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

August 18th, 2008 at 2:29 am
What about fan? Only 2pin. Is it noisy?
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:16 am
fan is fully controllable through ccc & rivatuner!
card has a idle temp of around 40C and load around 60C in case with good airflow.