Lawlacaust Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Heating isn't a problem you just have to have a good stock cooler or enable manual fan control and turn up the fan speed and with the 4850 you only need 1 6pin connecter so its not that power hungry it when you get into the 1-2 gig verisons where power is much more needed and then you need 2 6pin connecters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blove Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 If you replace the cooler it is not $50 anymore and if you turn up the stock cooler you can't stay in the room. I have one sitting on my desk that I recently removed from an old computer that I had built for someone else. It idles at 80C. With the fan tweak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawlacaust Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 (edited) Then its something on your end blove mine idles at 65c & thats at 69% fan speed Edited November 9, 2012 by Lawlacaust Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blove Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I will ship you the card. 4850 is a terrible choice at any price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMod Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 Heating isn't a problemPower draw is. OP doesn't appear to have a PSU with power to spare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonAviator Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 If you are not worried about screen wavey lines and dishadow distortions there are a host of older card that will render basic Skyrim. However, if you want clear screens and minimal distortion abberent shadow effects you will need a IGByte card no earlier than a NvidiaGTENG 460 seried which will support Ultra settings at 1680 x 1050, and witha suitable screen far higher resolutions screen rates. for Skyrim you also need a 2ms Black black screen refresh rate to allow fast motion rendering correctly. With Skyrim you need a good graphics rendering capability to by passthe uglies inthe skyrim code for drawing screens in the game. My laptop has a 4.5 Gbyte intel 3000 video GPU. renders flat greyish screens at 1920 x1080 with good detail but poor color definition. Fortunately, the laptophas an interleaved nvidia Geforce GT540M 2Gbyte that irun as the piimary video card for very good clear and distortion free screens at ultra settings. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor. Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 (edited) I found one other video cards in your price range that might be a little better, has 2gb of ram instead of 1. http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814125411draw back its ddr3 instead of 5. Edited November 12, 2012 by Thor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMod Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Everything else equal, 1GB GDDR5 is much better than 2GB GDDR3. Every time, every resolution, every set of circumstances, short of very specific strictly non-gaming tasks. Everything else isn't equal here - GT430 isn't even a useful video card. It's only slightly faster than HD4000. Why would you even suggest something like it?No one pits it against real video cards, so this is just to show how enormous the gap between GT430 (even if you put 100GB of RAM on it) and HD7750 is: http://www.hwcompare.com/11762/geforce-gt-430-vs-radeon-hd-7750/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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