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*** Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 2048MB @ £190.99 inc VAT IN STOCK NOW ***

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*** *** Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 2048MB @ £190.99 inc VAT IN STOCK NOW *** ***


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The SAPPHIRE HD 4890 Vapor-X 2GB model is a SAPPHIRE original design. It has SAPPHIRE’s Vapor-X cooling module on the GPU together with a heatsink and profiled fan venting heat out of the case. With core clock speed of 870MHz and 2GB of DDR5 memory clocked at 1050MHz, this model not only has additional memory but is also quieter and significantly faster than competing products based on the standard reference design. The larger memory size and faster speeds deliver higher performance in rendering tasks and increased frame rates in games - especially at high resolutions and where complex textures are used.

- ATI Radeon HD 4890 GPU @ 870MHz
- 2048MB GDDR5 Memory @ 4200MHz
- 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
- PCI Express 2.0 support
- ATI CrossFireX Multi-GPU Technology
- Microsoft DirectX 10.1 support
- Shader Model 4.1
- ATI Avivo HD video and display technology
- Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD) for Blu-ray and HD Video
- Built-in HDMI with 5.1 surround sound support
- On-chip HDCP
- 2 Year Warranty

Only £190.99 inc VAT
ORDER NOW
 
Noice.


If you would let me return my unopened GTX 285 OC2 to you, i'll buy your GTX 295 evga card that is screaming at me to be purchased :D
 
What you guys been smoking.

the price is a rip off.

4890 for £145 average. £190 for this and all thats diffrent is 1gig memory
look at the price per gig of memory you can get for motherboards and compare it to that + you would only need this much memory at 1920x1200 ++++ resolutions to see a diffrence, good price though for people that dont know much. .
 
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ViRuS2k said:
What you guys been smoking.

the price is a rip off.

4890 for £145 average. £190 for this and all thats diffrent is 1gig memory
look at the price per gig of memory you can get for motherboards and compare it to that + you would only need this much memory at 1920x1200 ++++ resolutions to see a diffrence, good price though for people that dont know much. .
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wtf?

The difference is the high clocks, the non reference cooler (the normal cooler imo has stopped this card from being an absolute sellout, the fact that people DO game at 1920x1200+.

Its a nice card at a nice price. £190 is hardly going to break a bank, and if you are worried about paying £190 for a premium item...........
 
Would I see a mass increase from a
1GB HD4850 powercolor
to this.

I game @ 1920 x 1080p and try to play highest all the time.
 
bifday2k said:
Looks like ur one of those people then.

AS memory on motherboards is either ddr2/ddr3, so £45 more for 1GB more of DDR5 dos'nt sound to bad to me.
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you actually have no idea what so ever, GDDR5 is cheaper to produce than DDR3 and DDR2 so better do some research..
 
I have 2 sapphire HD4850's ddr3 1gb at the moment, would people say that I can get away with just this or if I had crossfire with one of the 4850's would it work any better?
 
I haven't had any problems with mine other than temps but this would work so well for gta4 :)

I'm getting sick of waiting for dx 11 :'(
 
ViRuS2k said:
you actually have no idea what so ever, GDDR5 is cheaper to produce than DDR3 and DDR2 so better do some research..
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Uh, no it isn't.

And I think you might find the PCB of this card, instead of just using "MOAR CHIPZ", has larger capacity memory chips instead, which costs more than simply double the amount of smaller chips. I'm not sure whether that specifically costs £30 extra, but I'm sure somebody will pay it.
 
D D Danneh said:
Uh, no it isn't.

And I think you might find the PCB of this card, instead of just using "MOAR CHIPZ", has larger capacity memory chips instead, which costs more than simply double the amount of smaller chips. I'm not sure whether that specifically costs £30 extra, but I'm sure somebody will pay it.
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surely to know its more expensive would imply you know how much it costs in the first place?
 
james.miller said:
surely to know its more expensive would imply you know how much it costs in the first place?
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I'm pretty sure if GDDR5 was cheaper than DDR3, we'd be seeing it in modules for our motherboards. Lower voltage, better performance, what's the downside? There has to be one, so I'm assuming it's cost.

If it was less expensive than DDR3, we'd probably see a lot more 2GB cards. For the sake of about £5, I'd wager that the additional 1GB would be worth it.
 
I guess ati can't do wrong. Not long ago 8800 gt versions with 1gig memory were coming out, people jump on them as use less and not worth the extra money for the extra memory. Is it any different with the 4890?
 
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