core anyway, even if it's old.

My X1900XT just died a few days ago, and I got an HD 4850 to replace it (for now). Let me tell you... The rest of my system cannot keep up with this thing. I had no choice, I had to get a new card, but my plan was to wait until I built a brand new PC.

Thanks for the post, Eva.

Stock DIAMOND HD 4850 The Auto-Tune option in the CCC went up to 690/1138, but I backed them down to 680/1125 (9%/13% overclock). I'm pretty sure it can go a little higher if I tell the fan to go faster or something, but I'm thinking of returning it and getting the HD 4870.

Thanks for looking out. ;) I also added my ORB link to my post just in case anyone wants to check it out.

Add this I will claim the first 3DMark06 single core score on this list. Hopefully I did everything right. :) 7566 - WildCat87 - AMD Opteron 148 @ 2.8GHz - ATi Radeon HD 4850 @ 680 Core 1125 Mem - Windows XP ORB Link

Yeah, I was part of it too! :)

I had to go back to 8.4 because 8.5 wouldn't display correctly on my HDMI 22" computer monitor.

Far Cry = CryTek Far Cry 2 = Ubisoft ;)

Meh... I actually see it the other way around. More ads in games = Less sales = More downloads... But I dunno.