On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:06:34AM -0600, William Robb scripsit: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graydon" > Subject: Re: OT: Graphics cards >> It's a basically stock Radeon 4850, but the cooler is something new from >> Saphire; see >> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/04/16/review_graphics_sapphire_vapor_x_hd_4850/ > > Well, being the idiot that I am, I just ordered the next one up by > mistake...... > > Sapphire VAPOR-X Radeon HD 4870 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E VGA HDMI DVI-I Video Card
A 4870 is still in the good part of the price-performance curve. If you're ordered a 4890 I'd have worried. > Hopefully my 800 watt power supply will be enough for it. If it's really 800 watts, you're going to be fine (unless your RAID card is driven by electrically-heated steam, anyway. :) If you want to reassure yourself: http://ati.amd.com/products/certified/powersupplies.html That's the list of power supplies certified for single card operation. > Thanks for all the help on this. You're most welcome. It happens to be something I know a little bit about. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
