Hi,
Recently I ordered a HIS ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail.
I was disappointed (but not surprised) when the card itself did not look anything like the picture on the OCuk website. That's fine... i'm sure it says somewhere that the images aren't accurate... but something else made me a little nervous.
The box itself was totally unsealed. There was no tape over the ends of the cardboard, or holding the plastic packaging together. If it's just a 4850 that's been returned, fine... it works fine, i've had it in my system for a couple of days now. I looked on the OCuk website, and turns out that the 4850 i have looks identical to the 4830 that they sell. So i looked on the HIS website. [http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product1.php?57&p=2] The product that I hope I have is a HIS HD 4850 Fan 512MB (256bit) GDDR3 PCIe (not the silent one as shown by OCuk but that's fine) however, you can see from the link that the 4830 is in fact identical. The difference is in the clock speed.
As far as i can tell, there's nothing to stop someone buying a 4830 and a 4850 from OCuk, returning the 4830 in the wrong box and saving themselves £20. As a result, I'd have been given a cheaper model for the same price. Now i'm not suggesting that OCuk would have resold something intentionally, i'm not questioning their integrity at all.. but generally people can be pretty sneaky, and if you were to do this five times and then sell on the 4850s, you'd have made yourself £100...
Is there any way to check that the card I have is actually a 4850 and not a 4830?
I put the serial number into the HIS website, but it doesn't know which product it is.
I looked on board but couldn't see an identifier.
I looked at the drivers but they're just generic 4800 series drivers.
If the box had been sealed it would never have crossed my mind that it could be wrong, but something just didn't seem quite right, and I'd like to confirm.
Thanks,
Paul
PS. Before someone says, "well they're the same chipset so just clock yours faster if it's wrong"... that's really not the point.
Recently I ordered a HIS ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail.
I was disappointed (but not surprised) when the card itself did not look anything like the picture on the OCuk website. That's fine... i'm sure it says somewhere that the images aren't accurate... but something else made me a little nervous.
The box itself was totally unsealed. There was no tape over the ends of the cardboard, or holding the plastic packaging together. If it's just a 4850 that's been returned, fine... it works fine, i've had it in my system for a couple of days now. I looked on the OCuk website, and turns out that the 4850 i have looks identical to the 4830 that they sell. So i looked on the HIS website. [http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product1.php?57&p=2] The product that I hope I have is a HIS HD 4850 Fan 512MB (256bit) GDDR3 PCIe (not the silent one as shown by OCuk but that's fine) however, you can see from the link that the 4830 is in fact identical. The difference is in the clock speed.
As far as i can tell, there's nothing to stop someone buying a 4830 and a 4850 from OCuk, returning the 4830 in the wrong box and saving themselves £20. As a result, I'd have been given a cheaper model for the same price. Now i'm not suggesting that OCuk would have resold something intentionally, i'm not questioning their integrity at all.. but generally people can be pretty sneaky, and if you were to do this five times and then sell on the 4850s, you'd have made yourself £100...
Is there any way to check that the card I have is actually a 4850 and not a 4830?
I put the serial number into the HIS website, but it doesn't know which product it is.
I looked on board but couldn't see an identifier.
I looked at the drivers but they're just generic 4800 series drivers.
If the box had been sealed it would never have crossed my mind that it could be wrong, but something just didn't seem quite right, and I'd like to confirm.
Thanks,
Paul
PS. Before someone says, "well they're the same chipset so just clock yours faster if it's wrong"... that's really not the point.
