Recent content by Warren21

I would honestly enjoy a direct answer to all the pre-hype seen by Keys et al just a few weeks ago until the present. Personal attacks aside, this card can be counted as nothing but a failure from a business perspective. Even as a gamer, one would have to be of questionable intelligence to...

This beta has some confirmed issues with multi-GPU. Examples: ANY CrossFire system will give you water/shadow shimmering (confirmed fixed in retail), MOST SLi systems get terrible performance when running in DX9 (again, fixed in retail). Personally I used to run just one of my 4850's to avoid...

Hello everyone! I find there is no better place to get better input than here on AT, so I bring you my dilemma: You can see my rig in my signature: 4850 512's in CF. I've noticed recently on games like STALKER, BFBC2 (albeit beta) et al that the 512MB frame buffer is starting to get a...

From the limited understanding I have of 3rd-party fab companies, I'm relatively sure ATI, nVidia and other fabless manufacturers pay on a per-wafer basis. Whatever happens to the yields from that wafer are therefore the client's headaches. That's why you see salvaged products like the Radeon...

I'm not too concerned about looks so much as power-to-size ratio, haha. It may be an mATX rig but it's quite fully-featured as far as hardware specs. The W/C is going to be a tight fit, but I've got it all planned out and it should work nicely. As it is, it was hard fitting an AC F7 Pro...

Check out the 5750 in AT's review, it's pretty much exactly what you're looking for. Lower power, quieter, lower heat and competetive performance vs. 4850.

Thanks for the response. My primary concern is indeed gaming. I also enjoy my PC as a media hub for movies and music but priority no. 1 is gaming performance. I play mostly FPS, Racing, RTS and RPGs. To give a little sample: FPS - BF2/2142 (older titles), CoD 4: MW, soon MW2, the...

Hey guys. I'm sitting on a little pile of cash that's itching me to upgrade. I have my eyes set on a CPU-NB W/C loop and a Q9550. My E5200 is a pain in the butt to OC, so I haven't pursued anything over 3.3 for now. With W/Cing I'm hoping for 4.0 and go on a Q9550. W/Cing cost aside...

QFT. The HD 5850 X2 card shown there is said to be most likely a 3rd-party design. Sort of like how Sapphire used to design the prototype BBA boards I guess?

This doesn't make any logical sense. You'd be sad if you 'had' to get a 5xxx card instead of GT3xx-based card because you enjoyed your 8800 GTS 320 so much? What does the 8800's supposed innovation and past price/performance have to do with the relative innovation and price/performance of...

I don't know about you guys, but I built a computer for my brother out of nearly the same parts and it can run CoD 4 @ 1280 x 1024 all maxed, 2x AA at higher than 30 FPS (no visible choppiness). Just like OP: E6600 @ stock, HD 2900 Pro (512-bit mind you) 512MB. I have the 2900 flashed to XT...

Yeah, tell me about it... *cries* I've got a 4850 512 and I've always wanted more juice for 1920 x 1200. 1GB 4870s are about 160 and up, 4890s about 225 and up, GTX 275s about 250 and up. I could also get another 4850 512 for under 100 but I'm hesitant. Thinking I'll try and sell my 4850...

I would try contacting the original purchaser to see if you could get him to RMA it maybe? Have him fax the receipt to you, you ship it, have him do all the phone/contact work? Might have to be shipped to his address (same on the receipt) but if you offer to cover shipping, I'm sure it's still a...

Check out Creig's post above yours. The AT review did a crap job at investigating that the HD 4890 is NOT just an OC'ed RV770. Have you seen RV770s clock to 1 GHz on stock cooling? I don't think so. Check out info about 'RV790' if you want to know more. It's a bigger die, with 959M vs...

To put things into perspective, I had dual 2900 XT 512's in CF. They slot in just above 3870's in terms of speed. I recently replaced both of them with a single 4850 512, and the biggest improvement I saw was minimum framerates. Avg and Max seem about equal, but overall the experience is...