Damn. Maybe I should've gotten this instead of the VisionTek 4850...

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http://www.pcvonline.com/productDetails.aspx?id=7244

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Same price that I paid, but the core is overclocked to 950 MHz (+ 25 MHz), and memory is up to 1140 MHz (+ 147 MHz :eek:), AND it has a dual-slot cooler.
 
iBP_James said:
That picture makes it look suspiciously like an X1900XTX. :p
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I agree. Why would AMD go back to using an old old old cooler when it has way better ones now. Haven't seen that cooler since the x100 and x1000 days.
 
-Tetsuo- said:
That cooler is VERY loud.
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yes it is, but also VERY effective. i had an X1800XT with that cooler and it allowed for a pretty significant overclock and kept the card nice and cool. I remember putting my hand at the back of my case and feeling HOT air coming from that card. IMO it's a great cooler (at the cost of noise).
 
It looks like they fixed the clocks on the listing. The picture is probably incorrect.
 
Porter_ said:
yes it is, but also VERY effective. i had an X1800XT with that cooler and it allowed for a pretty significant overclock and kept the card nice and cool. I remember putting my hand at the back of my case and feeling HOT air coming from that card. IMO it's a great cooler (at the cost of noise).
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Very true, that thing pushed out a LOT of hot air. If i cranked the fan speed up the thing would idle at like 40 C.
 
It's probably just a stock photo that the website's just using. The only thing that a buyer has to think it's a dual slot cooler is that picture, after all.
 
I don't think so. They probably just used an old stock photo for the card itself.

I would wait and see what it really looks like before purchasing.
 
Frankly, the whole site and the vendor seem very questionable...I can't imagine a seller with any vailidity whatsoever having that poor of an "English" translation. The 'fishing' for "...mispellings and bad grammar..." in their site review seems odd as well.

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That must be the Radeon X4850 XTX PE edition. The resale value on those things is crazy. I'd buy the whole lot and put it on eBay...
 
barek said:
Frankly, the whole site and the vendor seem very questionable...I can't imagine a seller with any vailidity whatsoever having that poor of an "English" translation. The 'fishing' for "...mispellings and bad grammar..." in their site review seems odd as well.

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They are fine - they have an actual storefront at Yonge and Bloor in Toronto; and have been there for years - and other multiple locations as well.
 
heck i've got a few of those coolers lying around. i wonder if they'll fit on a 3850 256.
 
Why does it say core/Shader speed? It looks like the site is making up numbers to try to sell more cards.

SAPPHIRE VCX HD 4850 512M DDR3 LITE 650MHz/850MHz/1140MHz core/shader/memory clock speeds, 20.8 GTexel/s (32 TMU x 0.65 GHz) fill-rate
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I thought that was a joke lol. Yes that cooler is definitely loud but it does perform well. But I would never overclock it with the fan at 100 percent... tooo loud. When I had an x1800xt I immediately upgraded to an accelero which cooled about the same maybe better and was dead silent.
 
If you snagged the VisionTek at BB for 150 just throw a zalman on the card.
 
they list the 4870 as well, same stock photo. I doubt Sapphire would stick to and old cooler design.
 
On the Lam said:
They are fine - they have an actual storefront at Yonge and Bloor in Toronto; and have been there for years - and other multiple locations as well.
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Yea I bought my monitor from them, usually pretty decent prices.
 
Lol, the vendor is good, I built my pc 2 years back with that v-card lol :p, but ya they have a fair bit of stores in the Toronto area, so if you are from there, you could just go pick it up in person.
 
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