Radeon's 4890 dose any one know anything about it?

[Lord Sindore]

I've just bin looking at the new 4890 series gpus and am thing of getting the XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 XT 1024MB, does anyone have any feed back about it or ever some info about it?

I have Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi psu and won't to know if this will work with the XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 XT 1024MB graphics card?

 

[RJC]

Have a look in the Graphic forum, there are a few threads there with reviews.

The Corsair PSU will be fine

 

[95thrifles]

yes your PSU will work, for info I suggest you check out the thread in the gfx card section

 

[Lord Sindore]

will my psu run two of the 4890 cards?

 

[TheRedZealot]

It may run two but i think it would be cutting it close.

 

[KingZeddy]

..............and why do you need 2?

 

[Lord Sindore]

I hope it dose be cos I only just got it about a mouth a go, if not I'll wip it out and use it to build a PC for my dad. LOL!

 

[Lord Sindore]

Be cos I will be using it to make games so I need a lot of graphic power

 

[95thrifles]

doubt it'll run 2 tbh, you'd need circa 800W

 

[Lord Sindore]

it does have to connectors for gpu but I think you could be right, dose any one know what wattage/voltage the 4890s need?

 

[AMG]

I think I may be wrong thath te HD4890 has a lower power consumsion than a stock HD4870.

while i was buying mine I learnt that if it has 12volts rails look for once that give at least 18amps down each lane as a min for a single look for one in the 60s-70amps

I tried to powermy xfire system on my old trusty thermaltake 700watt tough power and it wouldn't boot with the second card in.

 

[kevy1986]

I got the xfx 4890 last weekend. It's a pretty good card. I wouldn't recommend paying more for the overclocked versions. I just have normal and it's running at 900 core and 1100 ram without any problems. Hope that helps

 

[Lord Sindore]

ok thanks, that will save some money

 

[Lord Sindore]

is the xfx 4890 any better then the xfx 4870? has any one run prime95 or 3dmark on it yet?

 

[explicit4u]

is the xfx 4890 any better then the xfx 4870? has any one run prime95 or 3dmark on it yet?

yes it is better then the 4870, not by a lot but it is, performance is usually 10% or higher compared to the 4870, also the 4890 is meant to run cooler.