Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 512MB

[Lordhumungus]

$194.99 - $20 rebate + Free Shipping = $174.99

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I think this is today only.

 

[msi1337]

dont forget your 2.75% back with live cashback

making it around $169 shipped! WOOOOOOOT

 

[ELopes580]

uber hot!!!! I just.... !@#$.... in.... my.... pants!!!!

 

[RallyMaster]

And to think the HD4850s were this price just a couple of months ago...

 

[dmw16]

Wow. Great deal. I paid $300 for mine not long ago. Wish my board supported Crossfire

 

[bpt8056]

The cooling solution on that card looks cool. Debating whether I should buy this or wait for a hot deal from Visiontek w/ lifetime warranty.

 

[LumbergTech]

arggggggggggggggggggggg i want this but i will have cash tomorrow

 

[Baked]

OMG, makes me wanna upgrade my 3870 even though I don't need it.

 

[nyker96]

man hat's pretty cheap!

 

[msi1337]

this is now cheaper if you get in on the 15% cashback for newegg (when using paypal) today

the card is $199.99 now.

199.99 - 15% back (29.99) - $20 MIR = 150.00 shipped

 

[Glavinsolo]

does this card beat the gtx260 and probably doesn't support physx

 

[msi1337]

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
does this card beat the gtx260 and probably doesn't support physx

the answers are:

it is comparable to GTX260

does it support physx? not sure

link to Tom's Hardware VGA charts

 

[Triglet]

It doesn't, but for $150 you can't go wrong. That MSI 260 is sold out, and the cheapest 260 I found was going to be around $50 more -- not worth it to me.

 

[Kelvrick]

How'd you get 150. Its 180, so the nearest 260 would be ~30 more. It doens't support physx but it supports direct x 10.1. Neither of which really do much right now. Power consumption is also more than the gtx 260's.

Essentially almost the same performance for both cards in my opinion, so get the one that costs less, or whatever manufacturer you're a fanboy of, ati or nvidia.

EDIT: Forgot about today's 15% cashback. Good deal!

 

[dakels]

wow... my first gen 4850 is working fine for me except 1 problem... it's so damn LOUD! To keep the temp under 80C I have to run 80-100% fan speed which literally sounds like a hairdryer in my case. How is this MSI kit?

 

[KeypoX]

I just jumped on this thanks

 

[LumbergTech]

Originally posted by: msi1337

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
does this card beat the gtx260 and probably doesn't support physx

the answers are:

yes, it spanks the GTX260 and GTX280

does it support physx? not sure

link to Tom's Hardware VGA charts

it does not spank the gtx260 and 280...what are you smoking?

its better than the 260 in some games, thats about as much as you can say

 

[t3ch]

Originally posted by: msi1337

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
does this card beat the gtx260 and probably doesn't support physx

the answers are:

yes, it spanks the GTX260 and GTX280

does it support physx? not sure

link to Tom's Hardware VGA charts

I thought that the 260 and 4870 were running just about the same benchmarks w/ games.

 

[t3ch]

Originally posted by: LumbergTech

Originally posted by: msi1337

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
does this card beat the gtx260 and probably doesn't support physx

the answers are:

yes, it spanks the GTX260 and GTX280

does it support physx? not sure

link to Tom's Hardware VGA charts

it does not spank the gtx260 and 280...what are you smoking?

its better than the 260 in some games, thats about as much as you can say

Ah beat me to it. Here is a better comparison than a 3dmark score. As mentioned above, you can see the 4870 edges in some games, the 260 edges in others... Both are good cards, there is no clear cut winner.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3437&p=5

 

[msi1337]

Originally posted by: t3ch

Originally posted by: LumbergTech

Originally posted by: msi1337

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
does this card beat the gtx260 and probably doesn't support physx

the answers are:

yes, it spanks the GTX260 and GTX280

does it support physx? not sure

link to Tom's Hardware VGA charts

it does not spank the gtx260 and 280...what are you smoking?

its better than the 260 in some games, thats about as much as you can say

Ah beat me to it. Here is a better comparison than a 3dmark score. As mentioned above, you can see the 4870 edges in some games, the 260 edges in others... Both are good cards, there is no clear cut winner.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3437&p=5

my bad.. I am too much of an ATI fanboy to accurately judge NV cards.. I haven't purchased an nvidia product in quite some time due to being upset about the whole laptop video fiasco

 

[dakels]

Originally posted by: t3ch

Originally posted by: LumbergTech

Originally posted by: msi1337

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
does this card beat the gtx260 and probably doesn't support physx

the answers are:

yes, it spanks the GTX260 and GTX280

does it support physx? not sure

link to Tom's Hardware VGA charts

it does not spank the gtx260 and 280...what are you smoking?

its better than the 260 in some games, thats about as much as you can say

Ah beat me to it. Here is a better comparison than a 3dmark score. As mentioned above, you can see the 4870 edges in some games, the 260 edges in others... Both are good cards, there is no clear cut winner.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3437&p=5

Most reviews show the 260 and 4870 alternating who is better depending on the game and conditions. The 4870 generally does better on high AA though if that is important to you. The 4850X2 is a different discussion and in any game supporting crossfire, it's miles ahead of the 4870, 260 and 280. With the newegg paypal deal it could be as low as $240.

 

[Schmide]

Curse you, now I bought my own present for the holidays. Mixed this with the zero therm for 14ar for ~30 off pay pal

 

[Schmide]

I think you could get this memory combo and end up getting the memory for free.

OCZ + 4870 $233-30rb-20rb -15% =$148

Crap missed that free memory

 

[tickyour]

In for the combo deal. Cant beat that for $147.24 AR