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Wow....
really nice info Hj...

this can help many people.

thanks so much HJ

i like that MSI 4850..
maybe i'll buy that someday, if i'm ready to build new rig...maybe in january or feb.

hey i got this from Newegg it is one of there black Friday sales

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... _-14102810

$259.99
Your Price: $199.99
With Promo Code
EMCBBCJBG

even though right now it says auto notify must made a huge sale out of this. and it is for today only to now if i had the cash i would not mind and try 1 of these. and then use my 8800 for the physicX. uhm i wonder if that could be done?

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?

Yes I just got two of these to put in my new rig. SAPPHIRE 100244L Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express. I just love Ati cards. I was a nVidia junkie for years and when I build a computer for my son to run his xbox360 HD drive. The nVidia cards didn't work. Oh they said that they support HD but they didn't. I had a intel board and used that with a ati 1950pro card and he was watch videos. I have seen alot of people having problems nVidia.

The new rig so far is:
GIGABYTE GA-EX58-DS4 LGA 1366 Intel X58
G.SKILL 3GB (3 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel
Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core
SILVERSTONE ST70F 700W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS
2 - SAPPHIRE 100244L Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express
Antec 900 gaming case
Asus 18x DVD
Plextor DVD/RW-DL
2 - 320GB HHD
3-1/2 Floppy

Alot of the new motherboards coming out support both crossfire and Sli. I don't know if you can even install two different brand cards. I think you can use different size cards but they have to be the same brand. Like a 512mb & 256mb. But two different brands I don't know I might have do a little research on that.

I just found this and one thing that I forgot about was that you might have driver problems.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1425294

Well my i7 crash today and it was one of the Video cards. I was installing a program and it said I had to reboot. On the reboot I got the blue screen of death. I could boot into safemode so that was tell me it was hardware or driver problem not Vista. I had the cards in crossfire and I took the 1st card out and moved the 2nd card up and everything was fine. For now I have my 2 - 3870 512mb in everything is fine. That card always ran hot from day one about 48c in idle. I took the good card and put in my intel copmuter and it is running at 34c at idle.