Massive price drops in newegg check it out

guys check out the 4800 series in newegg, they are all at very low prices...

xfx 4850 dual slot double lifetime warranty $105
powercolor 4870 512mb $125
xfx 1 gb 4870 dual slot double lifetime warranty $150
powercolor 4890's at $185 and Xfx 4890 $200.



soooo tempting!!!... i hope these prices stay for 4 more days so i can get something new D

I just wasnt sure when theyd pull the trigger
http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-pl [...] l?doc=7173

I'm waiting for their mid range DX11 GPUs. It's too bad that they severely underestimated demand for their 4770s though as they could have made a bit more money if they hadn't.

I'm not sure they underestimated demands so much as they were unable to get the yields they wanted. Better to get the bugs out of the way with the 4770 instead of the 5870 though..

this is great news, time for an upgrade

might be time to update my 7800GTX sli

^+1 Definitely Agree to that.

$127....1GB...4870...So tempting...I need more convincing though...Its one of those too good to be true deals...Plus what will I do with my 8800GT...I got a nice Accellero S2 cooler on it too...

^ yeah but what person who isn't an idiot buys powercolor?

So, while i know i should probably not be lazy and just start a new thread, i am in fact lazy.

If i currently have a 9600gt and wish to replace it with the 4870 would that...

1: Be a decent upgrade? (the 9600gt would not go to waste, it would go to a friend to replace her 9400gt)

and

2: ...would all i have to do is remove the Nvidia drivers prior to physically changing the card?

~This is on windows XP. AMD 5600+ @ 3.2, 4gig geil, RW 550w psu

also, at the risk of sounding like an idiot again, helloworld_98, i couldn't understand your wording... is powercolor a decent brand or no?

Yeah i was going to do that when i get home =P

if the 4870 won't work the 4850's are still a decent upgrade for a 9600.

I know it's the RW 500, though i don't know if it's the SLI or not. *shrug*

I just went newegg and noticed this, in 3 days 2 1gb 4870's will be arriving at my house Muhahahaha!!!!

Im about to jump on this these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814131148

I dont wanna get powercolor, but that heatsink looks like it would be awesome if i removed the shroud and let my 260cfm side panel (4X140mm fans ) cool it....

I trust xfx as a brand more, and totally would like to only spend 127$ , but that 1gb 4870 uses a stock cooler, which wont benefit from the tornado that is my case. (also i would much rather buy from neweg than "super biz" )

Any quick advice before i pull ze trigga?

lol looks like some are selling out... oh well...

hey bildo, i've heard that if you use the 2 molex to a pci-e it is good for short term but not for long term, is this true?

i would imagine a 4870 would get bottlenecked, but not the 4850... at least i wouldn't think...? the thing is OC'd to 3.2 something..which i know isn't amazingly fantastic but it's not that bad either. it's the same core (windsor) and same clock now as a 6400+

I didn't think it would... but, i'm glad it was brought up so now i know for sure =D

Sounds like a rumor to me. Especially considering the manufacturer of the card provides these (not a 3rd party thing). Depending on your PSU though (if it has more than one 12V rail, there are some with a single GIANT 12V rail) I heard its best to connect each molex connector from a different cable coming out of the PSU, that way you split the load across the rails. Either way It's what I'm gonna do with my ThermalTake PurePower 500W PSU and my incoming 4870.