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  • 28-04-2013 11:21pm
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    Stonewolf
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    My friend is currently keeping his PC at my house and will be for a few months. He recently scored a free graphics card from another friend and I'm trying to see what the best thing to do with it is.

    Our computers are:
    Mine: i7 920, 12gb, P6T Deluxe, Sapphire HD4350 512mb
    His: Core 2 Duo (2.4Ghz), 2gb, P5KPL/1600, Sapphire X1650 Pro 512mb

    The "new" card is a Sapphire HD5850 1gb. Both our PCs have PCI-E x16 slots and can manage the power requirements.

    My question is whether his machine would present a sufficient bottleneck that while it's here we'd be better off swapping the 4350 into it and running the 5850 in mine (we're good friends and like to game together when he comes over).


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    Deano12345
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    The 4350 and the 1650 are pretty close, with the 4350 being a little bit ahead. At 2.4GHz, the 5850 would actually be bottlenecked by the C2D, however if its paired with the i7 its still a very capable card, especially if its overclocked. I ran a Q9550 with the 5850 up until last year and it played everything I threw at it, and your i7 would be faster than the C2Q I had.

    TL;DR : Pair the 5850 with the i7 and the 4350 with the C2D and enjoy your gaming !


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    Stonewolf
    Registered Users Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭Stonewolf


    Yeah, that's what I figured, what I need to know though is whether it would be bottlenecked so badly in the C2D that it wouldn't offer much over the 4350 (since it's his card and all).


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    Deano12345
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    Stonewolf wrote: »
    Yeah, that's what I figured, what I need to know though is whether it would be bottlenecked so badly in the C2D that it wouldn't offer much over the 4350 (since it's his card and all).

    Which C2D is it ? E2200 ?


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    Stonewolf
    Registered Users Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭Stonewolf


    It claims to be an E4600


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    Deano12345
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    Stonewolf wrote: »
    It claims to be an E4600

    Sounds about right yeah, my C2D clock speed knowledge aint what it used to be :o

    It'll definitely bottleneck it down to about 50% of the 5850's potential, however even with the bottleneck it'll be still faster than a 4350


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    TerrorFirmer
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    A 5850 with any Core 2 CPU would be infinitely faster than a 4350. In order to cause CPU bottlenecking running a 4350 you'd actually have to be running an old Pentium 4! Not accurate either to say that a 2.4Ghz Core 2 would limit the 5850 to 50% of its potential. An E4600 with a 5850 versus an E4600 with a 4350 would be the difference between HD resolution/high settings versus 800x600/low settings on most titles within the past few years.

    An X1650Pro is also somewhat faster than a 4350, the 4350 is a 64-bit card, and not designed for games at all even though its a few years newer. The 4550 is probably a closer match and that's about twice the speed of the 4350.

    But all in all obviously it makes far more sense to put the 5850 into your i7 machine. Even for today's latest the 5850 is still a pretty decent card.


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    Freddy Smelly
    Registered Users Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Freddy Smelly


    Stonewolf wrote: »
    My friend is currently keeping his PC at my house and will be for a few months. He recently scored a free graphics card from another friend and I'm trying to see what the best thing to do with it is.

    Our computers are:
    Mine: i7 920, 12gb, P6T Deluxe, Sapphire HD4350 512mb
    His: Core 2 Duo (2.4Ghz), 2gb, P5KPL/1600, Sapphire X1650 Pro 512mb

    The "new" card is a Sapphire HD5850 1gb. Both our PCs have PCI-E x16 slots and can manage the power requirements.

    My question is whether his machine would present a sufficient bottleneck that while it's here we'd be better off swapping the 4350 into it and running the 5850 in mine (we're good friends and like to game together when he comes over).

    the card should run fine... the low amount of system ram (2gb) would be more of a bottleneck imo


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