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ATi's 40nm 4770 - info.

Luckily, the xxx xfx 4850 went from this week only of 109 to 139 then to 110, looks like thats its new price!

I will keep an eye on this 4770 but if fundage allows, I reckon I'll dive in for that.

Fingers crossed for no exchange rate calamities.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
I want the 5870X2 already :)

And in response to the above, the 4870X2 price actually went up for months and months because of the exchange rates!
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it really really didn't, it was £330 several places at launch, at it was around £380-500 depending on the model other places around launch, I got mine 1-2 months later at, £330, there have always been cards available at £350 from launch till now and the £330 ish price most of the time too, maybe there was a month or two pre x-mas at the stock markets worst time with the pound at its weakest that the cheapest were £350.

The places that charged up to £500(iirc the gainward several places was around £480-500, asus also stupidly overpriced) but generally say £390-440 for the "normal" brands like sapphire did so the entire time they were out, had absolutely NOTHING to do with the exchange rate frankly.
 
I believe he thinks there won't be any headroom.

I also think that he forgot it is a 40nm part and probably has some of the features of the 1Ghz 4890 monster.
 
dante6491 said:
I believe he thinks there won't be any headroom.

I also think that he forgot it is a 40nm part and probably has some of the features of the 1Ghz 4890 monster.
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Indeed and yes I did take the new chip arch into consideration but am not too excited about it. Seems more of a beta release rather than a new gen imho.

We'll know when we get our hands on them. :D
 
Yeah, we have absolutely no idea how well the 4770 will overclock, it should be pretty good, I'd've thought it'd at least be okay for 850 MHz, being a new, small chip that obviously has access to a lot of power (PCI-E connector), but hardly uses any of it (rated at 5W above the 75W that the PCI-E slot can provide at 80W) and a decent heatsink (like the 3870's but with heatpipes by the looks of it).
 
850 might be pushing it, ATi and Nvidia are said to be unhappy with essentially a complete screw up of 40nm tech at TSMC where its being made. THe reason both companies have altered their plans for the past several months is this 40nm part has been delayed by TSMC rather than the gfx giants. It was schedualled for pre xmas production(the 40nm process, not necessarily what ati/nvidia would do with it) but was a long time in advance pushed back, twice. Its out but apparently VERY leaky and noisy and is really the reason several months ago ATi obviously decided on a slight bump at 55nm rather than a new 40nm part, which judging by the performance available would have been a higher sp/tweaked part.

In other words, don't expect miracles, this isn't the 40nm process everyone expected, how well it will do with a lower end lower power part will have to be seen. it might run low power and decent speed, but with leaky process's the higher the speed the worse the problem becomes.

Hopefully more will release with the cooler in the guru3d review, the silent, better small single slot and efficient zalman type with a real damn fan. Blower fans are just inefficient as hell for this type of cooling. At least they've increased fin size and made it like the better of the blower fans, but a real fan is still better.
 
and that 4850 xxx xfx is pushed down below £100! Now the temptation really is coming in.

What do you reckon, that vs. waiting for this 4770?
 
I'm not really a tinkerer with clocks, I unlocked my x800GTO2 which = good, but messing with the clock speeds led to artifacts in Oblivion so it kinda put me off messing with something I still am not very well versed in. I suppose the xxx is pre-clocked which is nice.
 
Well I think that it may be just a tad behind the 4850 stock vs stock but the newer tech/low power consumption is what would make me choose the 4770.

Also clocking really is quite easy...a shame not to overclock a GPU or CPU. :p
 
Low power consumption is rather tempting me too. My PSU is a 460w Coolermaster, so the less taxing stuff going on the better.

Especially as I was just checking on a 'another places'(!) review of the 4850 xxx xfx thanks to a link from scan, said it was 190w on full load!
 
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