*Official* ATI Radeon HD4850X2 Thread

[Open1Your1Eyes0]

I will be posting an owners list very soon. Make sure that all owners posting in this thread have their system up to date saying that they own this card and I will add you to the list. I will also post some pictures of the card itself and how i have it installed in my computer. I'll keep everyone updated.

[Nirran]

ll keep you updated when I get the card. Looks like it'll arrive Friday since it hasn't shipped yet. I got the drivers off of sapphire's website since I seen ati's don't work.

[skunksmash]

Great thread & card!

i thought the 4850x2 was currently out performing the GTX280 in some cases..??, by that reasoning it must beat the GTX260 out right..?? does it not..??

[Open1Your1Eyes0]

Originally Posted by skunksmash

Great thread & card!

i thought the 4850x2 was currently out performing the GTX280 in some cases..??, by that reasoning it must beat the GTX260 out right..?? does it not..??

The HD4850X2 is out performing the GTX280 in actually almost everything that allows two GPUs. However my motherboard is bottlenecking me because I have PCI-express 1.0. Fitting two PCI-express 2.0 cards on one PCI-express 1.0 slot is like trying to shove two giant pipes in one thin pipe. So you can understand it's kinda slower. Also this card is very new so drivers are still unsupported. Even ATI's official drivers don't see the card at all. I will soon be getting a new P45 motherboard so I will post new benchmarks/results when I get it.

[skunksmash]

thanks.....

[daellum67]

http://service.futuremark.com/result...&resultType=19

i got my new board in today, there is my tri fire result, still on the sempron. should be getting my 9950 back from RMA soonish so i can bench with that. additionally, the eta on my deneb 940 preorder is december 30th, so add shipping to that and maybe jan 1st-2nd for some respectable results off of these cards.

[Nelson2011]

I have a sapphire 4870 when i want to crossfire should i get the 4850x2 or another 4870 the price in only 100 bucks difference

[daellum67]

if you are running an x38 or an x48, then i'd go for the x2. if your 4870 is a 512meg model, all you need is the 1gb 4850x2 and you'll be set.

you'd probably want to clock your q a bit higher though.

[Open1Your1Eyes0]

daellum67 said it best. Pretty much all you need to know. You will benefit from getting the HD4850X2 in most cases but it's would be a good decision anyways. HD4850X2 is a great card.

[Nelson2011]

Im going to get an x48 and my 4870 is 512 model. May send it back and get a 1gb