I know the card is good, I guess we'll just to wait and see how much the card is going to cost and how quite it is.

Don't bother. Just buy a reference card, install aftermarket cooler of choice and overclock.

I must agree, thats what I did. I bought one sapphire 4850, another one from gigabyte. Then I installed AC Accelero S1 Rev2 coolers on both, and boy do they run good and cool. The best part is, you can place a fan over the VRM that gets really hot with other coolers.


My idle temps are 46/45/50/48, GPU/DISPIO/MEMIO/SHADERCORE, read from GPU-Z. And ambient temp is pretty high now @27C so will be fun to see how cool they´ll be on the fall or winter....

Anyone with a 4850, i recommend the Acccelero S1 R2 as one of the best coolers for the card, because I have tried many with bad results, or not bad, but not great either. These coolers are the best to this date for me. They are big, so will only fitt in tower cases, no HTPC´s im afraid. I dont know how it would work on a 4870.

EDIT: Oh btw, load temps very seldom go over 60c

Good card and very well thought out by Gainward. But, no money .