On the standard single-slot Sapphire card, yes. I have one and I'm using RivaTuner to apply a fan speed table. That said, fan speed is weird on this card. It defaults to 3%, which is painfully loud. When you lower it to 2%, it's more tolerable, but still easy to hear for SPCR members ;) At 1%, the f...

josephclemente wrote:I read somewhere that someone installed an S1 by bending all of the fins on the end 90 degrees. I haven't seen any pictures of an install yet... Anyone here try this yet?

It's four posts above yours.

YOU HAVE RAMSINKS ON YOUR HDD CAGE.

While you technically might be handling the thing correctly... You have ramsinks on your HDD cage.

That is far from normal

Please don't get me wrong, but this case is absolutely horrible and you shouldn't spend any more time and money to get rid of its shortcomings. You can't polish a turd, as the old saying goes. I neved understood the obsession with Lian Li cases. They might look pretty on the outside, but constructio...

Use Windows, run RealTemp, see how it's like there.

X-bit Labs reviewed the GV-R485MC-1GI.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/ ... 0-1gb.html

Print version: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/ ... 0-1gb.html

It's probably the onboard audio. Disable it in the BIOS and go "watch" something.

Wake me up when the 80GB X25-M costs less than 100€. Then I just might consider it

X25-M?

I can haz 450€?

If one HR-03 fits, then the mounting holes are 43mm apart, just like on the 4670

Why would ATI decide to space the holes further and eliminate absolutely all 3rd-party (and existing) coolers?

I just want to remind people that the GPU sits closer to the rear of the card compared to most other cards, and that the distance between the mounting holes are different to the 4800 cards . The underside of the HD 4770 512MB doesn’t really hold anything of interest other than the retention brack...

I think that's the point - he lives in a place where prices are high.

FWIW, the Sapphire 4770 appeared on some Croatian retailers and is listed at around $160; nobody has the cards yet, but past experiences tell me that this amount will go up once the cards arrive, probably to around $180-190 or so.

You will never, ever be able to buy cards that have the cooler like on the cards given to reviewers (SPCR included).

The PCB also differs. Retail cards have missing elements.

They got a reference card. That probably changes things a bit :( Interesting card. Might be an awesome upgrade over the 4670, depending on how well it can be cooled passively. S1/S2 probably won't fit, the HR-03 might, but it's unlikely that you can use RAM heatsinks on it (are they even needed on G...

silo, darling, not everyone uses 2560x1600 monitors.

No, that's the card.

Maybe they did it on purpose...?

Nope, it's more... I scaled the 4850 pic to roughly fit over the 47x0 one in an image editor. Taking into account the hole spacing on the 47x0 (43mm, as it was on the 46x0 cards), I estimate the horizontal offset of the GPU between the two cards to be about 16-17mm. Hard to tell. Edit: I've tried al...

Here's a couple of images from Guru3D.

4750 preview:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd ... view-test/

Cooler and back of the PCB:
http://www.guru3d.com/imageview.php?image=16634
http://www.guru3d.com/imageview.php?image=16635

It definitely doesn't look too promising

A thought just crossed my mind:

The GPU is to the left of the PCB. It's not in the middle or to the right.

Will 3rd-party passive coolers even fit on that thing?

Why? What's the point? What is it useful for?

80W and a power connector...

Bleh.

Capsaicin wrote:

...the penultimate material for thermal conductivity has been turned into thermal paste...

So, it's the next to best material for thermal conductivity? What's the best?

Toothpaste! http://www.dansdata.com/goop.htm

I lived in London for the past 10 years and nobody, NOBODY I have ever watched crossing the roads, has put attention on whether the traffic lights show green or red. Meaning, they decided to cross the road upon the traffic and not on the traffic lights. I did that many times, until a policeman near...

So what? We are all going to die even without being killed

I'd be perfectly happy with an affordable Solo (instead of it having a 100€ price tag).

My problem is that I have no idea how loud my drives are compared to modern ones.

Maybe you got a bad drive?

I am still officially clueless about which drives to buy. I need two, for RAID-1. All HDDs die sooner or later, so that's the only thing I will consider. I still do backups, but full imaging to a second drive at least once per week... Just no. Right now, my computer holds a pair of 320 GB Hitachi T7...