tgdaily.com — AMD’s Radeon 4850 and 4870 have been widely praised in the media and put the ATI team back on the map. But it appears that we have just seen a small portion of what the ATI guys have in space for users. The new boards are actually running at well below the clock speed they can support and these cards will be challenging Nvidia's very best.
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tenoqJul 2, 2008
9800GTX was a good deal faster than the 8800GT - it was the second-coming of the same board, basically. That's common nVidia practice. Pricing in the US must be different to here, because there was no point buying the 8800GT when the 9800GTX came out. And the 8800 GTX/Ultra was still much dearer than the 9800GTX.
scottdamanJul 2, 2008
All I know is the idle temps of the 4850/70 is extremely high per the reviews I've seen.
threemagicJul 2, 2008
ATI cards, as anyone in the know would know, are better at 2d than most Nvidia cards so they work better for FC and such. Anyway.. I can boot to Vista64 directly.. just like you.
mrbitchJul 2, 2008
This is one aspect that ATI has always beat Nvidia over : Image Quality & HD TV Out capabilities.I seriously doubt that ATI would drop the ball in that department with their latest cards.
yodajonesJul 2, 2008
ATI Rocks! And they support Linux. You go dudes.
sos84Jul 2, 2008
Maximum PC did a comparison some time ago comparing image quality and color and the ATI cards basically walked all over the Nvidia cards. I am a geographer and I deal with color constantly and accuracy matters, a lot. Very few people in my field choose Nvidia cards over ATI or Matrox and unless it comes bundled, nobody chooses Nvidia. I currently have two computers set up in my home office sharing monitors through a KVM switch. My work desktop has an ATI x800 GTO card in it and my gaming machine has an Nvidia 8800GTS 320MB in right now. Running on the same monitors, I can attest that the x800 trumps the 8800 in 2D image quality and color accuracy. My work computer formerly had an x600pro and an x1650pro in it and compared to the last card in the gaming rig which was a 7900GS, the ATI cards won out. I don't know if the drivers are optimized for FPS versus other functions because the same does not appear to be true for Nvidia's quadro series. The FireGl cards appear better but the difference is not as large.
ticklemyegoJul 4, 2008
Its $149 after mail-in-rebate. $199 original price - $20 instant with code VGA7320 and a $30 mail in rebate. Its on slickdeals.net. This is the card: <a class="user" href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?nm_mc=AFC-SlickDeals&cm_mmc=AFC-SlickDeals-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA&Item=N82E16814125224">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?nm_mc=A ...</a>
ertw2011Jul 4, 2008
Ive always bought ATI because its Canadian and it was the first card I ever bought(Radeon7000 PCI and still have it) when i built my first computer. I hated having to buy an Nvida card 3 month ago because ATI offered nothing good in my price range. Iam glad to see ATI doing well again.
wiggy420Jul 10, 2008
daam i own a 8800gt - jst got it lol!! , now im switching to ATI again after i replaced my X1950 Pro ATI RULES!