Getting 4850 - anyone want a Sapphire 3870?

[Jet]

There's so much more to life than 3dmark.

 

[Aastii]

I cannot find any FPS tests for the 4850 against an EVGA gts250, which IMO is better than any other brand. They have pretty much the highest stock clocks, and are the most overclockable! I haven't seen anybody get close to my nearly 18k 3dmark06 score running a single 4850 with a Phenom II.

Closest comparison I've found so far, even being intel, was a core 2 duo [email protected] and an overclocked 4850 (800/1125, stock was 625/993 so thats a large overclock) scored 15,156 with a CPU score of 3581. Now, with my Phenom II 550 as a dual core at 3.8ghz, gts250 OC'd to 825/1350 (stock 756/1100), I score 15,5xx with a CPU score of around 3100. So, I have a lower CPU score with lower CPU clocks yet I score 400 points higher? Thats all simply GPU being better there.

There's so much more to life than 3dmark.

lmao, pwned

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

that should show you what i mean by benchmark tests

so you don't have to go looking,

gts 250: 1118

4850: 1333

that is about the most balanced system and the most balanced comparison you can find, and as you can see, in benchmarks and in every other use both are very very similar.

I should point out i'm not putting down the gts250, or bigging p the 4850, just saying, they are similar, if the gts250 was slightly higher than the 4850 (as the opposite is shown here) i would still post it because of how closely similar they are, that is my point.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...uality/3DMark06-v1.1.0-3DMark-Score,1468.html

that shows the same thing

 

[87dtna]

There's so much more to life than 3dmark.

Why do you think I opened with-

I cannot find any FPS tests for the 4850 against an EVGA gts250

lmao, pwned

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

that should show you what i mean by benchmark tests

so you don't have to go looking,

gts 250: 1118

4850: 1333

that is about the most balanced system and the most balanced comparison you can find, and as you can see, in benchmarks and in every other use both are very very similar.

Once again, an EVGA gts250 just seems to be better than any other brand. Show me tests between any 4850 vs an EVGA gts250 and I'll be satisfied.
And BTW, that also shows the 9800gtx being better than a gtx+, and in fact in shows the 9800gtx being a good bit better than the gts250 that was tested which is a real joke. Furthermore, it shows a 4830 better than the 9800gtx which is THE most hilarious part of it all. Yeah your ''pwned'' link is very accurate.
Edit- Nope I saw something even better! Did you know that a 4870 is better than a 4870 x2? According to your passmark link a single 4870 whips an x2. Yeah this makes sense.