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4870's aint out till Wed are they ?
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*** ATI RADEON 4850 IN STOCK! ***
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I believe a few stores do have them though, so we might be seeing real information but yes official launch is wednesday, gonna be some interesting weeks ahead.
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Damn, i was hoping to read the reviews on Monday. 
well its diminishing returns as is the case with 90%+ of all PC stuff. 4850 will no doubt be the best bang for buck.
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Im glad I was wrong about the £150 price tag of the 4850, while it is that much sorta with delivery included am glad was wrong since @ £125 its a bargain card get 2 of em and u got a soloution that outpaces the best of Nvidia cards and at a fraction of the cost.
Roll on the Dark horse that is 4870XT
Roll on the Dark horse that is 4870XT
There would be no point as even the 3850 is bottlenecked on all but the extreme AGP rigs.
If you are looking to get this level of card the time really has come to make the PCI-E jump.
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Hello lay-z-boy, thanks very much for your reply. I am extremely impressed that the Corsair HX 520W can run the system you have specified. I always tend to over estimate the power consumption a little bit mainly for safety purposes.
Just a quick question if you don't mind: If someone was building a system very similar to yours, would you actually recommend the Corsair HX 520W power supply unit or would you suggest the Corsair HX 620W model, mianly because it will be someone else running it and not yourself? (I hope you see what I'm getting out)
Thanks.
Hello lay-z-boy, thanks very much for your reply. I am extremely impressed that the Corsair HX 520W can run the system you have specified. I always tend to over estimate the power consumption a little bit mainly for safety purposes.
Just a quick question if you don't mind: If someone was building a system very similar to yours, would you actually recommend the Corsair HX 520W power supply unit or would you suggest the Corsair HX 620W model, mianly because it will be someone else running it and not yourself? (I hope you see what I'm getting out)
Thanks.
I run a similar power requirement rig from a 500w Seasonic without issue, if I was recommending to others I would hit on the 650w Corsair for example, just means you have room to grow into and for the price difference its not a huge leap that it once used to be.
Dunno if you've already seen them but there's quite a few 4870 benchies around if you google. Looking very good - 40%+ quicker than 9800 GTX @ 1920*1200 4xAA/8xAF in a variety of games, even some showing it comfortably quicker than 9800GX2.Damn, i was hoping to read the reviews on Monday.
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4850 supports 8-channel LPCM output over HDMI, but not TrueHD/DTS-HD MA, the only solution to that is if you wait for the new Asus Xonar HDAV1.3 Sound Card which does support HDMI 1.3a
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Links please
What he said. I googled and could only find some very old and completely unverified benchmarks which look more like ATI promo releasses than anything else.
Sorry guys looks like they're mostly old numbers. There is some June 08 ones (http://www.bilgiustam.com/512mb-ati...orce-9800-gx2-crysis-ve-3dmark-2006-testleri/), but thinking about it the 4870 isn't going to beat the GX2 by 20-30%. Excuse my naievety.
Were found fake iirc.
Yep. 45fps in Crysis at 1680x1050 with everything set very high. Smooth.