Tweaking Sapphire Radeon 4890 1GB

[gamer1291]

Hi everyone i am happy to tell u all that i finally bought Sapphire RADEON 4890HD 1GB and 600 W VIP PSU and i started gaming right away and this card rocks i maxed out everything in Quake 4,Sims 3 and some other games which i could not run with my old 7100GS but i need to know are there any kind of tweaks which can help me increase my graphic card performance other than overclocking and i really want to run this card on vista so i can use DirectX 10 but everyone told me that i should not go to vista coz i only have 2GB ram and i cant add more coz its my mobo limit but still i want to game in vista is there anyway to do it?

[Rudra.J]

There will be no problem on switching to Windows Vista, but it is very buggy, instead switch to Windows 7. For more Help and Details on Windows 7 see this : How to Install Windows 7 RC ?

[Birdie]

I think you can go for Windows XP , windows 7 is great but the full version is not yet available in the market it will be there on July 13 here are the price list http://forums.techarena.in/web-news-...tm#post4481918

[Majestic_Lizard]

5 year old games, like Quake 4, do not really test the performance of that card. You do not need to overclock that card in anyway. That is like considering putting a Cheetah on anabolic steroids because it can only run 120 mph. You do not need a Cheetah that can run 400 mph.

Also, just because the motherboard manufacturer says only 2 GB will go on the board does not mean its true. There is a pretty good chance that 4 GB will work in it, but that when the board was designed the engineers did not believe that modules above 1 GB would ever be manufactured.

For example: I've had ASUS boards that the ASUS site said could only see 1 GB, that used 2 GB with no problems. So, get two 2 GB modules and try it. Either it will work or it won't. Its not going to damage the board.