For the f sake,most of them is reference board,just different brand and that it
Some got different cooler or more phase,not much difference actually

HD4850 is a little overhype in my opinion.
Here is some Crysis Warhead benchie that i did yesterday@4.1ghz and 740mhz/1160mhz,ATI Cat8.10,2GB Xtreem 1066mhz,434x9.5 and XP 32bit:
10/23/2008 21:47:09 - Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2

DirectX 9.0c ENTHUSIAST 3X @ Map: ambush @ 0 1440 x 900 AA 0xx
==> Framerate [ Min: 19.37 Max: 39.84 Avg: 32.32

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10/23/2008 21:52:45 - Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2

DirectX 9.0c ENTHUSIAST 2X @ Map: frost @ 0 1440 x 900 AA 0xx
==> Framerate [ Min: 23.87 Max: 38.79 Avg: 31.96

One more thing,why VPU recovery will occur all out of sudden?OC unstable?But last time,i could play grid with this setting without VPU recovrry.

Cycom have HIS in stock and list for RM499

GTX280 vs HD4870 1GB vs HD4850X2
Should be fun to see this war

http://hwbot.org/quickSearch.do?hardwareId=GPU_1403
57k 3dm03 with cf,33k 3dm05 with cf,323k aq3 cf,18k 3dm06 with cf but all of these other then 3dm06 is done with LN2 lah,5900mhz-6ghz
Look like a cheap benching card that is fun as well,wonder when someone step the game up and broke 100k 3dm01

Palit and Gainward is same thing,just different sticker as palit is parent company of gainward

Anyone have this issue with 8.11??The clock speed need to be tested before apply and rivatuner,after press apply it won't set to the clock i desire!!!Stuck forver at 700/1100
Nvidia is still the best choice for me i guess

That why went for more better shop,say cycom or robyncom.
But why ah never experience teh lulz before

You except every LYN member to spoon feed everything to you???
You can try cycom or robyncom,the staff there quite knowledgeable and their parts cover quite a good range as well
Just google:How to assemble a pc and there will be hell lot of result poping out

I think you need to tweak your system to get the best out of your gc.
Even my cacat tweak system with HD4850 also can play smoothly on far cry 2 full setting 1440x900 without aa and af
My setup:E8500@434x9.5 4123mhz,1:1,TRD 8,2x1GB Xtreem 1066mhz D9GKX@1:1 5-5-5-12,Sapphire HD4850 Toxic@720/1100 with cat8.10 so my setup is not optimize lor