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First Pictures of Sapphire HD 4850 1GB Presented

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Now i just purchased today the 512MB model ... the 1GB model ... lol!!! fu**ers!!! :D

It's just JK, i'm very happy of the change since 2xHD2600 Pro, this card is amazing, even with just 512MB i'm almost hitting 15k with 685Mhz/1020Mhz on the card ... maybe i'll purchase this 1GB within some months to do the X-Fire, should be great :)

Btw, the stock cooler of 4850 is not that crap ... if you up the speed till 40% (not too much noisy) it maintains 46ºC @ idle at stock clocks ... and arriving till 61-62ºC after 30mins full ... and this one seems better so i don't think it's bad at all. Same thing happened with 3870x2

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Now i just purchased today the 512MB model ... the 1GB model ... lol!!! fu**ers!!! :D

It's just JK, i'm very happy of the change since 2xHD2600 Pro, this card is amazing, even with just 512MB i'm almost hitting 15k with 685Mhz/1020Mhz on the card ... maybe i'll purchase this 1GB within some months to do the X-Fire, should be great :)

Btw, the stock cooler of 4850 is not that crap ... if you up the speed till 40% (not too much noisy) it maintains 46ºC @ idle at stock clocks ... and arriving till 61-62ºC after 30mins full ... and this one seems better so i don't think it's bad at all. Same thing happened with 3870x2

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Yeah I found 35% to be great for windows keeps it low temp and quiet, but when running ATI tools artifact tester or heavy games like crysis it got too hot still so I found 60% to be the next stop, in a quiet room you hear it for sure, but while playing a game I did not hear it. Higher than 60% didnt seem to give much benifit and got much louder. 100% is insane.

So I created two profiles one called stock with stock clocks for windows and stuff with 35% fan and one called overclock with 60% fan speed and clocks at 675/1050 (my max stable for both cards in crossfire)

I however did a bios flash just the other day and now my temps will change the fan speed acordingly so no more profile swaping for me and I have the cards at 710/1050 now ^^ because you can boost the core voltage in the bios from ~1.1 to 1.2 it seems it may be stable at 720mhz but I am not 100% sure yet.

Keep in mind 2 things

1.) My case is a P182SE so its a very quiet case but not the greatest airflow due to the dust filters & fan coverings.
2.) I have 2 cards in crossfire so more noise & temps vs a 1 card setup.

Autotune put my cards at 690/1160 and 690/1065 so looks like one card is crap compared to the other when it comes to memory :(
 

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1GB is a good idea but I don't really feel like swapping the cooler and voiding the warranty day one or being embarrassed to open my case.

I think I'll wait for the Asus version which looks better and includes a decent, quiet cooler.
ASUS EAH4850/HTDI/1G

There are 3 wires going to the fan so the speed should be software controllable.
 
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hell, if you just want pure cooling performance then go for the quad fan hyper sink edition ^^ :laugh:

 
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Has anyone noticed that the cooling fins are ALUMINIUM? - There is no copper in sight!!! Oh dear, I'd think that the newe PCB colour would mean a different bios with different fanspeeds, but this just reminds me of the Sapphire X1950PRO; where aluminium was used instead of copper.

FALE. as IRA FBI said.

Cost cutting bonanza ftw! Then again, IF these cards prove to be cheaper, you could easily fix up the cooling issue by just getting an AcceleroS1 + some extra ramsinks for mosfets.
Lets see guys, which do you prefer?:

Sapphire X1950PRO


or

Sapphire HD4850


1GB is a good idea but I don't really feel like swapping the cooler and voiding the warranty day one or being embarrassed to open my case.

I think I'll wait for the Asus version which looks better and includes a decent, quiet cooler.
ASUS EAH4850/HTDI/1G

There are 3 wires going to the fan so the speed should be software controllable.

Sapphire's warranty normally covers even cooler replacements; it happened with the X1950PROs when they died cause people didnt cool their digital MOSFETs when installing VF900CUs :laugh:, and what? How does opening your case make you embarassed???
I wouldnt buy that ASUS cause the MOSFETs are bare, However, ASUS did retain all four phases so therefore the MOSFETs shouldnt run warm at all. I remember on the HD3850 they only had two of the four GPU phases intact and therefore the MOSFET heatsink was necessary. How much power usage does a 4850 have anyway?
 
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hell, if you just want pure cooling performance then go for the quad fan hyper sink edition ^^ :laugh:


I remember seeing such a card made by Gainward. It was a GeForce FX 5950 something. It had fans at odd locations.
 
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I will wait for a RED 1GB model and flash teh bios ftw!
 
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Flash the BIOS with what? Won't these new cards have the 'fixed' BIOS?
Mind you I think the real fix (as opposed to lowering the clock extremely and not gaining much) for that 'advanced power management' might need AMD's 'the power guy' who is supposedly on vacation to return and fix, and one hopes it doesn't need a hardware chip-level fix for the REAL fix. Not that this is a huge issue though.
Incidentally, I can't believe people would actually decide not to buy a card solely based on color, even if you have a windowed system, you can always find ways to fix that yourself if need be.
 
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Well, I would take the cooler off and spray paint it because that is one ugly looking graphics card

Bathroom Blue just doesn't invoke the thought of high performance.
 
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For me it's the red that's present, that shade of red and blue don't mix, if they go for blue then make the fan and text match I would argue.
Of course if you don't like blue then now you can take off the shroud and paint it red or some matching color and it would nicely fit the fan, but it's the combination which makes this in its present form not work.
It's also sort of ironic to make something blue that gets so hot that they put a sticker on it warning you to not touch it, 'burns like liquid nitrogen on the skin' I guess you could market it as :) They should put an image of a glass with liquid nitrogen on it rather than ruby.
 
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I personally love the blue, but I wish they would offer a better shroud/cooler combo. All that does is create a type of vacuum or greenhouse effect with heat. Not much escape room.
 
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Has anyone noticed that the cooling fins are ALUMINIUM? - There is no copper in sight!!! Oh dear, I'd think that the newe PCB colour would mean a different bios with different fanspeeds, but this just reminds me of the Sapphire X1950PRO; where aluminium was used instead of copper.

x1950pro did't use aluminium fins cooler but copper fins, some of cards even had copper square over gpu plus U shaped copper insertion in aluminium base over for better cooling. it was 75W card after all :)
 
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