Had this in the a week now, upgrade from an 8600GT. Marked improvement as one would expect but damn, this thing is (was) way too hot for my liking. COD4 with absolutely everything maxed out played absolutely superb, but yielded a core temp of 103°C, yes y`all heard right 
Now, I bought a passively cooled gpu as my 8600GT (also a Gigabyte) had the Silent Pipe 2 set up and it was always cool, MB temp stayed under 35°C at all times but I`m quite astonished at how crap this array is on this particular 4850. Maybe it needs reseating, but in the meantime (and kinda defeating the object of a passive array) I stuck (actually blu-tacked it on!!) an 80mm fan directly over the fins as central to the chip as I could. Hehe, temps down to 63°C under severe load so I`ll ditch the array and get a decent cooler ... any suggestions as to what as always welcome
Main thing though, same set-up ([email protected], 4Gb Geil PC2 6400 @940) upped my 3DMark 06 up from just under 6K to 12444K so that`s double in anyone's money
I am deffo gonna CF this at some stage but probably not until future games start to lag. Crysis at high settings (I tried v.high for daftness, quite playable until there`s loads going on then there`s a deff slowdown) with 8x AF 1680 x 1050 is good in anyone`s book I reckon
1st ATI card I ever owned, cool

Now, I bought a passively cooled gpu as my 8600GT (also a Gigabyte) had the Silent Pipe 2 set up and it was always cool, MB temp stayed under 35°C at all times but I`m quite astonished at how crap this array is on this particular 4850. Maybe it needs reseating, but in the meantime (and kinda defeating the object of a passive array) I stuck (actually blu-tacked it on!!) an 80mm fan directly over the fins as central to the chip as I could. Hehe, temps down to 63°C under severe load so I`ll ditch the array and get a decent cooler ... any suggestions as to what as always welcome

Main thing though, same set-up ([email protected], 4Gb Geil PC2 6400 @940) upped my 3DMark 06 up from just under 6K to 12444K so that`s double in anyone's money

I am deffo gonna CF this at some stage but probably not until future games start to lag. Crysis at high settings (I tried v.high for daftness, quite playable until there`s loads going on then there`s a deff slowdown) with 8x AF 1680 x 1050 is good in anyone`s book I reckon

1st ATI card I ever owned, cool

