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4850 What A Stonking Card!!

Is that in UFO case marscay?

Which cards do you have btw (manufacturer?) as I just been given some updated BIOS's for Sapphire cards. Haven't flashed the HD4850 here yet as I'm still evaluating the stock performance.

2-3 days and everything seems fine with the stock cooling . . . yes the cards run hot averaging between 75°C >> 85°C with stock BIOS but nothing has crashed or glitched etc nor has my case ambient risen from before when using a cooler running 8800GT.
 
burning the midnight oil with yer 4850 also wayne? ;)

yep in the UFO, it's been awhile since i had a card with single slot cooling ...always been water or double slot exhaust.

i've got the powecolor cards - looking on techpowerup now to flash my cards, just waiting on some ramsinks to arrive in the morning before i fit the S1 coz those S1 sinks are pap. :p
 
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burning the midnight oil with yer 4850 also wayne? ;)

yep in the UFO, it's been awhile since i had a card with single slot cooling ...always been water or double slot exhaust.

i've got the powecolor cards - looking on techpowerup now to flash my cards, just waiting on some ramsinks to arrive in the morning before i fit the S1 coz those S1 sinks are pap. :p
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I put a 120mm + 80mm, low rpm fans on and I get idle temps of 36C with ambient of ~25C.

With the msi bios which has lower powerplay clocks I get an idle temp of 35C and same ambient.

Clocked to 730/1075 1.21v, I get load temps of 52C using Furmark (under 50 with everything else). And best of all its all near silent. :)

The S1 is a great cooler.
 
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yep i expect great things of the S1, will throw a yate loon onto them.

so you have to disable overdrive with that edited MSI bios yah? and edit it for the 1.2v with RBE?

gpu bios editing is new territory for me although flashing isn't :p
 
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marscay said:
burning the midnight oil with yer 4850 also wayne? ;)
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Yee Hawww! :cool:

marscay said:
waiting on some ramsinks to arrive in the morning before i fit the S1 coz those S1 sinks are pap. :p
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I think they are good enough for the task in hand, especially if your using a fan with the S1.

Of course if you want to spend money for not a lot of gain then be my guest! :p

marscay said:
yep i expect great things of the S1, will throw a yate loon onto them
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It's surprisingly good and surprisingly cheap!

marscay said:
gpu bios editing is new territory for me although flashing isn't :p
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seek out the man named gurusan
 
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darudeuk said:
Next thing you'll know people will start saying

AMD >> INTEL

Pft!
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Not at the moment but who knows what will be in 2-3months...

At the end of the day the competition only does good for us - customers, giving us cheaper and BETTER quality products.
I personally hope for AMD to strike back just as ATI did now.
 
So if I have this right...

4850 ->> All 8 series cards and maybe 9600 too......
4870 -->> All 9 series cards and GTX 260..?
 
Isn't the GTX 280 top dog...soo....

1. GTX280
2. GTX260
3.9800GX2
4. 4870
5. 4850
6. 9800GTX

Or have I got it all wrong? :D
 
marscay said:
i've got the powecolor cards - looking on techpowerup now to flash my cards, just waiting on some ramsinks to arrive in the morning before i fit the S1 coz those S1 sinks are pap. :p
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Big.Wayne said:
Yee Hawww! :cool:

I think they are good enough for the task in hand, especially if your using a fan with the S1.

Of course if you want to spend money for not a lot of gain then be my guest! :p
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i'm not buying the rip off enzotechs or other expensive copper variety that fall off unless bonded :D

needed more sinks for the VRM area anyway plus even the cheapy aluminium zalmans would do a better job than the ones on the S1, i like to do a good job ;):p
 
From all I'm reading it's the VRM's that need attention more than the GPU on the HD4850's, reckon some half decent heatisinks combined with a bit of gentle airflow should do the trick..
 
Big.Wayne said:
From all I'm reading it's the VRM's that need attention more than the GPU on the HD4850's, reckon some half decent heatisinks combined with a bit of gentle airflow should do the trick..
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yep especially if you want to clock the card - check the temps through gpu-z ...the vrm's heat up a lot.

this is why 3dmark is redundant - i got about the same with my 3870's lol

 
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