Hey there,
I have had problems with my good old HD4850 for a long time now (from ugly artifacts to blue screens, I got them all). I have it now running with the standard windows VGA driver, without dual display, and at a poor resolution.
It started when I switched from XP to Win 7 (About 1 year ago. I'm sort of conservative, I know). I thought that it would be solved by switching to Win10 (I try to catch up). No luck. I've read that there was no more driver updates for that card/chipset for many years. Long story short, I'm getting old and tired of trying to fix it (which seems to be delusional, anyways).
I am looking for your advice/input for a cheap but decent replacement video card (comparable to the late-to-be HD4850) that would fit the PCI express 2.0 16 port of my GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L and that could handle 2 DVI displays (used as extended displays, not clone). I'm comfortable with 1680*1024 resolution, but that would be minimum. I need it to work with Win10 (I guess if it works with Win7, it would with Win10).
Please consider me as a noob, no offense taken. I lost track of what is now standard in terms of video card/adapter (video card with 2 dvi ports vs. video card with single DVI port + dual display adapter), ...
My budget is (preferably way) below $100.
All advice will be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Manuwell
I have had problems with my good old HD4850 for a long time now (from ugly artifacts to blue screens, I got them all). I have it now running with the standard windows VGA driver, without dual display, and at a poor resolution.
It started when I switched from XP to Win 7 (About 1 year ago. I'm sort of conservative, I know). I thought that it would be solved by switching to Win10 (I try to catch up). No luck. I've read that there was no more driver updates for that card/chipset for many years. Long story short, I'm getting old and tired of trying to fix it (which seems to be delusional, anyways).
I am looking for your advice/input for a cheap but decent replacement video card (comparable to the late-to-be HD4850) that would fit the PCI express 2.0 16 port of my GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L and that could handle 2 DVI displays (used as extended displays, not clone). I'm comfortable with 1680*1024 resolution, but that would be minimum. I need it to work with Win10 (I guess if it works with Win7, it would with Win10).
Please consider me as a noob, no offense taken. I lost track of what is now standard in terms of video card/adapter (video card with 2 dvi ports vs. video card with single DVI port + dual display adapter), ...
My budget is (preferably way) below $100.
All advice will be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Manuwell
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