I currently have the EAH3870 video card. However, should I upgrade to ATI 4870 or should I wait a little longer for the price of the video card to decrease?
If you are happy with 3870 ATM wait, if you arent happy with it go for it. But HD4870 is really low on stock at the moment everyone I talk to around the globe so finding it also might be a hassle if you wait a bit until the demand drops price drops which will be a month or 2 then wait but if you really need that power now and have the spare cash go for it.
Wait for the price to decrease a bit. The 3870 is a good card and it shouldn't be giving you too much trouble right now. The 4850 is almost half the price(160 vs 290) and performs about 85% of the 4870. Something to consider maybe?
Go with the 4850, it's still vastly faster than the 3870 with the same great image quality. The 4870 is faster still, and is available, but costs considerably more for not as much gain.
Well why get a 4850 when he can wait 1 month and get a 4870 for the price of nearly a 4850 now?, and upgrading from a 3870 is just not worth it ATM, seriously only game that would have troubles is Crysis and not even a 4870 can run that properly on Very High with a decent resolution. And I will never change my opinion on this its like everyone who bought a 8800 going out and buying a 4870 why would you ATM? you upgrade when something has difficulties running not when you randomly feel like it so when some new games come out and you see your 3870 struggles (Excluding Crysis because that game is Trash and is coded like Trash.) then upgrade until then keep your money save up and who knows maybe you could buy a 4870x2 at the time your 3870 starts struggling for not alot.
Why would that happen? What's going to come out that forces the price of the 4870 down? It's already one of the best value graphics cards on the market. The reason why people are upgrading from the 8800GT and 3870 to the 4870 is that games that are laggy and juddery at high settings are perfectly smooth with them - the increase in power is so vast compared to previous generations, that it completely transforms how your PC plays games.
I clearly dont understand what the hell you are saying? a 8800GT is enough to run everything on high except Crysis ATM and so would a 3870 only a few fps slower but yes 4870 is better but seeing a 3870 is still good enough why not wait a month ? Yea nothing will drive prices down instantly but weaker sales which will happend during the next 1 -2 months after this launch period is over will force prices down alone not to mention if Nvidia steps up and reduces some of their prices.
Well some people like playing Crysis. The fact is that the 4850 is a much faster card, almost twice as fast as a 8800GT which is faster than a 3870.
But why get a 4850 if you only pay what 50au more for a 4870 especially if he dosent have X-Fire he needs to get most power out of that one slot and he has never stated crysis a game which even on a 4870 dosent run that great still man that game had a crap coding team.
Not everybody uses the tiny resolution you do. 1920x1200 is increasingly common with gamers and when you turn the details up, there are quite a lot of games that cards can't cope with there. There are also at least 4 or 5 titles that can't be run maxed at 1680x1050 in addition to Crysis, on an 8800GT. The 4870 by the way, is a lot more than the 4850. In the UK, the 4850 is £120, the 4870 is £175. In the US, the 4850 is $175, and the 4870 is $270. That's a significant difference.
what tiny resolution? I dont see how 1680x1050 is a tiny resolution, then name those 4 games I know GRID DIRT both run fine with my resoltuion 1680x1050 maxxed out with 4xMSAA.
GRiD will run fine, I use a 3870 at 2560x1600 with no issues, but I don't believe you can max DiRT at that res. I can only pull of 1280x1024, and even then it runs pretty jittery with lots of action...
Ah right, just read up that GRiD only runs properly on nvidia cards. Where the HD3870 gets 10fps, an 8800GTX gets about 25. That would explain it.
