Nice personal attack you got there.
Which is simply not true and I speak as a 4850 X2 2GB owner, unlike you as I recall, correct?
Nice personal attack you got there.
Which is simply not true and I speak as a 4850 X2 2GB owner, unlike you as I recall, correct?
i had a diamond 3870x2 and loved it, bought the card in signature because the fan started going on it to hold me over till i could get another card down the road. which after reading this thread will be a 4850x2 i linked too
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I have never started anything with you so stop playing the victim. you pull out this passive aggressive bs in many threads and thats your way of attempting to insult others. its ridiculous and I am sick of it. now you drag some crap form another thread in here and flat out lie by calling it a rumor just so you can once again try to appear superior. why dont you try replying without being a jerk for once.
now back on topic. I was making a general statement that the 4890 would be less trouble than the 4850x2 or any dual gpu card. almost every single person knows that there are potentially more probs when dealing with multi gpu setups. as for as the 4850x2 specifically I know their were plenty of driver issues when the card first came out and most reviewers mentioned that the card was VERY noisy. I do believe there was a revised version released that was much quieter though. also he still hasnt said if this is a 1gb or 2gb card.
Good call... would you be interested in a used one by any chance...?
I remember when ~1 ago more than one review noted that for its price (it was hovering around $300 after rebate) this is the best gem on the market.
happy medium
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hclarkjr, Mabe you should hold off a bit. A 5830 is about to be released and if it gives 4890/gtx285 like performance like advertised it would be the perfect 230$ card. A 4850x2 is not much faster then a gtx 285/4890 anyway.
:thumbsup:5830 for much less heat, way less power draw,better feature set, and a single card solution.
ANd the adhoms just keep coming...
One has to love the power of cliches - thanks for confirming you have no experience with this card whatsoever.
Ah, a strawman argument + moving goalpost in one sentence... nice!
It's loud when it's on full load for a long time and you have a warm room anyway - but it clearly depends on one's environment. My home office is in the back, it has no heating other than opening a door to the rest of the house and I barely noticed the noise.
OTOH I run on water for several years now and I notice every noise - my machine is literally silent sans the VGA card (since my old X1900XT didn't bother anymore spending $100 or more on blocks every 112-18 months.)
It's a 4850 X2 2GB and it not much after the 1GB version - but I don't think anyone ever seriously considered the 1GB version for only ~$30 less...
PS: do you realize that we are talking about a dual-GPU monster card the OP is considering[/b] and you are arguing about rather getting a single-GPU, slower card because it supposed to be less noisy?
Keep the crap about personal attacks confined to reported posts. Stop derailing threads by categorizing other poster's replies as "adhom" attacks. Stick to the actual topic please. -DrPizza
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Most likely correct, right. How is it that you forgot to mention that it also very likely to be a slower card?
And, of course, you pulled the pricing out of thin air - 5870 is $400, 5850 is $300-320 and 5770 is around $180, 4850 X2 2GB is also around $180... I bet 5850 will be $240-260 when it arrives.
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Most likely correct, right. How is it that you forgot to mention that it also very likely to be a slower card?
And, of course, you pulled the pricing out of thin air - 5870 is $400, 5850 is $300-320 and 5770 is around $180, 4850 X2 2GB is also around $180... I bet 5850 will be $240-260 when it arrives.
You meant 5830 correct, but you are right the 5850 was just in the hot deals for 259.00$,which was the original msrp. Prices should stabilize and mabe fall when the NDA lifts for the gf100 series in about 24 hours.
I don't think there are gonna sell the 5830 in the same price bracket as the 5850 so 240/260$ sounds a little high. And the 5770 can be had for 155$ shipped now at the Egg. If you split the difference? 260$ 5850 and 155$ for the 5770. ? thats about 200$ but we all know that won't happen with a newly released card.
I'm thinking 229.95$
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and where in the world do you see it at that price??
Well, not to plug myself but recently I heard someone sold his 4850 X2 1GB at this price so I've lowered my 2GB to the same price tag and as I look around I don't think I'm alone despite these cards are still under mfr warranty (2 years.)
Also if you deploy Bing cashback etc you should be able to knock off at least $10 from most etailers' price.
That's a bit high, either free shipping or $200 would be appropriate, I agree.
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if you see one for that price let me know as i will be in the market for one in the next couple of weeks
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~ HD5850.
However, the newer 40nm card is much more overclockable. People are getting over 1000 MHz core with ASUS voltage tweak. Apparently MSI Afterburner download works well also.
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The HD 4850X2 2GB is simply faster than any current nvidia single GPU, with a 30% average, sometimes even faster than that, but because it is a multi GPU solution you may encounter some scaling issues, but at this stage, SLI and Crossfire are very mature.
Faster - when I wrote 285/295 I didn't recall the name of the dual-GPU one hence my lame wording, sorry.
if you are using the power supply in your signature i would be careful on the X2 video card. might not have enough juice for it
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4850X2 2GB is faster. I don't see any point getting the other one unless you're about to build a silent/HTPC or you're power-limited.
As for possible CF-issues: look at my tested & problem-free games list above (for details my rig is linked in my sig, I only upgraded my RAM from 4GB to 8GB when I switched to W7 last Fall) - I think it's rather obvious CF drivers are very mature, as evolucion8 said.
There are few ones on my list I haven't had a chance to confirm under W7 x64 yet: CoD, CoD2, Prey and Dark Messiah M&M but they definitely worked fine under XP SP3 a year ago already.
To tell you the truth I haven't noticed much difference since I replaced the 4850 X2 2GB with my current 5870...
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Here you go:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd4890_8.html#sect1
4890 stock
4890 1ghz overclock
4850 x2 stock
And the person who said 4850X2 is about is fast as GTX260 made me laugh! 4890 > GTX260 nevermind 4850 X2s....
Personally if you decided to get 2 cards, I would say get 2x 5770s (lower power consumption and faster than 5870 for $100 less):
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5770-hd5750-crossfirex_8.html
As you can see 4850X2 is a good card, but often struggles at higher resolution with AA due to lack of memory bandwidth (and you have a 24 inch monitor).
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Here you go:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd4890_8.html#sect1
4890 stock
4890 1ghz overclock
4850 x2 stock
And the person who said 4850X2 is about is fast as GTX260 made me laugh! 4890 owns GTX260 nevermind 4850 X2s....
good find, i am still getting the X2 though
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