Thinking about getting an ATI Radeon HD 4890...

So here I am not being involved in pc gaming for at least 3 years. Last rig I had was a decent one, with a quick Pentium 4 HT and an ati radeon x800 until my house in Detroit got firebombed and it went byebye. So here I am again, wanting to get back to it, especially trying out games like crysis.

My comp's a Gateway GT5662 with a AMD Phenom x4 9500 (2.2 GHz), 3 gb ddr2 ram, and a 500 gb hd. I'm going to replace the weak 300w power supply as well as an ATI Radeon HD 2400xt. What I'm wondering is that if my motherboard can fit a 4890 (since they're infamous for being rather long). Here's a pic

Any input would be helpful!

  On 11/6/2009 at 5:58 PM, Renivatio said:

So here I am not being involved in pc gaming for at least 3 years. Last rig I had was a decent one, with a quick Pentium 4 HT and an ati radeon x800 until my house in Detroit got firebombed and it went byebye. So here I am again, wanting to get back to it, especially trying out games like crysis.

 

My comp's a Gateway GT5662 with a AMD Phenom x4 9500 (2.2 GHz), 3 gb ddr2 ram, and a 500 gb hd. I'm going to replace the weak 300w power supply as well as an ATI Radeon HD 2400xt. What I'm wondering is that if my motherboard can fit a 4890 (since they're infamous for being rather long). Here's a pic

 

 

Any input would be helpful!

Well, Newegg has it for 199USD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161276&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Video+Cards-_-Hightech+Information+System+Ltd.-_-14161276

well as long as you don't have a really tiny case the card should fit in it. if you really are unsure, there should be specs for the card somewhere including H x W x D numbers.

should fit though as long as it's the same graphics port, i'm assuming your mobo has a PCIe for GPUs.

  On 11/6/2009 at 6:04 PM, theSun said:

well as long as you don't have a really tiny case the card should fit in it. if you really are unsure, there should be specs for the card somewhere including H x W x D numbers.

 

should fit though as long as it's the same graphics port, i'm assuming your mobo has a PCIe for GPUs.

yeh, it's PCIe. imma check the dimensions out, since I hear they're 10 inches. hope it isnt too big..

I have a 4890... it's a sweet card... paired with my Q6600 @ 3.1Ghz I can just about play anything maxed out, spare crysis; though, I can play it on high settings, just not extreme. The 5800 series is out right now too. The 5850 just barely out performs the the 4890 in the benchmarks I've seen but uses a fraction of the power. What games are you playing? You could probably get by with a 4850 if funds are tight.

also it looks like your mobo has a PCIe x16 slot and the 4890 is the PCIe 2.0... it should still work being the 2.0 cards are backwards compatible but you wont be getting the full data throughput, though I think you are bottlenecked by your CPU anyhow... it's time for a new system homie.

damn, it's time to start saving teh monies then hah. thanks tho

the 4890 seems gimmicky for the price as it's not much better than the 4870 .. it's a competitive release. just my opinion though, i got the sapphire 1gb 4850 and it fuckin rolls.

even then, the 5800 series might be better since they're DirectX 11.

  On 11/6/2009 at 6:10 PM, Renivatio said:

since I hear they're 10 inches. hope it isnt too big..

...that's what she said?

fuckin lol

  On 11/6/2009 at 6:16 PM, goffer said:

also it looks like your mobo has a PCIe x16 slot and the 4890 is the PCIe 2.0... it should still work being the 2.0 cards are backwards compatible but you wont be getting the full data throughput, though I think you are bottlenecked by your CPU anyhow... it's time for a new system homie.

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i have no concrete advice for you dude other than to upgrade it all. I've got the 4870x2 and it is outstanding.

well yah I guess if your not gonna have money for a new computer figure out the cheapest cooling solution to overclock your CPU. im sure you could get those cores to 2.8ghz-3ghz. and dont spend more than a hundred bucks on graphics card as anything more would be more than you can really take advantage of. I would suggest around a NVIDIA 9800GTX if you want to play crysis wars/warhead