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    No Larrabee this year

    I'm saddened at having to wait to see it make its debut, but hopefully this will just mean a better product in the end.
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    No buzz about GTX 260?

    That is exactly what I meant, taking the statement alone out of context with the rest of the post, of course it doesn't make any sense. In comparison between the 260 and 4870 though, it makes perfect sense, as the 260's 448 bit bus doesn't net it any memory bandwidth over the 4870's 256 bit bus...
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    No buzz about GTX 260?

    Re:Re: DX10.1: Assassin's Creed was DX10.1, it was patched down to DX10 (they deny it was because it's a TIMTBP game), but one of the advantages people were seeing on DX10.1 was a 20%ish performance increase with AA enabled, so as another point, I wouldn't write off DX10.1 as "minor", and only...
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    No buzz about GTX 260?

    I'm not sure why the 448 and 512 bit memory buses on the 260 and 280 respectively would go under a "pro" column. 868mb of ram? Sure, thats more than 512, add it to the "pros", but the wider bus doesn't actually translate into higher memory bandwidth, so it's not a "pro", it's not really a "con"...
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    ATi 4870 X2 (R700) previews thread

    I know there was talk of some level of GPU to GPU communication possible on the 4870x2, though until a full NDA lift we won't really know how deep this goes or if it actually affects anything.
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    ATi 4870 X2 (R700) previews thread

    Not good.
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    ATi 4870 X2 (R700) previews thread

    I would call it more "Going against the company that seems to have contempt for its customers". I make no attempts to hide my preference for ATi, I just don't like the way nVidia does business, and I don't agree with the path they've taken as far as moving GPU technology forward. I believe their...
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    4870X2 vs GTX280 Poll

    You price products at what people will pay for them, and $169 for Vista Ultimate x64 ain't terrible if you ask me. Sure thats OEM but I'm ok with that. I love linux too, provides a great free alternative, but for what I do, I need Windows, and I don't like to get in on all the "M$" - as it's...
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    4850/4870 and Vsync not working?

    Vsync appears to work fine on my 4850 in BF2142, BF2 I can't verify.
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    who regrets buying a 4850?

    I'm not quite sure how "lucky" this is, same situation for me, except I still have the stock heatsink on my card. I did have to search around a bit to find the profile fix, but I wasn't having a huge heat problem even before that, my idle temps were way too high (80c) but it never really went up...
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    Asus HD4850 $164.99 after $30 MIR on Newegg

    Link
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    Upgrade from x1950 pro?

    I'd wait till the 4850's drop to around $150, or pick one up now if you can find it that cheap, since you game at such a low resolution there's no rush to upgrade, though the 4850 would be a good snag for $150 incase you ever are in a situation where you can take the resolution up a notch or two.
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    HD48xx video + audio output?

    Surprised? Did you not look at any pictures of the card before you bought it? Anyway, the card should have come with a DVI-HDMI converter, the 7.1 sound will still be transmitted over the HDMI through the converter. As far as Mech0z's question I can't really help because I do not know 100% one...
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    4850 folding@home very bad results!!!

    Need a few more exclamation points and question marks before I can fully understand what you're trying to say.
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    FUD: NV to drop GT200 Prices

    I'll still be getting a 4870, but gotta <3 competition
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    4870 now available

    A 500W should be plenty for a single 4870 depending on what else is in your system, but most likely that is more than enough.
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    8800GTS 320mb vs 8800 GT 1gb

    That's probably a good plan - the 4870x2s will be out soon, they will also have 1GB of memory, though it will be 512MB for each core.
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    8800GTS 320mb vs 8800 GT 1gb

    No need for 1GB of video RAM for the near future, the memory bandwidth on 4870 is plenty sufficient for anything out today or will be out for 1-2 years that I know about. If you must have 1GB though, I'm sure in a month or two the board partners will be bringing out 1GB versions of the 4870 as well.
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    From 8800gts 320mb to HD4850

    Waiting a couple of months after a card is released isn't a bad policy, but the 4800 series is already such a huge price/performance winner that even if the prices do settle a little bit in a couple of months, it won't invalidate the deal that they are right now. And with the size and...
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    8800GTS 320mb vs 8800 GT 1gb

    Absolutely imho, especially if you sell the GTS to offset the cost slightly.
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    8800GTS 320mb vs 8800 GT 1gb

    The 4800 series does exceptionally well in CoD4 (and dominates it in Crossfire), guild wars I'm not sure about specifically but I suspect it would be more than enough, it runs Crysis well, the 4870 will do better with Crysis obviously as no single card can yet handle that game at 19x12 at very...
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    (G80) 8800GTS 640 SLI or Different Route?

    The heat of the 4850 is more an issue of bad choices for fan speed, less for any other reason, after simple CCC profile edit, my 4850 idles at 48C (without the new bios, waiting on one from visiontek) and goes to 60C at load, no modding other than a 2 minute edit to a CCC profile. (Setting fan...
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    8800GTS 320mb vs 8800 GT 1gb

    And is easily fixed with a CCC profile ;)
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    ATI 4850 TEMPERATURE discussion

    The file should be named "Optimized.xml" in the folder under your user's tree, the 'Profiles.xml' is the default profile, which isn't used after creating a custom one. The filename is simply whatever you named the custom profile .xml
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    8800GTS 320mb vs 8800 GT 1gb

    See this post: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=265745 The post by user bretware is the one that explains a very easy workaround to bring the 4850 temps down considerably, I used his solution and set my fan speed to 60%, dropped my temps from 80/86 to 48/60.
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    Crossfire 4850 vs Crossfire 4870 at 1280x1024

    +1 One 4850 would suffice as well, if you have anything else you'd like to spend $100 on.
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    ATI 4850 TEMPERATURE discussion

    Try creating a custom profile (just go into the profile manager and save one, name it whatever you like) and then check for that filename.xml under your username's directory tree, it should appear, if you are logged in as that username. You don't have to re-activate custom profiles each time...
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    SuperRV770

    I had my suspicions....
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    4870 now available

    Well, given the fears of availability due to GDDR5, I suppose it could have been worse than a $10 increase.
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    (G80) 8800GTS 640 SLI or Different Route?

    I would recommend the 4870 over 2 GTSs or GTs. And they are out now: Link Get one quick before they are out of stock again ;)
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    (G80) 8800GTS 640 SLI or Different Route?

    It can be OCed to 4870 or near-4870 clock speeds, though it will still be far behind the 4870 in memory bandwidth due to the GDDR3 on the 4850 vs. the GDDR5 on the 4870.
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    4850 Crossfire vs. 8800 GTX KO Superclocked

    Actually, a 4850CF setup costs about $250 less than a single GTX280...
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    ATI 4850 TEMPERATURE discussion

    That is likely the problem, were you unable to find the file in your user's directory structure?
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    ATI 4850 TEMPERATURE discussion

    That is correct.
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    ATI 4850 TEMPERATURE discussion

    Ah ok, thanks, I wasn't trying to seem like I was attacking you or anything, was just curious ;)
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    ATI 4850 TEMPERATURE discussion

    Do you have Overdrive enabled in CCC?
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    ATI 4850 TEMPERATURE discussion

    Copper painted aluminum? Source?
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    ATI 4850 TEMPERATURE discussion

    C:\Users is unique to vista I believe, if you are running XP it would likely be under C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\ etc. etc. Been awhile since I've had to dig through XPs folder structure so someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
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    ATI 4850 TEMPERATURE discussion

    Amazing find - set my fan to 60% using this method, dropped my idle from 80c to 52c, load at around 60-62c