An Early Peek At AMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2 148
Dr. Damage writes "AMD has quite a hit in the Radeon HD 4000 series. Coming up next is a product code-named R700, a high-end graphics card based on two 4870s paired together. TechReport has a preliminary look at how the card — to be called the Radeon HD 4870 X2 — performs. Nvidia could have one heck of a fight on its hands."
Crysis benchmarks are very good (Score:4, Insightful)
Why do you think it is too hot? (Score:5, Insightful)
You have a misconception about what temperatures should be. They should be whatever the manufacturer rates the part at. Not all parts have problems with high temperatures. My 8800 runs at about 90C and has done so for a long time, still works great.
Have some faith in the companies to test this. They have it run hot because it can run hot without ill effects.
Re:Video card prices vs Mac prices (Score:4, Insightful)
Calling people stupid for buying a 1500$ Mac is okay but calling people stupid for buying a 400$ videocard is troll.
Typical slashdot.
Re:4800 running too hot? (Score:2, Insightful)
*Doing this mod disables active fan control on your card. The fan will run at the set percentage of its full speed all the time. Setting that number too low can result in overheating and permanent damage to you card. Mod at your own risk.
Once again, games do not support drivers. (Score:1, Insightful)
Nor do drivers support games. Drivers support the OS and the API. The only thing a game supports is the API and the OS.
Re:Video card prices vs Mac prices (Score:3, Insightful)
Changed my password, some fucker was using my account. Sorry for the crap he/she wrote.
Me too!
Man, my impersonator was a real jerk. Nothing but lucid, excellent posts from now on.
Re:Video card prices vs Mac prices (Score:1, Insightful)
You need to understand that some people use the computer for stuff that goes a bit beyond sending granny some emails or browsing myspace, for stuff where some computational muscle does in fact make some difference. Some enjoy playing recent computer games, which are very GPU-intensive, and some even need to have a high-powered machine to do number-crunching tasks for which they are paid for. For that class of users, powerful computing components are needed, components whose cost is proportional to the price.
On the other hand, the price of any apple computer is not proportional to it's computing power. It is exclusively related to how fashionable it is and how unnatainable it is for the masses (see veblen goods [wikipedia.org]). Further than that there is absolutely no justification for the price Apple charges for their hardware. It is as justifiable as those 300 euro nike sneakers.