HD4850X2 about to hit the town!

[Plasma_Snake]

Looks like AMD-ATi have their goal set as to p@wn the Nvidia cards off the face of the planet. Latest card in their already booming arsenal is HD4850X2. It will be in direct competition with 9800GX2.

Already at the presentation of the HD4870 X2 has been open about a little sister in the form of the HD4850 X2 spoken and their appearance shortly after the HD4870 X2 suspects. Now the map in the coming weeks, in time for Christmas, on the shelves of dealers are. Thus, the new card, the 1GB of GDDR3 per GPU should benefit now from the board partners "validated", as colleagues from X-bit Labs Sasha Marinkovic, AMD's senior product marketing manager, quote.
According to announcements from AMD, it 350-399 for ~ U.S. $ in the market.

Read more here.

[hellgate]

it seems like nvidia is going to hav a tough time ahead.

[Plasma_Snake]

AMD-ATi is sure lookin' for some serious payback!

[lywyre]

Good news that ATi and AMD making Intel and nVidia work harder for us . Here is (click) how FarCry 2 fares with 17 cards including HD4850X2 and 9800X2.

Source Again: http://www.guru3d.com/article/far-cr...mance-review/1

[comp@ddict]

Originally Posted by lywyre

Good news that ATi and AMD making Intel and nVidia work harder for us . Here is (click) how FarCry 2 fares with 17 cards including HD4850X2 and 9800X2.

Source Again: http://www.guru3d.com/article/far-cr...mance-review/1

Err, where's HD4850X2 there??????

[NIGHTMARE]

its gr8

[comp@ddict]

It's to be here by November

Letz hope it performs better than 2x4850 in CFX and better than GTX280 too!

[x3060]

really bad times for nvidia, its pay back time baby!!!!
i don't like dual solutions though, regardless of whos winning or not...

[VarDOS]

yeah ATI is beating nVIDIA...

but in our town nobody knows ATI HD4850

[Faun]

^^irony

[IronManForever]

^^ Applies for me too.

Most of my Pals don't know what a Graphics card does. Many dont know Dual core/Quad core benefits. They dont know what a processor is. They still feel Pentium 4 the latest stuff (and for them the whole system Box is the P4). They don't know GHz stands for speed. To them, what follows Pentium(3,4,5, etc) is what decides. Neither do they know what RAM does and do not understand the term Primary storage. And of course they wont care if AMD/Linux/Mac exists; neither do they know that they DO exist.

One of my friends, (I have a P4 class Celeron with black cabby monitor, etc. and he has P3 with all white components) said that one can know from the looks of it wether a PC is P3 or P4. A white monitor+cabby+keyboard stands for P3; whereas Black ones are there in P4.

Thats the PRIME reason that drives me to use this forum and internet for hours everyday. I need someone to do tech-talk.


Ontopic:

Originally Posted by x3060

i don't like dual solutions though, regardless of whos winning or not...

I second that. Even I aint a fan of those Dual-High-Enders. A 4650 or at most 4850 would be all I'll ever want.

[NIGHTMARE]

Man its bad phase for nvidia this year is already booked for ATI

[hellgate]

Originally Posted by IronManForever

^^ Applies for me too.

Most of my Pals don't know what a Graphics card does. Many dont know Dual core/Quad core benefits. They dont know what a processor is. They still feel Pentium 4 the latest stuff (and for them the whole system Box is the P4). They don't know GHz stands for speed. To them, what follows Pentium(3,4,5, etc) is what decides. Neither do they know what RAM does and do not understand the term Primary storage. And of course they wont care if AMD/Linux/Mac exists; neither do they know that they DO exist.

One of my friends, (I have a P4 class Celeron with black cabby monitor, etc. and he has P3 with all white components) said that one can know from the looks of it wether a PC is P3 or P4. A white monitor+cabby+keyboard stands for P3; whereas Black ones are there in P4.

Thats the PRIME reason that drives me to use this forum and internet for hours everyday. I need someone to do tech-talk.

only 2 of my frnds r techies, the rest r like urs.
the worst of this is,if they come to u asking 4 suggestions and u suggest them some piece of hardware, they'll start arguing with u without knowing head or tail of that stuff/brand.

[Faun]

Originally Posted by IronManForever

4850 would be all I'll ever want.

Yup, as of now. But things may change.

If it comes into a bracket of 7k then its fine, let NVIDIA roll out something to compete.

[IronManForever]

^^ In the current scenario with the USD gaining strength, I doubt 4850 will fall within 7k bracket. And, by the time it DOES, I dont think anyone would buy it compared to newer faster/power-efficient products available.

Originally Posted by hellgate

only 2 of my frnds r techies, the rest r like urs.
the worst of this is,if they come to u asking 4 suggestions and u suggest them some piece of hardware, they'll start arguing with u without knowing head or tail of that stuff/brand.

Lucky guy. I barely have 1 friend with whom I can talk. Joined MBBS this year. Lets see how good the new guys are. And BTW my friends dont argue; they take me as god. But thats a bit of problem as I have to go to them if they have some problems...

[hellgate]

^^^ they'll argue with me if i say that now ATi is performing better than nVidia or that at 1 time Athlons were better than P4's.

[comp@ddict]

I LOVE AMD

COme on, say along guys!!!

[ultimategpu]

Originally Posted by Varad Dilip Choudhari

yeah ATI is beating nVIDIA...

but in our town nobody knows ATI HD4850

ya i agree , in INDIA ATI 4*** series is not known to most of them ----

cause this XFX company made a severe sale in last 5 years of nvidia cards

upto HD 3870 ATI was in tougher days ------> launching the 4*** series of 4850 & 4870 ,, ATI was popular in INDIA and its now giving the tougher competition for all the nvidia brands

[pushkar]

I was an nVIDIA fanboy before but after 4850, I have changed my opinion and consider ATI very good.

[MetalheadGautham]

Talking about non tech friends, I am at a worse situation. I have this friend who is supposed to be a techie, but a n00b one, and with a huge ego. Just because he knew internals of computers long before I did, he refuses to accept that I do know quite a lot more than him. He still thinks DDR2 533MHz ram is mainstream. He thinks all of those compiz fusion pics I showed him are photoshopped, because he can't see them running on my PC (obviously, since my rig is not powerful enough). He gets angry whenever he sees someone disable aero from windows vista and replace it wi+th the wi+ndow+s classic theme, saying that nothing but looks matter. He thinks I am a n00b because I find windows vista hard to use. He is a born pirate, and is actually PROUD of cracking software. He proudly exclaims that he has cracks for software worth several lakhs and he has installed them all. He thinks ripping movies is a hard to do job, much more difficult than my work of creating a custom debian derivative distro, and that ripping is an art and there exist a few people in the world who can rip better than him. He never admits it, but he gets really influenced by movies. Finally, he is really obese has flabs everywhere, and has a very bad language and lacks social etiquette, but is determined to believe that girls find him attractive to look at.

[ultimategpu]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

Talking about non tech friends, I am at a worse situation. I have this friend who is supposed to be a techie, but a n00b one, and with a huge ego. Just because he knew internals of computers long before I did, he refuses to accept that I do know quite a lot more than him. He still thinks DDR2 533MHz ram is mainstream. He thinks all of those compiz fusion pics I showed him are photoshopped, because he can't see them running on my PC (obviously, since my rig is not powerful enough). He gets angry whenever he sees someone disable aero from windows vista and replace it wi+th the wi+ndow+s classic theme, saying that nothing but looks matter. He thinks I am a n00b because I find windows vista hard to use. He is a born pirate, and is actually PROUD of cracking software. He proudly exclaims that he has cracks for software worth several lakhs and he has installed them all. He thinks ripping movies is a hard to do job, much more difficult than my work of creating a custom debian derivative distro, and that ripping is an art and there exist a few people in the world who can rip better than him. He never admits it, but he gets really influenced by movies. Finally, he is really obese has flabs everywhere, and has a very bad language and lacks social etiquette, but is determined to believe that girls find him attractive to look at.

xcuse meee

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by ultimategpu

xcuse meee

What for ? Its not you and I don't even know you personally...

[IronManForever]

I seek performance+value for money+need. I never was a fanboy. If ATi's better I'll go for it and advise ppl to do so as well.

OFFTOPIC:

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

Talking about non tech friends, I am at a worse situation. I have this friend who is supposed to be a techie, but a n00b one, and with a huge ego. Just because he knew internals of computers long before I did, he refuses to accept that I do know quite a lot more than him. He still thinks DDR2 533MHz ram is mainstream. He thinks all of those compiz fusion pics I showed him are photoshopped, because he can't see them running on my PC (obviously, since my rig is not powerful enough). He gets angry whenever he sees someone disable aero from windows vista and replace it wi+th the wi+ndow+s classic theme, saying that nothing but looks matter. He thinks I am a n00b because I find windows vista hard to use. He is a born pirate, and is actually PROUD of cracking software. He proudly exclaims that he has cracks for software worth several lakhs and he has installed them all. He thinks ripping movies is a hard to do job, much more difficult than my work of creating a custom debian derivative distro, and that ripping is an art and there exist a few people in the world who can rip better than him. He never admits it, but he gets really influenced by movies. Finally, he is really obese has flabs everywhere, and has a very bad language and lacks social etiquette, but is determined to believe that girls find him attractive to look at.

Wow! What you have is the last remaining inhabitant of Planet X43-Alpha..
1. Show him some version of Beryl on you rig, that should be enough to convince him of the effects.
2. Ask him to go to a computer store, making him feel that he's there to advise you; and then make him realise that DDR2-533 modules arent available at all. Take him to a store where you will get at the lowest 667 one. Many stores now do not have it, in fact.
3. Let him live with the Looks Matter thing. In fact, I do believe that Looks enhance the Usability alot.
4. You dont find Vista hard to use, do you? You have a lota experience with XP and a UAC disabled Vista will be easier to use IF you pay attention.
5. He may have Maya/3dsMax; you have Blender, why do you care. Show some of your work on Blender to him. And do tell him that you didnt breach anything while making it.
6. Pirates? Oh no, I have no advice for that. Even I do pirate. But I have nothing pirated other than XP for now. I do feel guilty though.
7. ASK him to impress a good-girl in class. He'll buy a treadmill next.

I know none of these work. Just said cuz I felt that I should. At least you have a techy friend. I dont even have anyone to argue.

BTW, lets carry this talk elsewhere. Its getting offtopic..
Here's a thread created by me just a few minutes ago to talk about such uncategorised stuff.

Lets post our problems, experiences, etc related to Life in general here!!

Regards,
IronMan.

[ultimategpu]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

What for ? Its not you and I don't even know you personally...

not for that ,, are good feel'in right ahhh??????

i am in a great doubt ,i cant even see 4850x2 in the website ???????????

can u show me the 4850x2 ???? thankx

[comp@ddict]

Exaktly What I Meant In The Beginning Itself!!!!!!!!

[x3060]

any updates, any test carried out?

[Plasma_Snake]

Yup! Sure Check 'em out
Sapphire HD4850X2 Tested
AMD's official Advert- I won't believe into their adverts as its company's marketing strategy to always show opponent card as weak one, so better wait for official benchmark results.
For people also wondering about Hybrid Crossfires, check this out.

[comp@ddict]

Here's the 3D MArk Vantage score !
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...10196&Itemid=1

[m-jeri]

hehehe....

Nvdia and ATi wars mean more to customers. They themselves are closing that gap between low-mid-high end Gfx cards. Looks like i be afterall buying the Gtx280 sooner than i expected.

Oh yeas. I am a nVidia. from my early days on.The Ruby somehow cant beat the green beast in me.

I work in tech...i studied tech..my peers knew tech.a lots are very well informed. Our main hobby is shop crashing. we go in groups to local dealers.give them a config. those buggers will change this and that.here are some of the best...

they say evga is not a company.
SC'ed cards??... 8600GT is the best...
Asus..gigabyte...MSI.. naah... Intel is the best..rest are very bad....I
Intel xtreme edition proccy...nah..there is no such proccy..only c2d and amd...
Water coolers... what u do with that???
G15 KBB .... we have the latest genius laser combo...very good...
Creative X-FI.... well in india there is no suplly... we have live 5.1 ...very good...
Cabins above 2k ???..that too cabby only... who would buy that???

I can go on and on... one day i would write a book and share....

[skippednote]

Maybe nvidia should throw out their 1xxx series as soon as possible...