News Sapphire launches new Radeon HD 4770

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2009/08/20/sapphire-launches-new-radeon-hd-4770/1

 

Nice. Great price point, especially with the custom cooling solution. Dunno about the blue PCB though...

 

I picked one up without difficulty to be honest. Maybe I was just lucky. Either way, it's a fantastic little card. Whisper silent underneath my other components and a good 40 degrees (seriously) cooler than my old 7900GT. And given my little 1440x900 monitor's max resolution, it eats most games for breakfast. I'd still recommend it to anyone.

 

Forget the 4770. Will these yield problems affect the up coming DX11 cards?

 

Nice card, good price point and performance, will recommend that for anyone just wanting a simple enough machine that can play the odd game or two.

 

HD 4870's are only £110 now. just saying!

 

yeah, too little too late, the release of the 5xxx series is just too soon for this card to be an attractive buy right now

 

TBH, I don't think I'm going to buy any new Graphics card until the performance jump is similar to what I did last time:
Radeon 9800 Pro 256Mb -> 8800GT 512Mb

Got a generation or so to go, methinks!

 

My all time favourite card this. It was just the bomb.

 

It's still going Strong! - My fiancee's uncle has it, playing Halo and HL2 at 1280x1024.

 

Why does sapphire insist on using D-sub?

 

For us diehard CRT luddites, mainly - though I've had to use a DVI converter so often that half the time I just leave it on there, even when using an old card like the 9800.

 

My other rig uses a CRT...

There's an adapter for that. Of course that GPU has a Dsub...

 

well, when u consider the Asus HD4850 with the custom cooler (which runs 10c hotter than the HD4770) can be picked up for £75 from scan
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/512M...GDDR3-GPU-625-MHz-800-Cores-2-x-DL-DVI-I-HDTV
it kinda makes the HD4770 slightly redundant as the HD4850 is slightly more powerfull and also cheaper.
plus the fact that i own the same Asus HD4850 in the link and it runs virtually every game on full @ 1680x1050 res lcd monitor.

the next purchase for me tho will be when the 5-series cards are out and have dropped to the £150-£200 mark.

still tho, great news that ATI have solved the 40nm issue and that Saphire have come to the rescue with a newer designed board.

 

well, in a perfect world they wouldn't have had yield problems and the cost of manufacturing would have been reduced making this card probably even cheaper. That said, the 4850 overall is marginally faster than the 4770 which usually comes very close to the 4850's performance, and many times even trumps it. My question is doesn't this card make the 4850 redundant?

 

It should make the HD4850 redundant, but as you an see, there's a shortage of said HD4770s.

 

:facepalm: It was a rhetorical question.

 

But...but....it is....

 

With HD4850's available at around £70-£80 and HD4870 / GTX260's available for a little over £100 this is too little too late.

Now all we need now is some killer titles to justify the next gen cards.

 

*drumroll*
Crysis

(someone had to say it)