Originally posted by: Mem
I wonder how much of an improvement we'll see with the drivers for the 4850/4870 cards in the coming months,yes I know we still don't have any official benchmarks but AMD/ATi seems to get some decent performance improvements after a few months or so.
Throw in the unknown overclocking factor with these cards and we may be well surprised with the peformance,only time will tell.
Originally posted by: airhendrix13
Sounds like ATi has a real winner on their hands.
One question though. In SteelSix's review, I saw that the 4850 idled at 63C. Does that seem a little hot to anyone else? How does it compare with the GT2X0?
Originally posted by: Extelleron
Originally posted by: Mem
I wonder how much of an improvement we'll see with the drivers for the 4850/4870 cards in the coming months,yes I know we still don't have any official benchmarks but AMD/ATi seems to get some decent performance improvements after a few months or so.
Throw in the unknown overclocking factor with these cards and we may be well surprised with the peformance,only time will tell.
That's what we all thought with R600, but it never happened. Drivers improved performance but not by nearly enough margins to get HD 2900XT performing close to the 8800GTX. In fact I think drivers improved more for G80 during that time period, because the HD 2900XT was awful close to the GTX in some benches at release, but now the two are separated by huge margins.
I don't think we are going to see significant driver improvements for either GT200 or RV770 cards. Both are based on previous architectures and are just wider with some small improvements/tweaks, and the drivers for R600/G80 are pretty mature at this point.
I'm still really interested in how RV770 clocks, but it is hard to tell right now because there is no other utility capable of overclocking these cards but CCC, and CCC only allows 700MHz core on the 4850.
Originally posted by: airhendrix13
Sounds like ATi has a real winner on their hands.
One question though. In SteelSix's review, I saw that the 4850 idled at 63C. Does that seem a little hot to anyone else? How does it compare with the GT2X0?
The 4850 is a pretty hot card from what we have seen so far. Jimmyz on xtremesystems reported very high temps as well, but when he replaced the stock TIM temps improved drastically. Apparently there is too much TIM and this disrupts transfer of heat to the HSF instead of helping it.
Originally posted by: SteelSix
ATI 4850 CROSSFIRE QUIK REVIEW
TEST SYSTEM
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- Vista 64 Premium SP1
Originally posted by: Foxery
Originally posted by: SteelSix
ATI 4850 CROSSFIRE QUIK REVIEW
TEST SYSTEM
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- Vista 64 Premium SP1
Wait, why are you in DX9 mode if you're running Vista? If you are truly running this game in DX9 mode, your numbers can't be compared to reviewers who used DX10.
Originally posted by: airhendrix13
Sounds like ATi has a real winner on their hands.
One question though. In SteelSix's review, I saw that the 4850 idled at 63C. Does that seem a little hot to anyone else? How does it compare with the GT2X0?
Originally posted by: Foxery
Originally posted by: SteelSix
ATI 4850 CROSSFIRE QUIK REVIEW
TEST SYSTEM
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- Vista 64 Premium SP1
Wait, why are you in DX9 mode if you're running Vista? If you are truly running this game in DX9 mode, your numbers can't be compared to reviewers who used DX10.
Originally posted by: ghost recon88
SteelSix, are you sure Crossfire is enabled? Try running it with 1 card. That score seems kinda low for Crossfire
Originally posted by: SteelSix
Originally posted by: ghost recon88
SteelSix, are you sure Crossfire is enabled? Try running it with 1 card. That score seems kinda low for Crossfire
I'm pretty sure CF was enabled. What score seems low?
Originally posted by: ghost recon88
Originally posted by: SteelSix
Originally posted by: ghost recon88
SteelSix, are you sure Crossfire is enabled? Try running it with 1 card. That score seems kinda low for Crossfire
I'm pretty sure CF was enabled. What score seems low?
http://i133.photobucket.com/al...steelsix/3DMark06s.jpg
Was that on the standard 1280x1024 settings? A single 8800GTS 512MB can do that? Not to threadcrap or start any fights, but I've seen a single HD4850 do 14k, so 18k for Crossfire seems a little low.
Originally posted by: airhendrix13
Sounds like ATi has a real winner on their hands.
One question though. In SteelSix's review, I saw that the 4850 idled at 63C. Does that seem a little hot to anyone else? How does it compare with the GT2X0?
Originally posted by: Kuzi
Originally posted by: airhendrix13
Sounds like ATi has a real winner on their hands.
One question though. In SteelSix's review, I saw that the 4850 idled at 63C. Does that seem a little hot to anyone else? How does it compare with the GT2X0?
This is what a guy at XS testing the HD 4850 said:
"Some notes before the testing. The fan speed very low on the factory bios, I haven't been able to use any fan control to raise the speed so far. The temp is most likely fine even with an Idle of 79c but Being an XS'er I removed the factory thermal goop and replaced it with A.S. Ceramique. the idle temps are now 55c most of the time."
I'm shocked that only using a thermal compound lowered the idle temps more than 20C. Those cheap video card makers don't seem to be using any thermal compound at all
Maybe SteelSix should use some to lower his idle temps
Originally posted by: Aberforth
Originally posted by: betasub
Originally posted by: Aberforth
Well, I did buy 8800 GTX in SLI after reading Anantech's review, I was hoping to max everything @ 25x16 res, it was one of the worst purchases I've ever made.
How so? Was it the price you paid at the time, or the performance at 25x16?
As a non-8800GTX owner, I see lots of 8800GTX owners on AT forums proclaiming them a great purchase at the time - longevity at the high end, good balance of strong GPU/high bandwidth/large buffer.
In the PC industry there are new things that keep popping up every few weeks, it's really stupid of us to think our SLI/CF setup will last long. I can guarantee only 6 months. Meaning they won't deliver top-notch performance so you won't be future proof even for 6 months. It's bad, considering the amount of money you spend, look at the console markets, when you buy a console for your kid you will surely think it's going to last for 6 to 7 years. It's not that way for PC's, it's just that- under pressure of hype and brainwashing reviews we forget our economical intuition. It is never about how much money you spend, it's all about how wisely you spend and how much value you get out of that purchase. I don't have SLI anymore, gave the other card to my friend- we all like to play Crysis multilayer during lunch
Originally posted by: Calculator83
HOLY crap jesus.. If the 4870 is even 25% better than 4850 which it certainly should be.. Then ATI is gonna clean house.
Originally posted by: Kuzi
It will if it's going to sell for only $300