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#1. Posted at 06:25 AM on Feb 16th 2009

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Gerbil Jedidiah

It's good to see AMD has a trick up their sleeve to compete with Nvidia's latest onslaught of new cards. If the 4890 is 20 to 30% faster than the 4870 they'll at least take the lead back from the GTX 260, and probably force a price drop on the GTX 285.

#1, Competition is a great and wonderful thing. Go AMD!!! : LovermanOwens (#2) «

#1, I had thought the single-GPU "Lead" was currently held by th... : Zymergy (#5) «

#5, I think he means that if you only compare the 4870 to the... : jdaven (#7) «

#7, Yes, I did mean to compare the 4890 to the 260(216SPs)... : Gerbil Jedidiah (#9) «

#7, The 4870 1G beats the 260gtx core 216 in most games.He... : Konstantine (#13) «

#1, theres no way a 13% overclock will result in a 20 not to men... : toyota (#10) «

#10, But it will likely result in the GTX 260 falling behind r... : Meadows (#11) «

#10, The chip has more SP units. : dragmor (#12) «

#12, There's also no way almost everything they say is goin... : OneArmedScissor (#15) «

#15, That is one of the major disappointments with GT200... : ish718 (#16) «

#8. Posted at 12:14 PM on Feb 16th 2009

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My Johnson

I tripped out on that Cooling Innovations HS. I remember back in the day when HS's with pins were all the rage.

#8, haha. this was done YEARS ago, until heatpipes beat them out... : willyolio (#14) «

#6. Posted at 11:37 AM on Feb 16th 2009

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ssidbroadcast

Wow, Type3 sounds pretty ambitious. I'd like to know more about that Cone Mapping, though. Sounds neat.

#4. Posted at 10:38 AM on Feb 16th 2009

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adisor19

That Alfa 500mW 802.11g USB 2.0 adapter is GOD like !

I recommend it for anyone looking to fix their WiFi signal problems.

Adi

#3. Posted at 07:00 AM on Feb 16th 2009

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Farting Bob

I was getting worried that ATI/AMD were taking it easy in the high end after launching the 4870 last summer. OK stick 2 on the same card, but thats not an ideal solution.
Meanwhile nvidia after being slapped silly early on and being forced to slash prices and rename the shit out of their old chips has now got some good cards at competitive prices from the mid-high and up market.
The mid to low end is still very much AMD though, and likely will be until nvidia makes a new chip thats cheaper to produce, rather than depend on older chips that were never designed to sell at those prices.