sifus out here just wanna ask that gigabyte 4850 izit worth buying the cooling system that gigabyte offer izit good? its not a dual slot cooler can the fan by gigabyte cool down the 4850 efficiently?

thanks for all reply... yeah lo, coz i compare with palit 4870 sonic, rm890 i can get it zoh = the performance with gainward 4870gs 512mb which is almost rm930-960

so another 1 more question la, who will be handle palit warranty ? i mean, gainward as i know will be neiraid/scanart sdn bhd, how about palit? is it still the same distri?

btw i thought gainward bigger than palit if u all didnt said ,maybe coz of active distri here

Buy HIS brand,it's cooler is reliable.

as i know HIS 4850 ICEQ turbo quite pricy,but compared to gecube 4850 single slot cooler not so good izit?

dont get single slot aka reference 4850.

well...may i noe wats the cons of getting a reference card?

temperature problem, cant OC much.
but problem pretty much resolve wit fan control..................if u can bare the noise.

bad temperature ( coz using normal/stock cooler), and u will need aftermarket cooler to to cool ur GC which will cost u more money...

reference card also not factory OC, which will not perform better than Oced GC...

since the gc has a bad temp u also not be able to OC it...

is gigabyte 4850 cooling as good as ICEQ but gigabyte does not have good appearance as other cards.

This post has been edited by S4PH: Nov 19 2008, 12:13 AM

Sure bor?

http://www.guru3d.com/article/gigabyte-rad...85oc1gi-review/

It dont have good appearance?
Im not sure you want a good appearance cooler or one that does what it does best.

Idling at 46~47C and it comes overclocked from factory, 700MHz core.

Yeah but that's the temp of one core, dunno about the other one.

damn cool bro idle at 35 degrees but 1 thing the rams got no cooling dats a drawback.

Unless you wanna overclock.

IMO, there is no use overcloking card anymore. Basically, most games are able to run 60-70FPS and some are able to break 100++ FPS. Only few games like Flight Simulator, Commander of the sea, Crysis and Crysis Warhead are unable to run well on 4850. However, the frame rate it too low to justify the reason to overclock it as it wont even push pass 30FPS on average. So why bother overcloking.

but the xtra framebuffer really helps for crysis,even 4870 is outbeaten at lower resolution.In guru3d also stated the oc potential of gigabyte card is quite impressive 811 core,btw i din know it was zalman cooler.

Just keep in mind that Guru3d is running medium setting nia.

Im using this card. The performance with Crysis Warhead is another different story.

DirectX 10 ENTHUSIAST 1X @ Map: ambush @ 0 1280 x 768 AA 0x
==> Framerate [ Min: 17.94 Max: 31.78 Avg: 25.86 ]

DirectX 10 ENTHUSIAST 1X @ Map: avalanche @ 0 1280 x 768 AA 0x
==> Framerate [ Min: 11.77 Max: 42.15 Avg: 28.95 ]

DirectX 10 ENTHUSIAST 1X @ Map: frost @ 0 1280 x 768 AA 0x
==> Framerate [ Min: 15.95 Max: 25.32 Avg: 20.64 ]

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DirectX 10 GAMER 1X @ Map: ambush @ 0 1280 x 768 AA 2x
==> Framerate [ Min: 22.55 Max: 44.88 Avg: 32.55 ]

DirectX 10 GAMER 1X @ Map: avalanche @ 0 1280 x 768 AA 2x
==> Framerate [ Min: 13.70 Max: 55.31 Avg: 38.12 ]

DirectX 10 GAMER 1X @ Map: frost @ 0 1280 x 768 AA 2x
==> Framerate [ Min: 19.18 Max: 32.83 Avg: 25.19 ]

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Added on November 19, 2008, 1:35 amThis is with 16x anistropic anti aliasing in CCC.

DirectX 10 GAMER 1X @ Map: avalanche @ 0 1280 x 768 AA 0x
==> Framerate [ Min: 18.66 Max: 50.64 Avg: 31.59 ]

DirectX 10 GAMER 1X @ Map: ambush @ 0 1280 x 768 AA 0x
==> Framerate [ Min: 21.48 Max: 42.98 Avg: 31.08 ]

This post has been edited by andrekua: Nov 19 2008, 01:35 AM

lol...lets hope cat 8.12 can do the magic...by the way, who is using colourful hd4850? i find difficulty to oc lar..

AMD Catalyst 8.11 Hotfix for X58 platform : http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=354283

For my case, the stock cooler is doing the job pretty much fine. With some manual fan speed controlling or flash the bios, the 4850 idling at around 48-52c depends on ambient temp and full load at 70-80c.

The GC is not tat fragile against the high temperature, if you want to extend the lifespan of the GC with "low" temperature, you might as well buy a mid range card and keep on upgrading them every 2 years or so if you have the budget.

For OC, I can't gain much FPS from 625mhz core to 700mhz in crysis, just around 2-3FPS increment can't really motivate me to stick with that clock speed. Currently, only crysis requires insane GPU processing power while other new titles such as Far Cry 2 runs fine on my 4850.

IMO, not really worth to get the OC-ed version card, unless you are loaded with cash

Mine Sapphire 4850 is just fine,dual slot cooler anyway.Never exceeds 60celsius even in gaming.I see the Catalyst Control Center.

havent got the chance to c the difference after oc..perhaps my card is driver locked which makes me unable to oc my card...wahaha...