Most aftermarket GC HSF takes up the other slot... So better confirm it before buying .

Depends on the bios. Gainward for example runs at minimum of 50% fan speed for the Golden Sample. Asus probably left the default min speed at 6% which is the same as reference cards.

Palit 4850 Sonic's heatsink is exactly the same as 4850GS. Just that the cover design is different.

But at stock 700/1100, yes there will be no difference at all in the performance.

Wait for the stock to come in man, no regrets .

THREE SLOT COOLER! 4870x2 GS is definitely on the way if this is the case .

How many people here uses quad CF with 4870x2 now? Doesn't really matter, this is for the "handsome" points! I love the 3 slot HSF! xD!

Each card 3 slot, need 4 of those @@. Super full tower + "full tower" mobo?

That dualslot cooler performs better than the sapphire 4850 toxic's? @@ Interesting...

But on load it goes up to 55C only? @@ Superb, I know the Toxic's did badly though..

Err, play some real game! FC2, RA3 instead of Dota everyday ma

I prefer Gainward's! Looks wayyyy cooler man! With those shades, looks more fierce.

This post has been edited by celciuz: Nov 6 2008, 11:59 PM

Set it to whichever speed that is comfortable for your ears

That Palit and Gainward is most probably the same spec. Same core speed same memory and probably the same PCB as well. So, only difference here is price, brand and finally the color .

4850GS went out of stock for sometime already. Very good sales la bro . But the new stocks coming in soon according to distro.

4850 will handle Crysis at High 1280x1024 well . No worries on that. But I'm not sure if your processor will bottleneck it or not though.

Partially affected by the available space on the 2GB system, but then again another caused might be DX9 versus DX10. DX9 is relatively faster compared to DX10. My computer running on Vista on DX9 for Crysis gives much better performance.

There's 2 version of this 4870x2 non reference from Gainward right? What's the difference?

One OC-ed another stock clock?

Hi! Any 4850 owners having issues like this in COD5? Thanks.

The next undercover patch will feature "the way game is meant to be played". Then you'll notice the 4800 series getting owned ._.

Cause the green shiny logo of Nvidia appears in most of the games. Thus, giving those who doesn't research a lot on which card more worth for the money.