UK's LOWEST PRICE - Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 GFX Card - £144.99 +VAT

Yewen · 29 Jan 2009 at 12:26

ev0styLe said:
92 at load

Its fine, I stopped the fan and the card went to 104 and didnt artifact under Furmark.

Furmark can kill cards, the GTX 280 between 2x 295 this week proves this.

Jakus · 29 Jan 2009 at 12:40

Yewen said:
Its fine, I stopped the fan and the card went to 104 and didnt artifact under Furmark.

Furmark can kill cards, the GTX 280 between 2x 295 this week proves this.

The Fans not Much good if it only drops 12C when running.......LOL, Chose You words carefully My friend quite a few people around here will not understand correctly that You have posted figures for a Torture/stability Test, not typical gaming loads

Yewen · 29 Jan 2009 at 12:47

JAKUS said:
The Fans not Much good if it only drops 12C when running.......LOL, Chose You words carefully My friend quite a few people around here will not understand correctly that You have posted figures for a Torture/stability Test, not typical gaming loads

Your not reading me correctly either, the fan was not running at full speed hence it only going up by 12deg. As I said if you set a more aggressive fan profile you could keep the card much cooler.

If the card is stable and under warranty, who cares!

Matty_Boy · 29 Jan 2009 at 12:55

I have one of these cards in my HTPC - apart from a few probs with 8.12 drivers, the card is superb!

Emlyn_Dewar · 29 Jan 2009 at 13:05

Curses! If only I had the spare pennies lying around, would love a bit of crossfire.

SKILL · 29 Jan 2009 at 13:12

Mine's just been shipped \o/ hopefully get here tomorrow, gotta spend saturday moving my mates stuff to a new house though so won't be able to get to play till sunday, but play I shall

simbady · 29 Jan 2009 at 13:39

If you had two would it keep the temps down therefore be quiter since there isnt as much stress on each GPU .. or does it not really work like that?

krooton · 29 Jan 2009 at 13:49

simbady said:
If you had two would it keep the temps down therefore be quiter since there isnt as much stress on each GPU .. or does it not really work like that?

Nope, Xfiring them will not make both run cooler.

simbady · 29 Jan 2009 at 13:52

Thats a shame

rymz · 29 Jan 2009 at 14:03

Rekon it's a worthy upgrade over a X1950XTX? w/ a standard E6600? Playing; CoD2/4, WoW, Mirror's Edge, Quake... @ 1680*1050

rymz

magicroundabout · 29 Jan 2009 at 14:17

Yewen said:
Its fine, I stopped the fan and the card went to 104 and didnt artifact under Furmark.

Furmark can kill cards, the GTX 280 between 2x 295 this week proves this.

i've the 512 version of this card and was cecking my temps the otherday and after 2 hours of solid MOH Airborne playing my temps were at the high 50's with fan speed running @ 40%.

how come yours reaches almost 100deg

liquidex · 29 Jan 2009 at 14:19

He stopped the fan.

Thats a great price and its really tempting even though I have the 512mb version...

Meaker · 29 Jan 2009 at 14:20

simbady said:
Thats a shame

You could lower the volts and clocks of each card below stock lol. Also the second card will not be under as much load as the second.

krooton · 29 Jan 2009 at 14:34

rymz said:
Rekon it's a worthy upgrade over a X1950XTX? w/ a standard E6600? Playing; CoD2/4, WoW, Mirror's Edge, Quake... @ 1680*1050

rymz

A VERY sizeable jump actually.

magicroundabout · 29 Jan 2009 at 14:38

liquidex said:
He stopped the fan.

Thats a great price and its really tempting even though I have the 512mb version...

Yewen said:
Ok guys, quick test using Furmark.

HIS standard card = Idle 72 while quite noticeable, 77 under load making a noise
Sapphire aftermarket cooler = Idle 40 silent, 92 load while at the same noise level as the HIS. (I recon if you did a custom fan profile and set the card to high fan speed you could keep the temp down)

The actual temperature of the card does not really matter that much, but both are well within safe limits.

I would take the Sapphire out of the two cards without a shadow of a doubt, so much quieter at idle.

i keep my fan on 40% and i've never gone anywhere near 90deg

Yewen · 29 Jan 2009 at 15:09

magicroundabout said:
i've the 512 version of this card and was cecking my temps the otherday and after 2 hours of solid MOH Airborne playing my temps were at the high 50's with fan speed running @ 40%.

how come yours reaches almost 100deg

I am running furmark with no driver throttling, this program WILL kill graphics cards if you want it to.

liquidex said:
He stopped the fan.

Thats a great price and its really tempting even though I have the 512mb version...

Yup, that makes a difference when the program in question is locked out of the Catalyst Driver for a reason.

magicroundabout said:
i keep my fan on 40% and i've never gone anywhere near 90deg

Your fan is running, it makes a massive difference and you are also not stressing your card to anywhere near the same levels.

Furmark in a minute will stress the card further than an overnight Crysis session will.

rymz · 29 Jan 2009 at 15:09

krooton said:
A VERY sizeable jump actually.

Good to know. 'Am seriously thinking of buying it soon.

magicroundabout · 29 Jan 2009 at 15:12

Yewen said:
Furmark in a minute will stress the card further than an overnight Crysis session will.

furrymuff

tindale · 29 Jan 2009 at 15:13

there's goes this month's pay already :rolleyes:

now to go and sell the 512mb one thats sat in my rig. Goddamn GTA IV, grumble grumble, moan moan............

carrot1401 · 29 Jan 2009 at 16:35

Seriously tempted to grab one, got a 4850 with Vortexx here.....but I want to get rid of the fancy blue led rubbish