extreme power is not a true power psu.
get something like corsair or silverstone or something.

Exploding PSU, what PSU was it?

ST50F, I used this in my rig before. It worked out fine. No noise like my Huntkey. 500W pawning 550W lol. Since ST56F is the bigger brother, I think it should work out fine for a single 4850. Crossfire no idea.

This post has been edited by celciuz: Oct 4 2008, 06:56 PM

what gc u recom.. 9800gt or hd 4850??

ok...this is a bit....ridiculous...

well i used to prefer the 9800gt over the 4850 but now the 4850 looks better to me.

4850 will thrash 9800GT. Better comparison would be 4850 versus 9800GTX, but price tag. Err...

i thought it too by now.. hd 4850 is better
ermm thanks for u all information...

oh ya i got the new Corsair PSU from snakesolidus..nice guy

Corsair...single rail power rocks

but yea a true power PSU will give better power rather than the extreme power counterpart...get a better one

http://en.hardspell.com/doc/showcont.asp?news_id=3807 to make u feel more confident on 4850 . Frankly, they aren't on the same generation. 4850 was meant to compete with GTX260 (although price gap is there..).

9800GT is almost same as 8800GT but 9800GT is slower in term of performance....better got for ATI4850...

if you consider the technology....ATI4850 has all the newest things like DirectX...Shades..

This post has been edited by jimmy_none: Oct 4 2008, 07:28 PM

is it the same case with ATi's cards?

well i hope i can c the benchies on the 4870 1GB soon...

it's rly hard to decide whether jz to purchase 512 or 1GB...

I think those 1GB slower because they are using slower memory. Maybe 0.8ns versus 1.0ns to reduce cost?

4870 1GB proven faster than 512MB version at higher reso

the link : http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...1801&hl=gtx+260

This post has been edited by pikacu: Oct 4 2008, 07:38 PM

well, how high is it? i mean the min resolution to truly harness the extra memory?

according to the benchies u provide the min res they test is at 1920x1200?

This post has been edited by Sib: Oct 4 2008, 07:39 PM

check this out : http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=801801

the test at 2560 x 1600 expect crysis, at 1920 x 1200

This post has been edited by pikacu: Oct 4 2008, 07:40 PM

thx bro, future proof imo i shud jz go for the 1GB version...

1 thing does scares me a lot....power consumption! = higher bill!

4870 1GB uses a lot more wattage than 4870 512mb? IMO almost the same la for the wattage, plus or minus a bit only.

If you are comparing HD4870 512MB and HD4870 1GB power consumption,

1GB version only consume ~0.5 watt more than 512MB version at idle,

while ~0.5 watts more at load (according to the benchmark).

edit : the watts

This post has been edited by pikacu: Oct 4 2008, 07:47 PM

i'm actually comparing it to my 3870 here...

as for these 2 versions, it's not tat much a diff, seeing the extra juice it can pump out

err, wrong, it will somehow "blak blak"like youtube below...(sorry for supporter of huntkey)