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Asus ATI HD 4890 Super ML CAP / Twin Fan 1024MB GDDR5 Graphics Card Review

aaron333

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So after receiveing the Asus ATI HD 4890 Super ML CAP / Twin Fan 1024MB GDDR5 Graphics Card from a competitor , i am going to review it.

The 4890 is ATI'S current best performing Single GPU card out there. This one has - GPU @ 850MHz - 1024MB GDDR5 Memory @ 3900MHz.

Now let's take a look at the packaging. As with most asus products, it comes in a huge box, packaged very well. Comparing this to the powercolor version, the box is huge.

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With it comes the following:

-DVI To VGA Adapter

-DVI To HDMI Adaptop

-Molex to 8 pin Splitter

-Audio Cables

-Crossfire Bridge

-Quick Setup Guide

-Driver Disc



The card itself is stunning. One of the best looking cards I have seen.


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Just to put it into perpective, here's the beast in the flesh against my old 8400GS it will be replacing:


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Here's the card side on:


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The card is immense. It's housed in a black shell with red fans. I have to say these fans are the most silent I have heard on a graphics card to date. Yet. cooling it more effectively.

The card requires a 8 pin and 6 pin PCI-E cable. Be sure to check that your case is big enough, this only justy squeezes into My Sonata III.



The main feature of this card is the dual fan design, effectively cooling the card. At the moment the card is

ideleing at 37 degrees with fan set to around 70%, which is next to silent. By default the fan was at 15% idling at 47 degrees. Here we can see the

significant tempreature differnce between the standard 4890's and the Super ML CAP / Twin Fan version.There are six 230mm heat pipes on this card.





I currentely haven't had the chance to overclock this thing, but the competitors say in the specification they have managed to get it to 990 MHZ and 4400 MHZ stable.

Here's a graph I have found showing just how much this potential this has for overclocking:
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This card has a year varraty and a voltage tweak system, allowing further overclocks without voiding the warranty.

Here's the Super ML cap:
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Overall, I conclude this card is the one to get if your in the market for a high end card. It clearly outperforms a GTX 275 in benchmarks and costs around the same as the reference designs. This card is quiet and cool and one of the most overclockable to date

Don't hesitate buying this, it's well worth the money.
 
Does the fan work in full auto control?

Can you ear the fan ramping up and down with load?

With Furmark what sort of temps do you get and how noisy is it?

Possibly interested in one of these if it's quiet. :)
 
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Does the fan work in full auto control?

Can you ear the fan ramping up and down with load?

With Furmark what sort of temps do you get and how noisy is it?

Possibly interested in one of these if it's quiet. :)
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Hi there. I haven't really had a chance to play about with it but at idle it was 37 degrees, so under load it should be 10 degrees cooler than the reference design at 100% load. I can't hear the fan. I though I had a bad card when I couldn't hear the fans at 15% (Out of the box) until it put my finger in the fans >.< That hurt BTW. With the fans at 100% load it's loud but I see no reason to want to do so. 70 % fan is fine tbh.

This should hit 950/4200 EASY and minimum.

All I would say is make sure your case is big enough, was a bit of a squeeze tbh.
 
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300% overclocking LMAO.

nice gimik.

dont pay any attention to that bull.

also that card above is also blowing more heat into your case than what refrence jobs do so even though the card might have good temps, inside your case it will be slightly worse.

im running 1000 core 1150 memory on my non Asus ML cap cards.
i have read the reviews and these cards have exactly the same margin for error that all the other cards have, if there going to hit 1000core they will same as the refrence if they are going to they will.

i would like to see you run furmark aswell to see what temps you get after 10 minutes.
and make sure its the stress furmark not the benchmark furmark test.

I get a 72c load under furmark stress.
 
aaron333 said:
Hi there. I haven't really had a chance to play about with it but at idle it was 37 degrees, so under load it should be 10 degrees cooler than the reference design at 100% load. I can't hear the fan. I though I had a bad card when I couldn't hear the fans at 15% (Out of the box) until it put my finger in the fans >.< That hurt BTW. With the fans at 100% load it's loud but I see no reason to want to do so. 70 % fan is fine tbh.

This should hit 950/4200 EASY and minimum.

All I would say is make sure your case is big enough, was a bit of a squeeze tbh.
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I suppose noise is subjective and dependant on your case. I'm silent due to watercooling so a noisy card is a big issue for me.
 
ViRuS2k said:
300% overclocking LMAO.

nice gimik.

dont pay any attention to that bull.

also that card above is also blowing more heat into your case than what refrence jobs do so even though the card might have good temps, inside your case it will be slightly worse.

im running 1000 core 1150 memory on my non Asus ML cap cards.
i have read the reviews and these cards have exactly the same margin for error that all the other cards have, if there going to hit 1000core they will same as the refrence if they are going to they will.

i would like to see you run furmark aswell to see what temps you get after 10 minutes.
and make sure its the stress furmark not the benchmark furmark test.

I get a 72c load under furmark stress.
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Hi there. I chose this card as I will be upping the voltages and knowing it will be covered by the warranty is brilliant. How much was your non asus ml card? I gues you have flashed the BIOS?
 
aaron333 said:
Hi there. I chose this card as I will be upping the voltages and knowing it will be covered by the warranty is brilliant. How much was your non asus ml card? I gues you have flashed the BIOS?
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Yup my cards are modded now so no more use in software ;)
i also added BE Fan Profileing for even better temps.

i bought my cards from OCUK, also there must be a reason why that card you bought is cheaper than the cards i bought.

though thats just nitpicking lol

i still beleave from the reviews i have read about the cards you bought that that ML cap Chip is just 100% gimik to bring newcomers and people not in the knowhow to buy the product.

they see 300% overclocking stickers and go WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW lol
 
ViRuS2k said:
Yup my cards are modded now so no more use in software ;)
i also added BE Fan Profileing for even better temps.

i bought my cards from OCUK, also there must be a reason why that card you bought is cheaper than the cards i bought.

though thats just nitpicking lol

i still beleave from the reviews i have read about the cards you bought that that ML cap Chip is just 100% gimik to bring newcomers and people not in the knowhow to buy the product.

they see 300% overclocking stickers and go WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW lol
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The card I bought is £189.99:s I dont have to flash BIOS at all, just increase voltage and still be in warranty. I didn't buy it from ocuk, elsewhere where they can garuntee stock.

@sxndy. The card out of the box is at 15% fan speed, silent in my books.
 
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its like £20 cheaper form ocuk, hmm might do, the stock is coming in anyway, I m sure they would put up a price and boost it up till the next batch.
 
aaron333 said:
The card I bought is £189.99:s I dont have to flash BIOS at all, just increase voltage and still be in warranty. I didn't buy it from ocuk, elsewhere where they can garuntee stock.

@SXNDY. The card out of the box is at 15% fan speed, silent in my books.
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Flashing my bios`s was my choice, I could have used the software aswell if i wanted as both my cards have * Volltera Ic chips*

and paying £20 over premium, lol + my cards out of the box at stock is 13% fanspeed.
 
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