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Written by gameh0lic
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 08:47 |
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Call of Duty 4? Buttery smooth... Supreme Commander? Done!... Bioshock? No problem!.. AMD's new R700 based Radeon 4850 slices through every game like Ryu's Dragon Sword doing an Izuma Drop through a mob of demon samurais. Well, every game besides Crysis; but Crysis kills EVERY video card out there. It even made Hitler cry, so it doesn't count. As some of you may know, I recently picked up one of these new fangled cards for my gaming rig and I honestly didn't believe the benchmarks out there that placed this $199 card at the upper echelons of the hardware ladder. Well imagine my surprise as I fired up Rainbow Six Vegas 2 at an eye-popping 1920x1200 resolution (all settings cranked on HIGH) and saw nothing but silky smooth video that outclassed my Xbox360.
While nVidia has decided to take the high road by stuffing more transistors into their latest GPU than Rosie O'Donnell at a chinese buffet, AMD decided to go with a more mainstream approach: Create a highly efficient, highly scaleable mid-range chip and then scale it up for high-end applications. The result is a video card line that is both powerful and affordable. I applaud these efforts in the wake of increasing prices for everything from video cards to gasoline. I feared that PC Gaming was on the decline thanks to ever increasing hardware costs in light of more powerful consoles. The 4850 has effectively reversed this trend as you can now build a 4850 based PC for around $500 that is graphically superior to the 360 and PS3. In fact I am replaying Mass Effect and Call of Duty 4 on my updated PC since it looks so much better than I remember on my 360, It's almost like a whole new game. In that sense, the Radeon 4850 is like Chuck Norris. He is truly an enigma in that he is the epitome of awesome but can be hired for pennies compared to an actor like Tom Cruise. Anything he touches is automatically badass! So if you want your gaming rig to roundhouse kick all your games into a bloody pulp, grab a 4850 (I hear they are going for under $190 on newegg.com )... Hell, grab two 4850's... that's like 2 Siamese Twin Chuck Norris'... What is more awesome than 2 Siamese Twin Chuck Norris'?
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 02 July 2008 19:24 )
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In that case, I'm going to have to buy an Nvidia.