Hmm, I picked up a Palit 8800GT about 6 months ago that came with a non reference cooler that was just RUBBISH (very loud, constantly on, no PWM), I replaced it with a nice zalman one in the end.
Anyway, it left kind of a bad taste in my mouth as far as Palit are concerned, nice to see their ATI side is looking good.
Originally Posted by phuzz Hmm, I picked up a Palit 8800GT about 6 months ago that came with a non reference cooler that was just RUBBISH (very loud, constantly on, no PWM), I replaced it with a nice zalman one in the end.
Anyway, it left kind of a bad taste in my mouth as far as Palit are concerned, nice to see their ATI side is looking good.
hey you mean admins, someone put a line through what i said, so i figured the typo was fixed. it isnt, the typo just has an extra letter now, sorry to be a pain over something so small
Originally Posted by mrb_no1 hey you mean admins, someone put a line through what i said, so i figured the typo was fixed. it isnt, the typo just has an extra letter now, sorry to be a pain over something so small
Originally Posted by bjrcboy Any chance you can let me know how loud the card was?
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The heatsink design is not a familiar one, but it combines a 70mm variable speed fan with an array of aluminium fins that are connected to a copper base via two nickel plated heatpipes. It's a dual slot design and for the most part the fan remains quiet, spinning slowly even under extended 3D load in games like Crysis.
I don't think it's as quiet as the HIS/Powercolor at idle, but at load it's easily quieter than the HIS and probably a dead heat with the Powercolor.
Hm... Is the reference design 4-phase or 2-phase? From the pictures of it it seems like it's a 4-phase design but there are a couple of websites which says the reference is a 2-phase design?
you can connect S-video directly to the card, but there's no Component (because of the lack of the dongle), but you can use one that you got with a previous purchase if you have one.
Reference card have 2-phase power supply for GPU not four. It's uses uP6201 - Dual-Phase Synchronous-Rectified Buck Controller.
It's have two chokes per phase in parallel.
SONIC is with much better power supply (3-phase).
Originally Posted by Brainless Reference card have 2-phase power supply for GPU not four. It's uses uP6201 - Dual-Phase Synchronous-Rectified Buck Controller.
It's have two chokes per phase in parallel.
SONIC is with much better power supply (3-phase).
Thanks for signing up to post this information. I've also had confirmation back from AMD and the reference design is indeed two chokes per phase - I've updated the review to reflect this fact.
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Reply???????????any info on the tweak
possible typo in 1st para of final thoughts, 3rd line and something about oc'ing memory a "big further", obviously should be bit.- thanks, fixed.peace
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Anyway, it left kind of a bad taste in my mouth as far as Palit are concerned, nice to see their ATI side is looking good.
Was it one similar to this one on the 9600 GT Sonic we used in our £400 gaming PC? Linky: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/06/11/building-a-400-gaming-pc/2
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Haha, sorry, it should be fixed properly now. :\
I don't think it's as quiet as the HIS/Powercolor at idle, but at load it's easily quieter than the HIS and probably a dead heat with the Powercolor.
the Radeon HD 4870 1GB is listed as the 512MB
Svideo or Component?
It's have two chokes per phase in parallel.
SONIC is with much better power supply (3-phase).
Thanks for signing up to post this information. I've also had confirmation back from AMD and the reference design is indeed two chokes per phase - I've updated the review to reflect this fact.
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