my GF ( girl F ) does not have a FAN attanched lol ! i already did MX-2 which i bought from the INDIA distri @ 300 bucks no good !they said might take 3 days for the paste to settle ! weirdIf your computer still heats even after you increase fan speed to 100% just do what i have done, remove the cover of the case( many expert don't approve it ) or apply AS5 of the GPU core but for that you have to remove fan from the GF.
^^Just wait before you tweak. Might void your warranty. Can't you increase the fan speed from ATi Catalyst Control Center?
my fren's old FX 5950 Ultra was an induction stove edition which easily crosses 140c, yet was oober stable.
@shantanu
just ask MSI guys that if u can manually do it? and will it void the warranty?
and is they didnt bring up with a soln soon, then the card might be ashes and they ll have to RMA it.
btw, yup it ll take some days, i mean a min of 50~75 hrs of working for the paste to acquire its true property. At first its state is not good for heat transfer, but its easy to apply. After its been treated to heat of bout 100c for some hours, its chemical structure changes and its heat transfer property ill begin to show up.
ive read it somewhere on net...on a comparison b/w diff pastes.
also, any aftermarket cooler that was built for HD 3850 or 3870 will fit perfectly for HD 4850/4870.
but still, those cooler's fan will draw power from card's connector, so will run under speed, due to bios bug. But those cooler's which draws external power from a molex for the GPU might works perfectly.
my GF ( girl F ) does not have a FAN attanched lol ! i already did MX-2 which i bought from the INDIA distri @ 300 bucks no good !they said might take 3 days for the paste to settle ! weird
is there a option ? i didnt found any ?
Nope. 4870 is available at little less than 15K. This for the 512MB version. An extra 512MB should not increase the cost beyond 18K IMO. 3K for 512MB itself is a bit high. I seriously doubt GDDR5 can be THAT expensive.^^AFAIK, the 4870 costs around 18k. And adding 1GB of GDDR5 will cost a lot more..
We are talking about HD4870 not HD4850Well well well! What did i miss?
I can see that my good friends are talking about the 1GB graphics cards. Psyched!
Well actually 1GB won't make a big difference into 4850,4870. Those 512MB are more than enough.
I read a review at guru3d that used a 512MB 4850 & a 2GB 4850 & the difference was marginal. Infact, 512MB shows much better performance than the 2GB version.
Well we can count on HD4870X2, thats about to wait but - more beef isn't always better!