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SCAVENGER1 wrote:yeah but i have a 8800 gtx though not gt . but yeah that would be kind of cool if it could work and run even better. but i wonder how that would work out?

Conclusion

The factory overclock on the Club3D HD 4850 OC Edition card doesn't bring any impressive performance gains when compared to the reference card. The main question here is if this card is worth the additional €20 or so.

We think it is, as you get a better cooling solution which will keep the card at a much more reasonable 63 degrees Celsius under load. The performance is practically the same as with a reference HD 4850, which can probably also overclock to 680MHz, but with the temperature at 87 degrees Celsius it can influence lifetime and other components in the case.

The price is just right; as this card sells for €146 and thus we can only recommend it, as Club3D did a good job with Zerotherm cooling. If it's too pricey for you, and you're looking for a €100 card, you can go for the HD 4830 or the HD 4670; but at sub-€150 this card hits the sweet spot.

The lovechild of ATI engineers and AMD accountants, dubbed Radeon HD4830, has finally dropped under the €100 mark and started to make sense.

We tested it a month ago here. Sanjin was impressed by its performance, but not thrilled about the ridiculous pricing. Back then it was priced at €125, on par with HD4850 cards and obviously it didn't make any sense. We kept our eyes open for the price drop and told you to wait a bit in case you wanted one and this morning the new price started popping up on price search engines.

So there you have it, if you're in the market for sub-€100 graphics, the HD4830 is the way to go. You can a HIS HD4830 with non-reference cooling for €99, here.

For comparison, the cheapest HD4850 retails at €124, while the HD4870, following the price drop we talked about here, now costs €184.

With HDMI and Displayport outputs

Gigabyte has announced yet another ATI based card, the HD 4870 with 1GB of memory. The new GV-R487D5-1GB will feature non-reference cooling, stock frequencies and DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI outputs on its backplate.

The new HD 4870 will be cooled by Zalman's dual heatpipe cooler which takes two slots and will work at 750MHz for the GPU and 3,600MHz for 1GB of GDDR5 memory. Other specs include support for DirectX 10.1, ATI's CrossfireX an a 256-bit memory interface. Gigabyte decided to place an HDMI, DisplayPort and DVI outputs on this card making it basically future proof and ready for any monitor or TV that you might have or will have.

The card should be available soon but the price still remains a mystery.