HD4850 Waste of $$ on XP?

[hmkim]

I ordered a Sapphire HD4850 (will arrive tomorrow) and today a friend said that it is optimized for DirectX 10 and that, thus, it would be a waste of money on the XP, compared with the 3870, which I have.

Well, I'm very happy with the XP SP3 and have no plan to upgrade to the Vista yet. I've looked at several benchmarks for the 4850 and all of them were run on the Vista!

So, is my friend correct?

[zanzabar]

it should be better, with more TMU it should do dx9 AA/AF better

[Yukon Trooper]

Your friend has no idea what he's talking about.

[Omastar]

lol, GG to your friend. All new DX10 compatible cards will inevitably perform better in native DX9 games or games where DX9 is forced. Remember the 8800GTX? It was stellar in DX9, and no one knew its DX10 performance at the outset, but we all knew the scores would be lower under the new API.

[disruptfam]

Your friend has no idea what he's talking about.

+100000000000000000000000

[Battle_Rattle]

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r198/Battle_Rattle/bagdad_bob_large.gif

[xoqolatl]

Where do you get the original picture, without any captions?

[Jowy Atreides]

Where do you get the original picture, without any captions?

just save that one and mspaint the text white.
Voila, you have the source

[tiro_uspsss]

Your friend has no idea what he's talking about.

+++++++++++11111111111111

[Rattle]

well I can say they perform well in dx9 games in vista 64 anyway :ROTF:

[Eniqmah]

Your friend has no idea what he's talking about.


Friends don't let friends buy Vista.

[Loser777]

Your friend has no idea what he's talking about.
+1.