Comments on: First Review: HD 4870 and HD 4850

By: Max

Max — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:21:58 +0000

Actually, I’m looking for the equivalent of “HD4850 Crossfire for Dummies”

By: Max

Max — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:30:11 +0000

I have 2 HD4850 cards in Crossfire but don’t really know how to adjust the settings to best suit what works.
Where can I find instructions on how to familiarize myself with the features and optimize the settings, and when would I use OverClocking?

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AMD RV775 Ready to Give Nvidia a Punch - Expreview.com — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:13:21 +0000

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By: yot

yot — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:47:37 +0000

This review is so old

By: Shinobi

Shinobi — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:00:57 +0000

You complain about the AMD card reaching 100c like no Nvidia has ever done that before.

8800GTS 640 > ~130c benched in my very own rig.. (using furmark)

Fourth card to go back for RMA at the eleventh month, Nvidia just can’t make cards that won’t burn up.. 66gt, 78gt, 79gt, 88gts.. They all stopped working after about a year.

Some with after market coolers that dropped temps in half, still die like flies.

By: Aramint

Aramint — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:28:31 +0000

Correct on that one Jeff, PCIe 1.1 and 2.0 was found to have no differences. Tom’s Hardware did a comprehensive test in this regards a while back.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:57:37 +0000

PCIe 1.1 x16 = 4GB/s
PCIe 2.0 x16 = 8GB/s

bottleneck issue will depend on games/applications…personally i think it is ok for current games

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:45:59 +0000

Ok, what I wanna know, is if E6550, OCed to 3.0Ghz will bottleneck HD4870, and, if is there going to be any differences between the PCI-E 1.1 and 2.0 motherboards? If there’ll be, how big will it be?

By: GTX 260 and HD 4870 drop to the same price, Which one to buy? - Expreview.com

GTX 260 and HD 4870 drop to the same price, Which one to buy? - Expreview.com — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:28:15 +0000

[...] 4870. As of July 4th, GTX 260 has dropped to the same price as HD 4870. In fact, we found GTX 260 almost the same as HD 4870 in performance, but GTX 260 has advantages in NVIDIA’s drivers and industry [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:36:50 +0000

Hi All,
can I just say that TDP is NOT the same as power consumption! TDP (Thermal Design Power) is a value that states how much waste heat energy needs to be transported away from the GPU (or CPU). The Power consumption is the sum of (energy used for calculation + energy wasted as heat), or the energy used for calculation divided by the efficiency. Thus, the TDP will be LOWER than the power consumption, even more so in an EFFICIENT or a USELESS (ie NOT doing a lot of calculations) GPU/CPU.
Just wanted to get that clarified.
Otherwise, good review, still scared of these temps, but will make a nice BBQ!

By: I don't have a name

I don't have a name — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:51:32 +0000

Hasan says

“Shit , Ati is loosing all GPU battles since 2002.”

Do you even have a clue what you are babbling about? The current ATI line up looks to me to be beating the COMPETING cards in their particular range. E.G. 4870>GTX260
4850>9800GTX. Do you follow this now? Or are you going to continue to be blindly ignorant always sucking nVidia’s dirty balls?

By: Is it just me, or is the 4870 a waste of money? - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:08:29 +0000

[...] http://en.expreview.com/2008/06/24/f…nd-hd-4850/22/ 25% difference at stock is good enough for the extra $100,though it would be nicer if 4870 was a bit lower but since its almost as fast as a gtx260 i don’t think it would drop in prices anymore. __________________ I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned I believe you can’t appreciate real love ’til you’ve been burned I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side I believe you don’t know what you’ve got until you say goodbye [...]

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Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:01:21 +0000

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Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:33:21 +0000

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By: m00t

m00t — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:51:09 +0000

GTX 280 phail’d @ price : performance…

By: philip

philip — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:08:32 +0000

to mur8t:

“all-setting high” means all “high” setting