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4850 GDDR5? What video card for $100?

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I just saw this video card on newegg.

$100.00 4850 with 512MB of GDDR5 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

My friend is about to upgrade from a 9400 GT 512MB GDDR2 so he needs a new video card. He's lookin at the $100-$130 or so price range, and I seen the 4850's are the best bang for your buck.

What's with this video card? I have never seen this before, would it be good to buy? I heard it 4870 with slower clock speeds.

Let me know which video card to buy.
Graphics card Master

Interesting, thats the first 4850 i have seen with GDDR5, they usually come with GDDR3 because otherwise they are just a 4870 with lower clock speeds and you can OC it to the same performance as a 4870. Im going to check it out on the Sapphire site to make sure its not just an error on newegg.

Edit: I cant find it anywhere on the sapphire site, they might just be downclocking older 4870s to 4850 levels and trying to clear them out.
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Graphics card Master

Are you sure about that? DDR5 is actually in the product number;
100245DDR5L
If you google that you'll see it listed on a number of other sites, all saying it has DDR5.
Graphics card Master

All the sites only link back to newegg, if it was on tiger direct too then i might believe it, but its like the i5 760 newegg has listed right now that they made up specs for and said it was 32nm and had hyper threading for several days.
Graphics card Master

Pay close attention to that shopping.com page, note that they do not sell anything themselves, the link to other online etailers, and where do they link you to for that particular card?

Only to newegg.

Well, at this point I'd say it's not a miss-print, though not providing the clock(s) is a little disconcerting.

I would hope at least the core is 625Mhz (ref), while the memory clock is probably something different, as DDR3 is reference at 993 MHz (1986 DDR), and the 4870 is 1800 MHz (3600 DDR). So it’s probably somewhere between that, making the memory band-width almost certainly higher than the4850 63Gb/sec; though wouldn’t expect it to be a much a 4870’s 115Gb/sec.

The question would be is this a good OC’r... man that’s a crap-shoot. Even if you could find even 5-10% that’s still 650-685MHz, not really close to the 4870’s 750MHz (or 10-12% under the ref 4870). With the price currently of $80 (–AR$10) it’s a really hard sell, given there’s a "pedestrian" Asus 4870 right today for $90 (working a $30 rebate). If that 4870 disappears and we get someone to post confirmation of spec and clocks, I might consider this to be a good deal cause other 4870's are more often $140
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