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Asus Ati HD4850...anyone familiar with this particular card?

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Hi all,

I have just got hold of the above card in replacement for my Gigabyte 3850, according to Ati Catalyst control centre and GPU-z my old 3850 was idleing between 32 and 38 degrees and full load under furmark and other test programs show temps of not more than 60 degrees.

I have now put the 4850 in its place and the same programs show idle temps of 46-51 degrees and full load temps of 78-84 degrees.

I have read a lot about this card running hot, but i expected better temps than this...especially as it shipped with the glacier cooler and not the piddly little fan that was shown in the product description.

Another thing is that i didnt really see any kind of performance boost in gaming etc (system specs below).

Microsoft XP
GA-P35-DS3R
4GB Geil 6400 RAM
Intel E2200 (Lapped and OC'd to 3Ghz)
TRUE Black edition (Lapped)

19" ACER monitor (so not very demanding resolution wise)

Plenty of cooling in the case and everything else temp wise seems absolutely fine.

Thanks in advance for your help/thoughts
 
Get rivatuner and do your own fan profile the fan speeds on the 4 series are set to low. The 4850 is nearly twice as fast as the 3850 but as you mention your resolution is not really demanding so real life performance may seem the same. What games do you play? Do you max the in game settings and apply aa as the 4850 should leave the 3850 behind when aa is applied .
 
I dont think that i need Rivatuner...i set fan speed to 75% manually using CCC.

The games i play are World of warcraft (Settings on medium, shaders etc turned down, AA off and get about 120 FPS in normal play, about 50 FPS in cities etc)

Bioshock (again settings are not maxed and AA turned off)

Trackmania nations ( settings not maxed either)

In fact come to think of it, i have all CCC settings turned to "performance" and all AA features etc turned off.

I should also mention that i have tried all versions of the Ati drivers from 8.6 upwards and always scrub the drivers using driver cleaner.
 
Well you may not be noticing any performance in games as at the settings you are using your old HD3850 was probably offering playable framerates anyway therefore your HD4850 will offer the same playable framerates albeit the framerate counter will be higher.
(In simple terms the HD3850 may have been managing 60 average whilst the HD4850 is managing 90 average, both are playable)

Try ramping up the settings on your games and see if the perceptable gaming experience stays the same.
 
Ive got this card (its the one with the dual high cooler that looks like a intel one?)

ive just run the crysis (x64) bench on mine with high settings and 2xAA and got

Test 1 32.27fps
Test 2 47.44
Test 3 47.77
Test 4 48.07

which im quite happy with i dont have a oc on the card at the min but ive got 2gb of the ram u have and an e8400 running server 08 x64

8.11 drivers

hope thats helpful for you.

those temps are normal too these cards do run hot
 
the temps are fine for these cards, no need to up the fan speed really.

as for performance, it depends what res your gaming at,, the lower the res it is the more cpu bottlenecking it is. also u need to up the game settings so the card gets more work to do instead of your cpu.
 
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