!!!IN STOCK ATI 4870!!!

Elrein · 26 Jun 2008 at 07:51

Anyone know the PCI-E version of my mobo, ive been looking and cant seem to find it anywhere

Thanks

mobo in sig

Adsta · 26 Jun 2008 at 08:35

mmm seems a touch pricey considering its not 1gb

Biffa · 26 Jun 2008 at 08:40

Elrein said:
Anyone know the PCI-E version of my mobo, ive been looking and cant seem to find it anywhere

Thanks

mobo in sig

975X is a crossfire chipset isnt it?

2 x v2 16x slots I'd say with 8x bandwidth in each slot if both used together.

Biggest problem would be it appears you can only use single slot gfx cards as the slots are physically very close together, i.e. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-dual-graphics-975x-chipset,1170-4.html

sunderland · 26 Jun 2008 at 09:18

just been looking and there is only the HIS left in the 4870 and was wondering if these are any good as im going to bite the bullit and buy one but dont know if should go for this one or wait for the sapphire ones to come in tomorrow and get saturday delivery what do you think

gurusan · 26 Jun 2008 at 09:19

HIS are great. go for it.

Greebo · 26 Jun 2008 at 09:30

Adsta said:
mmm seems a touch pricey considering its not 1gb

Early days. 4870 512Mb has a list price of $299 and the 4870 1Gb is $329

The 4870 512Mb has a minimum price over here of £180 but I expect not to see them quite as cheap as that, maybe £185-£200 once things settle down. Ocuk have some coming in on Friday at £199

The 1gb version is only $30 more or about £18 mininium therefore once they settle down as well, they ought to be in the £205 to £220 range although probably £230-£250 on launch due to supply and demand.

pompeyboy · 26 Jun 2008 at 09:44

Well just ordered myself crossfired 4870 for tomorrow delivery

Bonjour · 26 Jun 2008 at 09:44

£250 would still be very reasonable to be fair.

kylew · 26 Jun 2008 at 09:48

Bonjour said:
£250 would still be very reasonable to be fair.

Compared to the performance it gives against the GTX280 it is, but compared to the 4850, and the 4870's proper price, it's very expensive. In about a week 4870s will be £180 in a few places, and they'll have stock too.

kylew · 26 Jun 2008 at 09:49

Broken Hope said:
GDDR5 is basically *4 that's all there is to it really.

On another note it seems there is a bios around that fixes powerplay for the 4850's lets hope there is one for the 4870's soon too.

[edit]

This seems to be the MSI bios with fixed powerplay if anyone feels brave enough to try it. It clocks the GPU at 160MHz and the RAM at 500MHz when in 2D mode by the looks of it

http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/16357/MSI.HD4850.512.080605.html

That's pretty interesting actually, is anyone able to flash their cards with an MSI bios yet?

Bonjour · 26 Jun 2008 at 09:50

As we can see, though, demand is very high for these cards.

The market will govern the price to an extent, as we saw with the 8800GTs.

kylew · 26 Jun 2008 at 09:58

Bonjour said:
As we can see, though, demand is very high for these cards.

The market will govern the price to an extent, as we saw with the 8800GTs.

That's true, but there's already listings of the 4850 being £120 and the 4870 being £180.

The powercolor 4850 is already priced at £122. Anyone know if they'll be coming in this Friday?

Greebo · 26 Jun 2008 at 10:17

Prsonally I'm waiting a week or two. Let the 1gb cards come out and all the prices to drop and buy a 1Gb card for the moeny people are paying for a 512Mb today.

I might as well, just for the sake of longevity. You never know if that extra 512Mb might come in handy one day.

Even without price drops, I still think the £20 extra is worth it for the 1Gb version as you get have a more than a £20 variance between 512Mb card prices already.

londonbairn · 26 Jun 2008 at 10:22

Greebo said:
Prsonally I'm waiting a week or two. Let the 1gb cards come out and all the prices to drop and buy a 1Gb card for the moeny people are paying for a 512Mb today.

I might as well, just for the sake of longevity. You never know if that extra 512Mb might come in handy one day.

Even without price drops, I still think the £20 extra is worth it for the 1Gb version as you get have a more than a £20 variance between 512Mb card prices already.

I think the 4870X2 is going to be an interesting card, with this new way the cores communicate. I assume it will thus be a better performer than 4870 CF? Is it similiar to the way the Q6xxx communicate between the 2 dual cores?

Either way, brilliant time to be buying a new GPU, and glad Nvidia have got what they deserve after their boring propoganda.

sunderland · 26 Jun 2008 at 10:33

gurusan said:
HIS are great. go for it.

cheers gurusan m8 will have to sort something out as just sold my 8800gtx for £140 so sitting here on my laptop and i will be missing my COD4 and GRID tonight

Gibbo · 26 Jun 2008 at 10:33

HI there

Another large delivery of HIS just arrived, we now have enough stock to last the weekend.

Defiance_co · 26 Jun 2008 at 10:36

Nice

Ciao

Def

kylew · 26 Jun 2008 at 10:40

Gibbo said:
HI there

Another large delivery of HIS just arrived, we now have enough stock to last the weekend.

Do you know if there will be powercolor 4850s coming tomorrow?

Also, any chance of there being a saturday delivery free upgrade for friday orders?

Yewen · 26 Jun 2008 at 10:43

kylew said:
Do you know if there will be powercolor 4850s coming tomorrow?

Also, any chance of there being a saturday delivery free upgrade for friday orders?

They should be arriving tommorrow but unfortunately we are in the hands of the courriers on if they arrive or not.

Weve done all we can to get them here and have it all setup to deal with it when they arrive, I am sure Gibbo will be chasing this up just a little!

kylew · 26 Jun 2008 at 10:50

Yewen said:
They should be arriving tommorrow but unfortunately we are in the hands of the courriers on if they arrive or not.

Weve done all we can to get them here and have it all setup to deal with it when they arrive, I am sure Gibbo will be chasing this up just a little!

Unreliable couriers! :rolleyes:

Oh well, I hope they do arrive tomorrow I'm getting really tired the X1600XT I've got now