Am I the first digitian to buy HD4770??

[desiibond]

Yes yes yes

Manufacturer: Sapphire
Model: HD4770
RAM: 512MB GDDR5

I got tempted when I saw this card in shop and bought it immediately for 7.2k (including tax) and along with it bought VX450W.

It is massive when compared to my older HD2600XT (which I am ready to sell).

Installed the card, booted into win7 and OS was unable to find drivers online. Did a search on included CD and it found drivers.

But, User Experience Rating for Graphics fell from 5.1 to 2.0.

Looks like they released the card in a hurry and forgot about building proper drivers.

 

[saqib_khan]

Congo dude. Yes, I think u r the first one in TDF to buy it.

Drivers for Win 7 will come, wait for sometime, have patience.

And if possible, post a review & ur personal opinion abt this one.

 

[Liverpool_fan]

You'll get the best performance with Catalyst 9.5 which releases in a few days or weeks time IIRC.

 

[desiibond]

cool. thanks for the updates on drivers guys.

Currently installing Far Cry 2.

 

[desiibond]

Since I reinstalled Win 7 RC, do not have any games left.

One thing that i found is that here is no sound at all from my cabinet even though there are four fans in it (two cooler master, one Corsair 120mm PSU fan, GPU fan). It's totally silent whereas my older HD2600XT used to make lot of noise.

 

[Ethan_Hunt]

Congrats. Hope to now see you a lil' bit more in the gaming section.

 

[awww]

post some pics of the rig

 

[Liverpool_fan]

512MB HD2600XT

Time to update your sig mate.

 

[Coool]

Congo

 

[desiibond]

@Ethan: Thanks mate. Definitely you will see me more in gaming section. but am going to home town this weekend and will be back on 18th

@awww: Will post pics of this tomorrow morning as I have a cell phone only and you will not be able to differentiate between Graphics card and sound card if I take pics now

@Liverpool_fan: sure. Will do that rightaway

@Coool: Thanks mate

 

[desiibond]

Installed Far Cry 2 and Fraps. Shocked to see frame rate of 9 and 10 (everything set to high). Definitely the drivers need to get better. Now in XP. Let me test my luck here.

PS: Eagerly waiting for Phenom II X3's price drop.

 

[gaurav_indian]

Congrats.Sada khush raho.

 

[desiibond]

Thank you.

Tried Dirt in windows XP. Giving 30-33fps at 1440x900 and everything set to ultra. This fps will be lot more if I put a dualcore processor with faster ram (and also better drivers)

 

[Gowt1ham]

@desiibondDude why did u pay 7.2k, it was available for 6.3~6.5k. U should have waited a bit more for the prices would have fallen.

But I would have bought it right now if I had the money. Can you test crysis on tht and also tell us the max overclock that can be acheived on this card.

 

[saqib_khan]

^^ lol Gowt1ham & desiibond r the impatient ones

In some review I saw, after overclocking, it performed better then 4850. I wonder y anyone wud buy 4850 now.

 

[desiibond]

I wanted to be one of those early adopters atleast for once in life

Going to buy Crysis or Crysis Warhead game today and will test it out.

Have to install catalyst and will test overclocking. Will post results tonight.

BTW, Any idea what the price is for Crysis and Warhead?

 

[damngoodman999]

Picture of the grafix card plzzz

 

[desiibond]

upload in progress

 

[channabasanna]

BTW, Any idea what the price is for Crysis and Warhead?

desiibond, Last month when i had been to Landmark did check for Crysis and Warhead prices, while i was buying rFactor. I think they are either Rs 899 or Rs 999

 

[desiibond]

HD2600XT and HD4770
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HD4770's heatsink:

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Top view:

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