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Geek Culture / 4850 overkill on athlon x2 5200?

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nj18
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Posted: 25th Jan 2011 21:02
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Hey guys,

So I'm looking to do a cheap upgrade to my PC. I have a
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ at 2.7ghz
4gh DDR2 RAM

I'm looking at a Radeon hd 4850 for about $60 from ebay but will my CPU be to much of a bottleneck? I would like to get all I can get out of my PC to run games like Medal of Honor Tier 1 if possible, but I don't want to put good money into a card that wont help my system much because the CPU is holding it back.

Or would it be better to save the money and go for a Radeon HD 5570 or Radeon X1950 Pro at $35?

Thank you!

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Indicium
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Posted: 25th Jan 2011 22:15
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I don't see why it would be.

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Ocho Geek
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Posted: 25th Jan 2011 22:47
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I would presume you will have problems with MOH with that processor.
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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 26th Jan 2011 09:42
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you can always upgrade the CPU

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charger bandit
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Posted: 26th Jan 2011 14:56
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You should buy the 4850,it's a pretty good graphics card,I have an 4770 and all the new games work smoothly.


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nj18
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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 17:27
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Thanks for the help guys, I bought a 4830 for $50 shipped.
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Master Man Of Justice
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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 18:24
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where!!!! lol my crappy 4650 is still like $60-70

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nj18
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Posted: 29th Jan 2011 21:52
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Haha I got by trolling eBay, and waiting for that right price. I used goofbay.com to snipe it with 5 seconds left, it worked really well.
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sindore
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I got a 4890 and run it on my dads pc which is a AMD Athlon x 2 4400+, 4gb 800mhz memory, and could play crysis on heigh settings, laged a bit on ultra heigh.
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kaedroho
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I have a 5 year old AMD Athlon 5600+ with an Nvidia Geforce 9800 GTX+.

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