We got it, Sapphire HD 4850 non ref version!

 

The card

We just got the Sapphire HD 4850 non ref version!  Now HD 4850 entered sub-$200 area, preparing a price war with N cards. A non ref HD 4850 can lower production cost while maintaining the performance. We can see this card only have 2+1 phase VRM, the PCB looks more simple than reference HD 4850. The card runs at 625/1986MHz, hope this version can bring down the price even more.

RV770 is hot, so even the cheap cooler contains cooper base

 

 

2 Phase VRM for RV770 core

2 Responses to “We got it, Sapphire HD 4850 non ref version!”

  1. Zoma Says:

    What about fan? Only 2pin. Is it noisy?

  2. Oli Says:

    fan is fully controllable through ccc & rivatuner!
    card has a idle temp of around 40C and load around 60C in case with good airflow.

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