Sapphire HD 4890 2GB Vapor-X Review Comment Thread

[SKYMTL]

Ever since it's release, ATI's HD 4890 has been going strong and companies have been quick to add their own custom flavors to the pot. In this review, we take a look at Sapphire's custom HD 4890 that packs a whooping 2GB of GDDR5 and their proprietary Vapor-X cooler along with a hefty price premium over a reference card.

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[bojangles]

Meh. I was really let down by this card for the fact that the cooling wasn't all that great. I'd love to see the results at 100% fan speed compared to a 100% stock blower. This card does have a lot of potential though. It just never showed it.

Awesome review. I do agree that the 4000 series and 200 series are a little long in the tooth. I can't wait for the new series to come out, even though we won't really need the processing power yet. Keep up the good work!

[Z Overlord]

what's the point of this? DX11 cards are out. I'm only keeping my 4890 until the price wars for DX11 happen.

[SKYMTL]

What's the point? The HD 4890 is going nowhere for AT LEAST 4 months. Do you expect companies will completely stop releasing DX10 cards just because two or three DX11 games are MAY be coming out in 3 months?

[Surfer_2099]

In all seriousness though...

How much quieter is the Vapor-X cooling solution than the standard coolers?

Canuck :)

[SKYMTL]

A hell of a lot quieter.

[ImAPC]

I was originally going to go with the 1GB Sapphire Vapor-X (870/4.2GHz) but many people warned me about there after purchase support and various other things...I personally would still have got the card but ended up getting the MSI Cyclone OC as a local store had one at the same price point as NCIX. I Love that card...great cooling and extremely quiet if using 65% or less fan (100% is INSANELY loud though, it's a 100mm fan). I know there was a review done of the SOC 1GHz edition of the cyclone here, SKY what's your take on these MSI offerings? Also are there any other programs I can use to test my overclock besides ATI tool? ATI tool just doesn't work, it freezes and I'v tried multiple versions. Whenever I run the auto tune in CCC it doesn't do anything wether im at stock or overclocked speeds...It works for about 20min and brings me back to factory settings but I can OC to 950Mhz/4.2GHz and play Warhead for hours and no problems...

[Nigolas]

Looks like a really nice cooler, too bad the card wasn't a good oc'r.

[Surfer_2099]

Agreed, but SkyMtl, would it be safe to extrapolate that the 1Gig ver of the Vapor-X 4890 should preform as well as and as quietly as the 2Gig ver?

Curious_Canuck :)

[SKYMTL]

Originally Posted by Surfer_2099

Agreed, but SkyMtl, would it be safe to extrapolate that the 1Gig ver of the Vapor-X 4890 should preform as well as and as quietly as the 2Gig ver?

Curious_Canuck :)

Yes. you may extrapolate just such a thing.