Best 4850?

[crazyguy_60]

Which of these two HD 4850's is best?
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?SAP-4850 or http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-4850

 

[Nik_I]

i've never heard of novatech video cards, but the one pictured looks exactly like the palit 4850, which is a very good card. it has a better cooler than the sapphire one, which is good not only for heat, but it also gives you more overclocking potential, as well as quieter operation.

 

[crazyguy_60]

so u would go with novatech one?

 

[The_Blood_Raven]

Go with a 4830 and overclock it to the 4850 speeds and gain the exact same performance for less.

 

[cjl]

Not quite - the 4830 has 640 stream processors, while the 4850 and 4870 have 800. Even at the same clock speed, the 4830 is slower.

 

[The_Blood_Raven]

Actually you are right, but it makes a very small difference. I found setting a 4830 to 650/2000 (625/1983 is a stock 4850) allowed it make up the difference. Those stream processors do almost nothing really, just needs a slight OC over a 4850 to match it.

 

[the last resort]

i once had a novatech card. it was a Radeon 9550 AGP, but my novatech and this novatech seem to be two different things.

 

[The_Blood_Raven]

I am pretty sure the "Novatech" card is a 4850 with a cooler some guy from the store put on it himself.

 

[crazyguy_60]

could someone please answer my question?

 

[The_Blood_Raven]

The cheaper one...

 

[Bowley]

I bought a 4850 from the Novatech store in Cardiff yesterday, it's arriving their for pick-up today. The sales person (who really knew his stuff) I spoke to said that this particular range of cards were bought from Sapphire in the final stages of production, and simply re branded at lower price but higher profit.

Hope that helps, Bowley.

 

[pr2thej]

How can you sell at a lower price for higher profit?

 

[Bowley]

The profit earned by a sapphire product sold in a novatech shop is split between sapphire and novatech.

the profit earned by a novatech product sold in a novatech shop is split between novatech and... novatech.

As the cooling systems of the two cards are very different, I can only assume there is more potential for profit between the two products there, that novatech has exploited.

 

[pr2thej]

would have to be a f*&ked up supplier agreement for that to be the case.

Bad necro either way /wristslap