Hardware Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Atomic

Why don't you build it and tell us

 

Bloody hell, they now have liquid cooled PSU's?!!

 

whoa

 

Great Gu! That's a touch excessive! I know what I'd be looking at if I built something like that - living off value baked beans for the next 3 years and totally brassic!

 

You're talking like making a great GPU is an easy task... Anyway, this is another win for ATI so congrats there guys! Love ya!

 

not worth the price increase in my mind (5% to 10% performance increase for a 25%-30% price increase...meh), but yeah, some people will buy them.

lol numanoid...gotta learn somewhere though as hippo said.

 

lol im getting there trig, the more i look at peoples problems and you guys helping them the more i learn , my rig is built now, just need a monitor, do i get a 26" or a 24"
take care all
ps hippo im not all that up on fps ( not at all up on anything lol) i didn't know if they were right or wrong, i just took it in m8
take care

 

Koolance has been making them (for retail) since 2001.

 

Nice review, looks like a great card if you can afford it.

 

oh I know.. just think you probably know more than most I've seen teachers here that are scared to use the computer and I know I couldn't do their job- I would roid rage when one of the kids told me to go to the hell lol

 

Abusurd Price.

And at any rate, there are Recertified EVGA GTX 285s and GTX 280s going for under $260.

 

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4870X2 2048MB GDDR5 - Retail - £258.74 Delivered @ Novatech + Quidco

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/400201/xfx-ati-radeon-hd-4870x2-2048mb-gdd/

May as well get the HD4870 X2 at this price!

 

@hippo, kids give you road rage full stop lol, yes m8 i might know more than most, and its all through reading forums like this, i still need to ask questions about things im not sure about (or dont know) its how you lern .
can you buy the cooler seperate what been done to this card that i cant do to my 4890 oc, i mean is it just the cooler letting the card run at that speed (keeping it cool enough) i mean if you put a stock cooler onto it would it still run ok
take care all

 

Spoilsport...

A man can dream, for Pete's sake, can't he?

 

Great performance, but a crude noisemaker, plus you have the issue of the Xfire driver profiles...I'd take the Atomic

 

Somehow these numbers don't look legit.I mean at xbitlabs, the stock clocked 4890 slightly outperforms a stock clocked gtx285 at these exact setts and resolutions in both Crysis and COD5:

Crysis Warhead
Cod5

 

Any news on availability of these beauties yet? Eager to get my hands on one.

 

I just wish Sapphire would make a version of this but with one of the two dual-link DVI's replaced by a DisplayPort, and sell it with a full-cover waterblock to make it a single-slot Radeon HD 4890 with the 1 GHz overclock. Keep the 6&8-pin power jacks, naturally.

 

I have 2 4870X2's in Crossfire and I just don't like the power consumption, noise, heat, and the heat is definitely causing image problems and possible BSOD's as well. So, I'm going with 2 Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Atomic's in Crossfire next. I did buy an aftermarket cooling solution ( Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME 4870X2), but ended up changing my mind! I just threw this on here as an example of nutty people out here who have a hard time being happy with their purchases : ()