So when will the 1GB 4850's hit the retail market? Already seeing one posted by Asus....

[Jessica69]

Since Asus already has the 1GB 4850 on its website, just wondering if anyone's heard when it'll be available retail?

Asus 4850 w/1GB GDDR3

 

[taltamir]

mmm... google shopping search finds 0 results...

I am guessing later this month. Very nice looking card... And just as I expected, they use the same type of 3rd party cooling that the 8800GT got... Those lower clocked high end cards always end with crap cooling (probably on purpose to prevent overclocking), it causes problems, and then an improved cooling version arrives.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: Jessica69
Since Asus already has the 1GB 4850 on its website, just wondering if anyone's heard when it'll be available retail?

Asus 4850 w/1GB GDDR3

Been out in the UK for a few weeks now,link. (first batch sold out,on pre-order again).

 

[taltamir]

mmm.. take note:
http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=11871

Every ASUS EAH4800 Series graphics card will also soon be equipped with the Glaciator Fansink

So, even the 512MB models will soon ship with the 3rd party cooling instead of that crap single slotter.

Originally posted by: Mem

Originally posted by: Jessica69
Since Asus already has the 1GB 4850 on its website, just wondering if anyone's heard when it'll be available retail?

Asus 4850 w/1GB GDDR3

Been out in the UK for a few weeks now,link. (first batch sold out,on pre-order again).

UK£ 136.99 = 271.774461 US$
OUCH!

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: taltamir
mmm.. take note:
http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=11871

Every ASUS EAH4800 Series graphics card will also soon be equipped with the Glaciator Fansink

So, even the 512MB models will soon ship with the 3rd party cooling instead of that crap single slotter.

Originally posted by: Mem

Originally posted by: Jessica69
Since Asus already has the 1GB 4850 on its website, just wondering if anyone's heard when it'll be available retail?

Asus 4850 w/1GB GDDR3

Been out in the UK for a few weeks now,link. (first batch sold out,on pre-order again).

UK£ 136.99 = 271.774461 US$
OUCH!

I got my Gigabyte 4870 for £172 ,only 12 quid more then the Asus 4850 1GB,better value ,don't forget our tax is 17.5% (Value added tax).

 

[Modular]

Hmm, 1GB is probably overkill but the cooler will be a welcome addition!

 

[s44]

Originally posted by: taltamir
mmm.. take note:
http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=11871

Every ASUS EAH4800 Series graphics card will also soon be equipped with the Glaciator Fansink

So, even the 512MB models will soon ship with the 3rd party cooling instead of that crap single slotter.

Awesome. Best to wait, then, I think.

 

[The Odorous One]

Nice to see no sinks needed for the VRM's or memory. This card must run cooler than other 4850's

 

[Qbah]

Yeah, I think 1GB is a bit overkill for a 4850. I'm guessing this batch will sell out very fast, mostly due to the improved cooler. The 4850 isn't powerful enough to play smoothly on those super high resolutions with tons of AA, so 512MB is plenty.

 

[blackangst1]

I dunno. 1 gig is pretty much...useless. We would see better net results from a wider bus, IMHO.

 

[taltamir]

it will be plenty useful to anyone playing oblivion with the ultra texture mod... 700+ (i think it was 790) MB of vram used!

But since I don't... and can do without uber ultimate texture packs... well I still like the idea of 1GB of ram just because I am paranoid about ram and like things over engineered... but I wouldn't pay much for it.

 

[palladium]

I think 1GB on a 4870 will make more sense than having 1GB on a 4850. The 4870 performs at the level of GT260, with similar memory bandwidth, but the GT260 has 896MB of RAM while 4870 only has 512.

 

[taltamir]

but 1GB of GDDR5? more expensive...

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: blackangst1
I dunno. 1 gig is pretty much...useless. We would see better net results from a wider bus, IMHO.

Right, but its far cheaper just to double up the memory

This is only going to be good for niche applications though (Oblivion texture mod like was previously mentioned), not much better than seeing 1GB (or even 512MB) on a real budget card that's really only good for 2D.

Otherwise yeah, the 4870 is the one that needs to see a bump to 1GB before the 4850 does seeing as how that should really help on the 30" LCDs.

Although even that niche is pretty small, however its far larger than one that could really use a 1GB 4850.