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*** ATI RADEON 4850 IN STOCK! ***

shaffaaf27 said:
thanks.

mmm, well with both the TX750 and the HX620 being the same price, im now stuck LOL, a little help? i am a cable mangment freak, so i was thinking the HX620, but i can hide cables easy, so that wont be a problem with non modular........:confused:


and with corsair announcing an EU/UK RMA centre, i will be choosing their PSUs.

looking at the OcUK site, seing both 2 years and 1 year Gigabyte gfx waranties. :(
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I have the TX and the cables are very long. Bloody nightmare to tidy.
 
Do these perform 30% faster than a 8800GT?

If not, how does is 30% price increase justified?

Looking at the benchies, it doesn't look to be a huge amount faster than my midly overclocked GT.
 
krooton said:
Do these perform 30% faster than a 8800GT?

If not, how does is 30% price increase justified?

Looking at the benchies, it doesn't look to be a huge amount faster than my midly overclocked GT.
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LOL How much was the GT when it first came out? ;) :p. Prices are always a little bit dearer to begin with. That has never changed so I don't know why you're surprised that on launch day it's a little bit dearer than expected. However, knocking a card that's beating my 8800GTX at 2560x1600/4xAA and even at lower resolutions for £140 is a bit OTT.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Powercolor/HD_4850/

http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-ati-radeon-hd-4850-review-force-3d--powercolor/1
 
Ka0ticMind said:
Hiya..would a Tagan TG800-BZ 800w Modular BZ Series PSU be ok to run two 4870 cards and a Quad Q9450 cpu?
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Tagan's seem to go for cheap caps these days so i wouldn't recommend them. It should run it without a problem but reliability could be a problem in the long run.
 
J.D said:
LOL How much was the GT when it first came out? ;) :p. Prices are always a little bit dearer to begin with. That has never changed so I don't know why you're surprised that on launch day it's a little bit dearer than expected. However, knocking a card that's beating my 8800GTX at 2560x1600/4xAA and even at lower resolutions for £140 is a bit OTT.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Powercolor/HD_4850/

http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-ati-radeon-hd-4850-review-force-3d--powercolor/1
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I'm not knocking it, but it doesn't seem a worthwhile upgrade from a GT is all.

I'll probably move to a 4870 in 6 months once their prices have dropped.

All depends on what's the best bang for buck at the time. My GT stills plays everything I need.
 
krooton said:
Do these perform 30% faster than a 8800GT?

If not, how does is 30% price increase justified?

Looking at the benchies, it doesn't look to be a huge amount faster than my midly overclocked GT.
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The NDA was only revealed because a number of sites started giving away specs, the cards aren't officially shipping in volume at this time, hence the current prices, come next week more retailers will have them and prices should come down a bit.

Then again, it's not like the 4850 can't clock or anything, Guru3D got the core clock up to 700MHz, the max CCC will allow, and 2300MHz memory, which is a reasonably substantial overclock from the 625MHz core, 1986MHz memory stock clocks.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-ati-radeon-hd-4850-review-force-3d--powercolor/16
 
krooton said:
I'm not knocking it, but it doesn't seem a worthwhile upgrade from a GT is all.

I'll probably move to a 4870 in 6 months once their prices have dropped.

All depends on what's the best bang for buck at the time. My GT stills plays everything I need.
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I agree. It's the reason I'm not upgrading to the 4850 right now also. My GTX does me fine and I game at higher than 1920x1200 when I can. Even though the 4850 would be a slight upgrade for me, I don't feel it's worth it right now. 4870 or 4870X2 will be the next card for me.

The 4870 will be a better upgrade I feel for you if you decide to go that way. GDDR5 is looking fantastic for bandwidth but nothing to relate to performance at high resolutions yet. If everything is playing fine however then I wouldn't bother even changing. You want to see the change in your gaming, not notice that you have 20 extra FPS in a game that was totally smooth before the swap.
 
krooton said:
I'm not knocking it, but it doesn't seem a worthwhile upgrade from a GT is all.

I'll probably move to a 4870 in 6 months once their prices have dropped.

All depends on what's the best bang for buck at the time. My GT stills plays everything I need.
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Tech power up review concluded that the 4850 is 14% faster than 8800GT so no don't think it's worth it. However if the price go lower which it undoubtedly will I'll be tempted.
 
steve258 said:
Tech power up review concluded that the 4850 is 14% faster than 8800GT so no don't think it's worth it. However if the price go lower which it undoubtedly will I'll be tempted.
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Yep, but I like to upgrade my card by a minimum of 20% performance increase.

So even if the price did drop to £100, a 14% increase wouldn't be worth the hassle of taking apart my machine, cleaning all the drivers, reinstalling Catalyst, etc.

Plus I have an aftermarket cooler on my GT, and that wasn't fun to install, lol

Once the 4870 hits £150, or nvidia can come with something comparable in the price range, I'll make the move
 
Scougar said:
My only concern that I see is this singular comment on the anandtech review:
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Like the others have said that's got to be a faulty PSU. It's impossible for a pair of 4850s to draw more than 300w - they can get 75w from each PCI-e slot and 75w from the PCI-e power cables, so 300w in total. Going beyond that would lead to nasty burning smells as things burnt out.
 
DrBombcrater said:
Like the others have said that's got to be a faulty PSU. It's impossible for a pair of 4850s to draw more than 300w - they can get 75w from each PCI-e slot and 75w from the PCI-e power cables, so 300w in total. Going beyond that would lead to nasty burning smells as things burnt out.
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Well according to the 9800GTX+ review two 4850's with a quad uses less than 400w under load so how the hell they thought a 850w psu couldn't handle it, i'm lost.
 
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With the 3rd card running in a x4 slot :eek:
 
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