AMD To Launch RV770 On June 18th

[icey_haj]

u will see some increase no doubt but it might be to small to be happy about and u cant crossfire them as u use sli mob i should wait one more week to get 4870 it should even more faster then 4850 and some of them comming with 1 gig of memory which is good if u use big screen and i believe future games will require more graphics memory.

try to sell your gts as soon as possible

i'm putting mine gts in other rig so i will keep mine

If I sell my GTS now, all I have is an X550 to tide me over

 

[Pilky01]

£138 for a HIS 4850 isnt to bad. Get more interesting in a few weeks when we see some upgraded coolers and different pcb's

 

[TheGamingGeneral]

Mmmm, bit pricey, I've pretty much gave up my hope for £199 4870s.......

Martyn

 

[Steedie]

How much faster are Crossfires 4850's compared to a 8800GTX?

Also does Crossfire have the same issues as SLi?

 

[jrodga2k5]

Azza i think u got a bargain mate

 

[Shadez]

so which to get the HIS or the Sapphire?

Whats the warranty on the HIS?

 

[procrastinator]

Will the 4850's work fine in a PCI-E 1.1 slot?

 

[FrostedNipple]

Are these worth the money over an 8800gt?

 

[Shadez]

Are these worth the money over an 8800gt?

if you read the reviews it makes the GT look slow.

 

[tetsuo]

so which to get the HIS or the Sapphire?

Whats the warranty on the HIS?

after looking and doing some searching it seems people are a lot more happy with HIS cards than Sapphire in general or though that may be to do with the fact sapphire probably sell more but i'm yet to find some one have a bad experience with HIS.

 

[Lightnix]

Interesting, the 4870's with GDDR3 in the title all state GDDR5 in the blurb and a memory clock speed that is 'lower' than the 4850's (but presumably that's the physical clock, rather than the 'effective' clock speed, meaning it'd be its supposed 3600MHz GDDR5).

 

[Duff-Man]

if you read the reviews it makes the GT look slow.

But not sufficiently so to bother upgrading, in my opinion.

Check out some benchmarks to see whether it's worth it for you.

 

[Yewen]

Friendly reminder that competitor links will result in nasty nasty things happening to peoples accounts.

 

[Shadez]

after looking and doing some searching it seems people are a lot more happy with HIS cards than Sapphire in general or though that may be to do with the fact sapphire probably sell more but i'm yet to find some one have a bad experience with HIS.

HIS it is then, this will be a nice upgrade from my aging 1900xt

 

[Deluxe1]

Can we expect the 1gb 4870 to be £250?

For me its a tossup between that and the gtx260 whichever comes out on top.

 

[Lightnix]

I could imagine that if AMD's claim of the 4870 being 30% faster than the 4850, the 4870 could certainly be competitive with the GTX260 in a lot of situations, looking at Anandtech's benchmarks. That said the 1GB cards won't be coming until after the 512MB cards apparently, by that time the 4870 512MB will have probably settled to £190 or below.

 

[Owenb]

Can we expect the 1gb 4870 to be £250?

For me its a tossup between that and the gtx260 whichever comes out on top.

£210-220. It will probably be in limited numbers so there might be some price hiking but usually ~70% of the dollar cost=GBP.

 

[Shadez]

what have i done.....

i just clicked the confirm button, now i cant go out tomorrow i have to say in and hope the sh citylink guy can find the place.

 

[TheGamingGeneral]

what have i done.....

i just clicked the confirm button, now i cant go out tomorrow i have to say in and hope the sh citylink guy can find the place.

Buy a kite, fly it over your house with the words ''over here you nub''. Or words to that affect.

Martyn

 

[Scougar]

All I want to know is can the shader clock be independently clocked?

Matthew