A slow moving 12 cm fan as the front of the case pulling air in and the same at the back pushing out will solve internal heat problems without causing much more noise
Hmmmm. Nvidia 275 has higher performance and less power and CUDA/PhysX. Takes two cards in crossfire to beat this - but could add a 2nd Nvidia ard that will once again beat this card hands down with less power.
i have this card, i've had it for a month (the 2gb version)
i like it, pretty decent, not arsed about DX11 (look at the DX10 debacle!)
you can make it sound like a hoover if you go into catalyst and set the manual fan to high.
Oh and the blue LED goes bye bye with a pair of tin snips, however, since my case lights are green, a soldering iron and a green LED were a better idea.
Intel Core i7 I7-920 Quad Core Processor (2.66GHz, 4x256kB, 4.8GT/s QPI, LGA 1336 Socket B)
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core Processor (3.4GHz, 6MB L3 Cache, 4x512KB L2 Cache, 2000 MHz Bus, Socket AM3)
Asus P7P55D Motherboard (Intel Socket H LGA1156, P55 Express, ATX, 16GB DDR3)
Intel Core i5 750 Qaud Core Processor (2.66GHz, 8MB L3 Cache, 2.5 GT/s Bus, Socket H LGA1156)
Asus M4A785TD-V EVO AMD 785G/SB710 Socket AM3 ATX Motherboard
Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 1GB
The Original Ash
Pfff #
Posted Thursday 17th September 2009 10:33 GMT
I get 60 fps out of my 8800gtx at 1920x1200
That card's 3 years old.
bex
on cooling #
Posted Thursday 17th September 2009 10:49 GMT
A slow moving 12 cm fan as the front of the case pulling air in and the same at the back pushing out will solve internal heat problems without causing much more noise
Anonymous Coward
All well and good, but... #
Posted Thursday 17th September 2009 11:20 GMT
ATI need to sort out their drivers. I'm still getting driver failure on a clean build Vista machine with a 4850...
dl
Not bad #
Posted Thursday 17th September 2009 11:40 GMT
Pretty nice, but as you say with the DX11 cards on the way, why not wait?
Even if you don't want a DX11 card their launch should push down the prices of the older cards.
Timothy
The Return of Captain Obvious #
Posted Thursday 17th September 2009 14:47 GMT
Hmmmm. Nvidia 275 has higher performance and less power and CUDA/PhysX. Takes two cards in crossfire to beat this - but could add a 2nd Nvidia ard that will once again beat this card hands down with less power.
Captain Obvious has returned.
b 3
what about the 4850X2? #
Posted Thursday 17th September 2009 14:47 GMT
CONSISTENTLY being named as THE card to get?
quieter cooling is definitly to be appluaded tho..
some cards/pc's sound like hoovers!
cheers,
bill (eupeople.net/forum)
Peter Kay
Looks pretty useless to me #
Posted Thursday 17th September 2009 14:47 GMT
Nice technology, but overpriced. Heating up the interior of the case is not encouraging - the point is to expel the air out of the case.
With the 5850/5870 you'd have to be an idiot to buy a card now. 4870s are going from 100 quid inc VAT too..
Now, if they can produce a Vapor X 5870 with Eyefinity, then I'm seriously interested..
Another Anonymous Coward 1
@AC #
Posted Friday 18th September 2009 00:14 GMT
Yep, ATI drivers still crash Vista when aero is running, it has to be disabled to avoid crashes.
It's the only way, I've had this issue, tried every new driver release and it still isn't fixed.
proletarian
I like it. #
Posted Friday 18th September 2009 03:43 GMT
i have this card, i've had it for a month (the 2gb version)
i like it, pretty decent, not arsed about DX11 (look at the DX10 debacle!)
you can make it sound like a hoover if you go into catalyst and set the manual fan to high.
Oh and the blue LED goes bye bye with a pair of tin snips, however, since my case lights are green, a soldering iron and a green LED were a better idea.