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4850 "Toxic Edition" ?

Wise Bat

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Anyone thinking of getting this card?

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 "Toxic Edition" 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £152

Will it be worth getting over the

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £131

Just interested me as they are pushing a bit of extra juice out of it. Plus I an't much of a fan of clocking apart from my CPU which is easy.
 
overclocking the GPU is like 1 trillion times easier than overclocking your CPU, and it takes no more than 10 seconds.;

that toxic edition for extra 30 pounds is clocked higher, which prob wont make much diff, but its got the zalman fan, although im not sure about how good it is, i can assume that its far better than the stock cooler, which isnt all too bad, and therefore if your not going to get a after market cooler, than this would be a good choice of 4850, + you should be able to clock it nicely with the lower temps compared to the stock
 
There are currently three 'special' 4850s, 2 with 1GB and one overclocked. All are £152 and all seem to have an enhanced cooler.

Which would be best for standard (1280*1024) gaming?

I was going to get a standard 4850 and an aftermarket cooler but think this is a neater option.

Sorry to hijack/tangent the thread!
 
nands said:
There are currently three 'special' 4850s, 2 with 1GB and one overclocked. All are £152 and all seem to have an enhanced cooler.

Which would be best for standard (1280*1024) gaming?

I was going to get a standard 4850 and an aftermarket cooler but think this is a neater option.

Sorry to hijack/tangent the thread!
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You don't need more than the 512MB for that resolution.
 
Wise Bat said:
Anyone thinking of getting this card?

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 "Toxic Edition" 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £152

Will it be worth getting over the

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £131

Just interested me as they are pushing a bit of extra juice out of it. Plus I an't much of a fan of clocking apart from my CPU which is easy.
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To close to the 4870. Another £18 would get you one.
 
Wise Bat said:
Anyone thinking of getting this card?

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 "Toxic Edition" 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £152

Will it be worth getting over the

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £131

Just interested me as they are pushing a bit of extra juice out of it. Plus I an't much of a fan of clocking apart from my CPU which is easy.
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GPU overclocking isnt really hard. Though the cooler on the Sapphire toxic edition does look good.


nands said:
There are currently three 'special' 4850s, 2 with 1GB and one overclocked. All are £152 and all seem to have an enhanced cooler.

Which would be best for standard (1280*1024) gaming?

I was going to get a standard 4850 and an aftermarket cooler but think this is a neater option.

Sorry to hijack/tangent the thread!
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512MB ram will be fine and the Sapphire toxic edition does look good if you dont mind that its on preorder, otherwise any 4850 will do.
 
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why pay for that when you can buy a stock card and do it better yourself?

buy a pencil, a DMM if you don't have one and some aftermarket cooling.

flash bios and hit 800-850 on core with a couple of pencil strokes and a convervative 1.3v-1.35v under load.
 
marscay said:
why pay for that when you can buy a stock card and do it better yourself?

buy a pencil, a DMM if you don't have one and some aftermarket cooling.

flash bios and hit 800-850 on core with a couple of pencil strokes and a convervative 1.3v-1.35v under load.
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Agreed.

Although depending on the total cost including the aftermarket cooler the 4870 may not be that much more expensive.
 
marscay said:
why pay for that when you can buy a stock card and do it better yourself?

buy a pencil, a DMM if you don't have one and some aftermarket cooling.

flash bios and hit 800-850 on core with a couple of pencil strokes and a convervative 1.3v-1.35v under load.
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As easyrider says, a 4850 1gb plus aftermarket cooler will cost the same as a 4870.

The 4870 doesn't need an aftermarket cooler and will overclock without pencil mods to 800/1100 and even more.

And even without overclocking the 4870 is up to 10% quicker than the 4850 cause of it's gddr5 memory.

Just my two pennies worth.
 
it doesn't need 1GB and i've never seen any aftermarket cooling for the 4850 that costs £60 :p

plus the same can be applied to the 4870, i hate the default coolers on any gfx card i buy because i like to clock them plenty so i would still spend the same for aftermarket cooling on a 4870.

neither card require aftermarket cooling per se but the noise is so terrible on both it's kind of a given if you're going to push them tbh so at the end of the day there's still a ~£60 difference between them but a 4850 will get very close to 4870 performance with a bit of modding.
 
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