Radeon HD-4870 1GB GDDR5...219.99!

[Looneybomber]

Hey guys, I forgot to post about this. Tigerdirect has these for 269.99 plus a 50.00 MIR until the end of the day.http://www.tigerdirect.com/app...=3669

I picked one up. It should be here in a few days...Along with everything else (including case) to build a new comp based off the Phenom 9950 processor. I'm excited!

[MinisterofDOOM]

Man I hate having an AGP mobo!

[Hijacker]

Wow...I ordered all of my stuff on the 22nd, so I guess I missed out on that. My pair only cost me about 275 a piece.

BTW, you'll find that you can only fit 2 of those to your mobo if you want to run crossfirex. I was thinking of getting a third down the road, but the 4870 is such a large card, there isn't any room for a third card.

[szh]

Man I hate having an AGP mobo!

I share your pain with my PC at home.

My work systems make up for it though.

Z

[Looneybomber]

Wow...I ordered all of my stuff on the 22nd, so I guess I missed out on that. My pair only cost me about 275 a piece.

BTW, you'll find that you can only fit 2 of those to your mobo if you want to run crossfirex. I was thinking of getting a third down the road, but the 4870 is such a large card, there isn't any room for a third card.

Nah, I'm only planning on running one card. My mobo won't do dual x16, instead it will do dual x8 or x16 and x4.

But anyway, my current rig has 1gb ram, A64 3800, and Nvidia 6800gs...or maybe gt. My new one will have 4gb ram (Win XP max), Phenom 9950, and this card. I should be fine since I don't play the lastest and greatest games.

[Hijacker]

I thought you said in my thread you were doing the same mobo as mine. It supports crossfire in dual x16 mode, or for triples, X16/x8/x8 or quad x8

[Looneybomber]

Nope my mistake, we bought different Mobo's.

I bought the M3A78-T [3 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 (Dual x8 or Dual x16/x4; Triple x8/x4/x8)]

It was 139.00 plus with the 9950 I got 30.00 off on the combo.Was the M3A79-T on sale?

*edit* I wanted the 79 board too, but saved a little cash with the 78 knowing I'd only use 1 vid card.

[Looneybomber]

Just thought I'd tell everyone that this card is big, but in my eMachine's mid tower case...and it's not a big mid tower at all, it will clear the HDD cage by about 1/4". So yeah, it fits!

[Hijacker]

Nope my mistake, we bought different Mobo's.

I bought the M3A78-T [3 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 (Dual x8 or Dual x16/x4; Triple x8/x4/x8)]

It was 139.00 plus with the 9950 I got 30.00 off on the combo.Was the M3A79-T on sale?

*edit* I wanted the 79 board too, but saved a little cash with the 78 knowing I'd only use 1 vid card.

The 79-T was on a bundle plan with the 9950. I saved about $25 ordering them bundled.

Your board is the 790GX chipset, using integrated graphics. It's a good board, and everyone touts the 790GX chipset as being a wonderful chipset. The 790FX is the same just minus the onboard graphics. Supposedly, according to the way Asus words it on their site, you can use the onboard graphics chip in crossfire mode with your HD4870. The onboard GPU is a Radeon HD3300, which is based off of the RV670 core, IIRC. There is an option to use a daughterboard to give the onboard GPU it's own DDR3 memory. Which is nice since usually onboard graphics require you utilize system memory.

[Looneybomber]

I wanted that 79-T board, but didn't see the combo deal. I'm not too concerned about my onboard graphics at all, even though it does say something about sideport 128MB DDR3

What I did want was the 79-T's 8 phase power delivery, where-as my board has a 4 phase...but now I'm cutting hairs.

I have the mobo and PSU in my new case that finally arrived today. I woiuld have it all done, but homework prevents that. Now I am getting ready to go to a jazz concert and write a paper over it. Maybe this weekend I'll get more done.