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JDELUNA
03-16-10, 12:47 PM
I have a chance to purchase both of these cards used. Which one is the better of the 2 ?? I am not trying to start any fanboy wars :argue: I am just trying to get the best one out of the 2. If anyone wants to know they are the same price approx. $150 each. Thanks for any info. God Bless :)


***Oh yeah this will not be going into the system in my signature, it will be going into a Gateway FX7026. Thanks again !!!
Bobnova
03-16-10, 01:00 PM
An individual 4850 beats an individual 9800 with the exception of the 9800GTX+, which is equal to a 4850 generally speaking.

I don't know what flavor core went into the gx2, but if it's anything but a 9800gtx+ the 4850x2 will beat it.


Either way, i would check the PSU on that gateway and make sure it's up to the task, both cards draw a lot of juice.
JDELUNA
03-16-10, 01:29 PM
An individual 4850 beats an individual 9800 with the exception of the 9800GTX+, which is equal to a 4850 generally speaking.

I don't know what flavor core went into the gx2, but if it's anything but a 9800gtx+ the 4850x2 will beat it.


Either way, i would check the PSU on that gateway and make sure it's up to the task, both cards draw a lot of juice.


Thanks for the info. Supposedly the 9800GX2 SSC is a super-superclocked version, which is like the top of the line version for the 9800GX2.

Also yeah I have a BFG 850watt PSU that I will be installing. Thanks again for any info. God Bless !!! :)
Bobnova
03-16-10, 03:18 PM
Generally speaking the SSC/OC editions are just normal cards with a factory OC, if you OC them you typically run into the same limits as non-factory OC cards.

There may be exceptions, I have yet to hear of one other then the Lightning 5xxx series cards.
GotNoRice
03-16-10, 03:51 PM
I have not used SLI for quite some time but I believe the microstutter was worse on SLI with those generation of cards than on crossfire with 48xx cards. Another issue is the 9800GX2 being DirectX10 vs. 10.1 on the 4850x2. There were not a lot of games that came out using 10.1 but the way DirectX 11 works, it has separate downlevel paths for 10 and 10.1 hardware to enable older hardware to run DirectX11, so as odd as it sounds 10.1 might finally start being utilized via DirectX11.