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Sapphire HD 4890 Atomic

VenomousDesigns

VenomousDesigns

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I would love to know if anyone knows/has access to the purchase of the recently announced/released Sapphire Atomic HD4890's - reviews have been popping up all round the internet, and Newegg has been out of stock since 20th May.

I currently reside in Australia and am quite eager to purchase this little beauty - will be willing to ship in from overseas, I heard stocks are very limited and would greatly appricate someone pointing me in the right direction.

- VD
 
I did indeed search - the website is generic, links to out of date resellers which I have contacted them all by E-Mail, hope one can reply soon enough.

Any other options for purchasing internationally - Newegg won't ship to Australia.
 
VenomousDesigns said:
I would love to know if anyone knows/has access to the purchase of the recently announced/released Sapphire Atomic HD4890's
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Didn't hear about that one myself, I thought the HD4890 Vapor-X was the one to watch? :D

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as i said before in other post atomic is limited edition it will come in steel case and each atomic are numbered.

probably will cost around 250 to 270 £

so probably will be hard to get
 
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Didn't hear about that one myself, I thought the HD4890 Vapor-X was the one to watch? :D

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Vapor-x is clocked a lot lower than Atomic edition.

Atomic edition is clocked at 1ghz using stock volts of 1.3125v. Considering that I havent seen anyone hit 1ghz without a voltage increase on the initial round of cards, these wre very well binned.
 
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Ok I see it now! :)




Hmm It's not clear what the difference is between the two? . . . the Standard (non Toxic) Vapor-X HD4890 seems to have a better I/O panel :confused:


 
Big.Wayne said:
Ok I see it now! :)

Hmm It's not clear what the difference is between the two? . . . the Standard (non Toxic) Vapor-X HD4890 seems to have a better I/O panel :confused:
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Isn't the Atomic normally factory overclocked, whereas the Toxic just has the quiet cooler?

EDIT: Ah, Fudzilla has the answer:

"The HD 4890 Toxic Edition uses Vapor-X cooling in combination with heatpipes and has a slightly higher core clock set at 960MHz. The HD 4890 Vapor-X does have a lower 870MHz core clock, and does not combine Vapor-X cooling with heatpipes, but comes with Black Diamond Choke design and on-board DisplayPort and HDMI outputs."
 
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Hanners@Elite ******** said:
The higher clocked memory on-board the Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X seems to make it a little more intensive in terms of power usage than a reference card, although its general numbers are as you'd expect from a board of this ilk, with idle power consumption of around 185 Watts increasing to a little under 300 Watts under load.
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Ok now I remember why I've been avoiding these big GPUs! :D

I've mellowed a bit with regard to *peak* power consumption, its rendering and doing its magic fair enough but 185w idle is carp! :(
 
there is another one 4890 toxic with 960 mhz core looks same as atomic probably do more then 1ghz as atomic but just not cheery picked as the atomic are.

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so theres 3 new 4890 from sapphire

4890 atomic 1ghz
4890 toxic 960 mhz probably same card as atomic
4890 Vapor-X 870mhz
 
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the toxic is only mildy overclocked ? the atmic range is normally the fastest HD whater it is on the market ?
 
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