Computer Advances

THe Vision Tek HD 4850 has been reviewed by the guys over at Vr-Zone. This card is going to be the middle card of the 4800's series while the 4870 and 4870X2 are ahead of it. The tests were all run with a QX9650@ 4.0ghz. From what I can tell the card is not all that great and seems to be on par with my 8800GTS 512@stock. It is supposed to beat a new GTX 280 in crossfire mode with 3DMark Vantage, but 3DMark's do not really show the real performance numbers as in games.

This is a picture of the first official review of the GTX 280. THe two resolutions are 1600X1200 and 2560X1200, but only four games were tested. The games are Crysis, Half Life 2, Company of Hero's, and World in Conflict. Overall it beats the 9800GX2 in all of the games except for Company of Hero's which it lost by one.