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4890 Who Pulled the Trigger?

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It's here.

My new 4890 as finally arrived. :)

I was expecting it only tomorrow or at most thursday. My wife called me from work and asked me if i had fetch my box at the post office. What! NO. Where??

I was unaware of the postal pickup card on her desk. So i went to get it and just came back.

I ordered the MSI R4890-T2D1G last week. I opened the shipping box to make sure of it's content and was happy to see my purchase.

But what's this??? There's a small sticker on the right bottom part of the box that say's "OC edition". :confused:

I open it to get that big card out, remove the static bag and take a closer viual inspection. Mmmm...

Indead :) The model number sticker behind the card confirms what the sticker on the box says.

Instead of getting the regular MSI R4890-T2D1G, The online store messed up and sent me the R4890-T2D1G-OC. :D

The OC edition is 880MHz Core and 3996MHz Memory. NEAT!

I already posted my 4870 for sale here earlier since my colleague at work declined my offer. His loss!

The worst part is that he only needs a new PSU and a Video card to power up his new rig. :wtf:
 
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Well, I was too busy today, and haven't made the purchase.. and if I order and pay tomorrow it will probably get delayed till tuesday because of Easter and all that :/ So I'll just do the buying next week :(
 
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Sheeeesh ...bought mine on release day and am STILL waiting for the UPS man to show up. UPS is freaking PATHETIC.
 

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they are no where near as bad as USPS, USPS has been losing packages left and right, if I had any say id bring a lawsuit against them for hiring dipshits.

Last time their Service was any good was early 2007 after that they have been absent minded fools.
 
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Well my card showed today and .... the fan doesn't run but in spurts :shadedshu
duh duh duuhhhhhhh
RMA here it comes. I really hate this. They send me a P.O.S. I pay to ship it back and wait for freakin UPS again.:wtf:
Oh well such is the hardware addicts life.:banghead:
 
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did you try using the fan control in ccc...
 
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Yeah I turned it up to 100% ... It said the fan was running at 17%:wtf: and it wasn't even turning. It just sort of "sputtered". Run a half second or a second and stop. :shadedshu
 
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feel for ya... i would not of been happy.....
 

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Yeah I turned it up to 100% ... It said the fan was running at 17%:wtf: and it wasn't even turning. It just sort of "sputtered". Run a half second or a second and stop. :shadedshu

I'm sure you'll have better luck with your replacement card. Sorry to hear though... :/
 
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Don't freak me out guys.. I've just ordered mine today :/ Luckily, I'm getting it directly from importer, and if it's broke I'm going back to them the same day for exchange :p But I still hope all will be fine
 
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Well, got mine in hand finaly! And all I can say is - that Sapphire sticker is UGLY! I mean, Club3D had nothing fancy, but it look better :D Anyway, I'm rushing home from work, as soon as I test a few things I'll let you all know how it feels ;)
 
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^In all likelyhood there's a sticker just like the one on Club3D cards, under the Sapphire sticker. The Club3D sticker is ATi "reference sticker", most AIBs just slap their own on the ref. sticker. I wish they didn't waste money on useless stickers...
 
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top pic is actually of an X1800XL the X1800XT has 6 mosfets vs 5 on the XL and 7 on the X1900XTX

I still have my X1800XT to prove it even and that blank white square is where my 6th mosfet is fried from a piece of smoldering wood that hit it when my house burned down december of 2006. I can get it to boot and run 2d, but the instant I start a 3d app, it's artifact city.

At any rate the difference between the x1800 and the x1900 is far greater than the difference between the 4870 and 4890.

correct I still have my 2 x1800xl :toast:
 
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largon - tnx, I even thought about getting it off :) But since it's in closed case (no window, under table, near my feet) I really don't care except those few minutes I was looking at it in my hands :)

My first impressions?
Fallout 3 @ 1920x1440 - 55fps average, 35fps minimum.. DX9, all maxed, AA, AF, HDR etc, all I could find. Nice! Tried 1920x1080 before that, it was even better, since it's pretty big difference in pixel count. I also tried Stalker CS on 1920x1080 and was running between 40-60 fps, haven't benched so I don't have average, but it's nice and smooth, and that's all that matters. I don't have any other games installed currently, but I'm going to Windows 7 in a few minutes, and will try installing more games there, just to test a bit. Oh, and in case someone wonders why 1920x1080 on 17" CRT - to test if this card will allow me to run newer games on those LCDs I've been looking at last week or so (22-24", all at 1920x1080).

Oh, I've also played a bit with fan on ~1000rpm, which is pretty quiet and unnoticable from other fans in my case. Yeah, I forgot to put it back to auto before 3D :) When I was done playing, GPU was on 90+C, but alive :D Do not try this people! :D

On the other hand, when I put it to auto-fan, and after some 10 minutes of running around Fallout at 1920x1440 with all maxed, and going back to Windows, GPU temps were around 69-70C while gaming, and fan was switching from 32-33%. That's almost same as fan sounds in 2D (22-24%), since it's own noise is covered by other noises. And no, I don't have a very noisy system, thank you for asking :) Inside games you'll never notice it.

About overclocking, I haven't tried yet. And I think I even won't if all games will run so smoothly on stock speeds.. Will just save that once I get a game that won't run nicely on my future 1920x1080 screen.

What else?.. nothing pops to my mind. Oh, except that I'm glad I bought this one :) Cheers!

EDIT: If someone can recommend 5 games that are hardest on the GPU to test - please do! I know I'll try Crysis or Crysis Warhead (probably second one), and Far Cry 2. Since Fallout and STALKER are tested already, what else can you advise to test if this card will really be enough for my new display? Call of Duty 5? I need something that pops frames down to crawl on average GPUs.
 
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I feel ashamed.
I have yet to have even tried to OC my HD4890 eventhough I've had it in for a whole day now!
:eek:

Scrizz,
There are two kinds of X1800XTs, some with 6 Volterra VRMs and some with only 5. It seems early samples were 5 chipped. I have a 6 chipped X1800XT on my desk here.
 
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just saying b/c my xls have 5
 
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