i saw in cycom selling sapphire 4870 for RM1099

ur sig.. |Saphire HD4870 750/3600|

3600 ?? wow..   stable?

ATI readies OEM special: SuperRV770 to challenge GeForce GTX 260, 280 

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The "Super RV770" will arrive with pre-installed water-cooling and features unlocked BIOS, which enables the GPU to be pushed all the way to 950 MHz, while the memory can be pushed to 4.8 GT/s (1.2 GHz QDR). According to our sources, you may be able to push the GPU even beyond 1 GHz, if you use TEC elements, and keep the temperature of GPU low.

2). The GTX 200 series power saving features do NOT work on an Intel platform. That’s right. I thought I was the odd one out when I saw countless other websites posting about the down-clocks and down-voltages, whereby the GPU settles at 300Mhz Memory to 100Mhz etc when no 3D app is running. What some of them failed to state was that they only achieved this on an Nvidia platform; while ALL the reviews out there failed to warn consumers that this does NOT work on an Intel platform at all. The writeups out there further confuse you by stating the downclocks are achieved in drivers, while only the full hybrid power features, i.e., shutting down the GPU and offloads 2D to the onboard IGP require an Nvidia platform. They just don’t know what they are talking about.

This was confirmed after a 30 minute phone conversation with an XFX engineer, the manufacturer of my GTX 280.

What this translates to is that all the idle power consumption graphs you saw on reviews over the GTX 200 series do NOT apply to an Intel platform. Again, out of the 15 odd reviews out there, not one, I repeat, NOT A SINGLE ONE, bothered to state this clearly. Whats the user footprint in the real world with an Nvidia platform? 0.1% of the PC population?

The GPU temp does drop back to the 50s while idling in Windows, but the clocks do not scale back, which leads me to believe there is no real power savings.

Power Saving Issue with GTX 280 on an Intel Chipset (x48):

4870xf or 4870X2?

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Right now running HD4870 + HD4850 in CF mode

4870 and 4850 can work together as cf?

They still trying to CF, donno the conclude yet..

2x4850=$398 so ATI cheaper
2x4870=$598 so nVidia cheaper

If GTX280 dropped to $499, how about price for 9800GX2, GTX260 and 4870x2.      

anyone did 3dmark06 on 4870? wats your score? i got 14799....running on Q9450@3.00Ghz,4gb ram.....is it ok?

What's a S3?

which brand to get if consider 4870? sapphire? gecube?

is this with the new 'hotfix' patch by AMD?

or do i need to get 3rd party software to adjust the fan speed? which one?

yup
check 4 warranty oso
the longer the better

yup
the difference is the sticker if any

no sticker?i thought the ATi reference sticker.

eh, just played some bioshock. no slowdown. gears of war, no slowdown. everything runs fantastic.

maybe i should try some crysis. lol.

alright, finally got my 3dmarks 06 score with the 4850.

9369!

why so low lah -- is it because my CPU is only a core 2 duo???

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i haven't overclocked my card, default at 625 mhz.

oh..maybe its because i ran the tests at 1280x1024....

let me try at higher resolution.

Perhaps its the motherboard? I am using a cheap gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L.what limits the speed of the card? the bus speed?
Does the ram also affect the speed of the card? I only have 2 gigs but i am not running in pairs because i only have two slots on the motherboard -- will upgrade to 4 gb eventually.

i am running vista as well. 

let say my PSU wont able to support this hardware,

what will happen?

PSU damage?
hardware damage?
or system refuse to boot only?

note that my PSU is "chapalang" one