My 4650 has found a good home

ET3D · Sep 27, 2009, 07:48 AM

I won a Radeon 4650 at the spamming competition a while back, and though I tested it, and tried to see what overclock I can get, it ultimately was considerably slower than my 3870. It lasted for a while as a second card, in the hope I'll do some GPGPU on it (since it's more advanced than the 3870 in that respect), but I never got around to that.

Now it's found a place in my brother in law's PC. His Radeon X1800XT has been acting up for a while, causing crashes and freezes during gameplay, so I gave him the 4650, and he's quite satisfied with it (because unlike the X1800XT, it works). I have no idea if it's an upgrade in terms of performance or a downgrade (since it has a lot more computing power but a third the memory bandwidth of the X1800XT), but I think it'll work out fine. My brother in law plays a lot of games, but he doesn't understand much about graphics options, typically running at 1024x768 with default options.

BlueMak · Sep 27, 2009, 08:31 AM

The X1800XT is quite the card.
I don't know what else to say....happy gaming to your brother in law.

comp_ali · Sep 27, 2009, 10:56 AM

Nice , if you want to play lan FPS make sure he sets the graphics option to the lowest and so the view distant ......................this way you will win every time

j/k

Bolletje · Sep 27, 2009, 12:03 PM

What were the clocks you acheived

?

ET3D · Sep 27, 2009, 02:41 PM

I no longer remember. I think there's a post somewhere on these forums detailing them. They weren't anything special. I do remember that the Windows 7 performance test really stressed the card, and caused it to fail at overclocks where games like Assassin's Creed ran fine.

Sep 27, 2009, 07:48 AM	#1
ET3D Hopeless Dreamer Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Dreamland, near the pool of infinite graphics cards Posts: 3,057 Rep Power: 105 System Specs	My 4650 has found a good home I won a Radeon 4650 at the spamming competition a while back, and though I tested it, and tried to see what overclock I can get, it ultimately was considerably slower than my 3870. It lasted for a while as a second card, in the hope I'll do some GPGPU on it (since it's more advanced than the 3870 in that respect), but I never got around to that. Now it's found a place in my brother in law's PC. His Radeon X1800XT has been acting up for a while, causing crashes and freezes during gameplay, so I gave him the 4650, and he's quite satisfied with it (because unlike the X1800XT, it works). I have no idea if it's an upgrade in terms of performance or a downgrade (since it has a lot more computing power but a third the memory bandwidth of the X1800XT), but I think it'll work out fine. My brother in law plays a lot of games, but he doesn't understand much about graphics options, typically running at 1024x768 with default options.

Sep 27, 2009, 08:31 AM	#2
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,455 Rep Power: 348 System Specs	Re: My 4650 has found a good home The X1800XT is quite the card. I don't know what else to say....happy gaming to your brother in law. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Sep 27, 2009, 10:56 AM	#3
comp_ali Sniper Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Egypt Posts: 10,469 Rep Power: 339 System Specs	Re: My 4650 has found a good home Nice , if you want to play lan FPS make sure he sets the graphics option to the lowest and so the view distant ......................this way you will win every time j/k __________________

Sep 27, 2009, 12:03 PM	#4
Bolletje HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 1,224 Rep Power: 79 System Specs	Re: My 4650 has found a good home What were the clocks you acheived ?

Sep 27, 2009, 02:41 PM	Thread Starter #5
ET3D Hopeless Dreamer Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Dreamland, near the pool of infinite graphics cards Posts: 3,057 Rep Power: 105 System Specs	Re: My 4650 has found a good home I no longer remember. I think there's a post somewhere on these forums detailing them. They weren't anything special. I do remember that the Windows 7 performance test really stressed the card, and caused it to fail at overclocks where games like Assassin's Creed ran fine.