Hi I am having lagging and choppy gameplay with my 4850. This card gets really hot about 60c at idle and 70c to 80c at load depending on what games I throw at it. I am starting to think that this maybe an overheating issue but I don't know. that is why I am here asking for help. My pc specs are as follow:
Intel Pentium D 2 core cpu at 3.0 ghz
400 watt PSU ( Had a BFG 550 watt but replaced it due to the fan not working. The problem still persists with this PSU)
4 gigs of RAM
I had a Nvidia Geforce 9800 GT a while back and it ran smooth. I had no problems with that card. But the stock cooling system was not effecient and it overheated. Now back to the 4850. This card ran good on another pc that I use to have. No lag. That pc had a AMD cpu so my guess is that maybe this card runs better on AMD due to the fact that AMD is part of ATI. May I remind you that I have a Intel cpu. Also when I play a game (Warcraft III at pc startup before running any other applications) the game does fine and the fps is smooth. But around 10 mins in, the fps starts to drop and it seems as if the card can not keep up with my cpu's speed. My theory is that my cpu is working to its full capacity but the card does not push pixels fast enough to keep the game running smoothly. At this stage the card is running like a low end card. This card is a high end budget card so it should not act like this. I have also read that this card is faster than the 9800 GT that I used to have but in my case the 9800 GT performed way better. I tried playing Starcraft II and at the start the game is flawless. About 5 mins in, it starts lagging and doing the same thing it does with Warcraft III. This may also be a RAM issue as well I think but I don't know. It has 512 mb of RAM GDDR3. My 9800 GT had 1 gig of RAM GDDR3. Please if anybody can answer or have suggestions, it would be greatly appriciated. Drivers and patches are up to date.
Intel Pentium D 2 core cpu at 3.0 ghz
400 watt PSU ( Had a BFG 550 watt but replaced it due to the fan not working. The problem still persists with this PSU)
4 gigs of RAM
I had a Nvidia Geforce 9800 GT a while back and it ran smooth. I had no problems with that card. But the stock cooling system was not effecient and it overheated. Now back to the 4850. This card ran good on another pc that I use to have. No lag. That pc had a AMD cpu so my guess is that maybe this card runs better on AMD due to the fact that AMD is part of ATI. May I remind you that I have a Intel cpu. Also when I play a game (Warcraft III at pc startup before running any other applications) the game does fine and the fps is smooth. But around 10 mins in, the fps starts to drop and it seems as if the card can not keep up with my cpu's speed. My theory is that my cpu is working to its full capacity but the card does not push pixels fast enough to keep the game running smoothly. At this stage the card is running like a low end card. This card is a high end budget card so it should not act like this. I have also read that this card is faster than the 9800 GT that I used to have but in my case the 9800 GT performed way better. I tried playing Starcraft II and at the start the game is flawless. About 5 mins in, it starts lagging and doing the same thing it does with Warcraft III. This may also be a RAM issue as well I think but I don't know. It has 512 mb of RAM GDDR3. My 9800 GT had 1 gig of RAM GDDR3. Please if anybody can answer or have suggestions, it would be greatly appriciated. Drivers and patches are up to date.