HIS IceQ4 HD 4850

[JPB]

Dual slot cooling.

HD 4850 HIS IceQ4 $214.99

 

[Piano Man]

215?!!!! Booooooooooooooooo.

Isn't this thing like 175 AR at ZZF?

Update. Yep still 177AR at ZZF

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/...9140&prodlist=celebros


Update again. OOS at ZZF. Boooooooo

 

[SSChevy2001]

Originally posted by: Piano Man
215?!!!! Booooooooooooooooo.

Isn't this thing like 175 AR at ZZF?

Update. Yep still 177AR at ZZF

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/...9140&prodlist=celebros


Update again. OOS at ZZF. Boooooooo

For $179.99 you can get the 1GB 4850 instead. Memory bandwidth is the same and the 512, so you should see better performance in memory limited games. Also will go nice with 4850x2 when it comes out.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814102759

 

[Foxery]

/drool
Must resist.

SSChevy2001: The cooler is the appeal here, because the 4850's stock cooling is awful. If you want more RAM, read some reviews to make sure it even has an impact, and buy a 4870 instead of half-assing it

 

[Hauk]

This card will go into my daughter's Christmas rig. Love this thing...

 

[chizow]

At that price a stock 4870 or GTX 260 for $20-30 more looks more attractive. Similar cooling and more card/performance for a few more bucks.

 

[Hauk]

Agreed. It's gotta fall to $169 or so before I'd buy one. It's on the long term radar..

 

[SSChevy2001]

Originally posted by: Foxery
/drool
Must resist.

SSChevy2001: The cooler is the appeal here, because the 4850's stock cooling is awful. If you want more RAM, read some reviews to make sure it even has an impact, and buy a 4870 instead of half-assing it

There are no reviews on the 4850 or 4870 with 1GB. The 2GB 4850 review doesn't count, as it's memory bandwidth was lower than a stock 4850 unlike the 1GB version I posted. Either way I find it funny to buy a card that's going to be vram limited and also can't be paired with a 4850x2 or 4870x2 without sacrificing their 1GB framebuffer. I understand the cooler is the appeal, but memory is still important when the price is that close.

Watch the video in the link.
http://translate.google.es/tra...e&tl=en&hl=es&ie=UTF-8

 

[Chriz]

This card looks nice but it's coming close to the price of a 4870, it is even more than the Sapphire 1 GB 4850. Hopefully it will come down in price, a lot.

 

[postmortemIA]

i don't understand extra cooling if it is reference card. it seems that all reference cards have same fan speed control logic

 

[Foxery]

Originally posted by: SSChevy2001
Watch the video in the link.
http://translate.google.es/tra...e&tl=en&hl=es&ie=UTF-8

Your link appears to only review nVidia cards. ATI ones utilize their RAM a bit differently, hence why 512MB Radeon 4870s do just fine against the GTX260 (896MB) and GTX280 (1GB).

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
i don't understand extra cooling if it is reference card. it seems that all reference cards have same fan speed control logic

Fan speed doesn't help you if the fan itself is a piece of junk.

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: Foxery

Originally posted by: SSChevy2001
Watch the video in the link.
http://translate.google.es/tra...e&tl=en&hl=es&ie=UTF-8

Your link appears to only review nVidia cards. ATI ones utilize their RAM a bit differently, hence why 512MB Radeon 4870s do just fine against the GTX260 (896MB) and GTX280 (1GB).

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
i don't understand extra cooling if it is reference card. it seems that all reference cards have same fan speed control logic

Fan speed doesn't help you if the fan itself is a piece of junk.

what I meant is, this is how my 4870 works:
Fan starts at 0% when you boot up. As temperature rises, fan speed increases. Equilibrium point is 79C and fan speed of 22%. At this point, temp doesn't rise, so fan speed remains the same.

 

[peonyu]

Grab a old Athlon XP / P4 heatsink and drill some holes into it and mount it on your 4850 if you want a cheap and well cooled card...doing that dropped my temps to 50c load for nothing.

 

[bryanW1995]

I could try that with my Q9450 hsf...except that the damn thing is so small it probably wouldn't cool it very well!

 

[peonyu]

I was originally going to use a C2D heatsink, Its probably the same as the one your talking about [small round heatsink with fins protruding from the middle]. Thing is, it was to large to fit on the card, the fins would block the pcie port and prevent ram sinks. And it did look like it would suck at cooling. The c2d stock fan is silent but great cooling though and its on my 4850 atleast. =p

The one I ended up using was a all aluminum, generic as all get hell Athlon XP 2100 heatsink...I was hoping to get a hold of a copper core barton one but alas I had none [that would be overkill].

I cut the end off of the shitty stock 4850 heatsink for VRM cooling and used Geforce 3 ramsinks on the ram.

Overall, ATI gets a huge middle finger from me on thier stock cooling...its utter shit in most systems, and crashes at furmark at stock!!

 

[Insomniator]

Ref cooler works fine for my 4850 after the fan speed fix. 60% all the time, silent, temps 50-65C.

This card is pointless for the price.