Re: All Graphics Cards related queries here.
Everybody confused over Palit HD4850 Sonic and EVGA's 9800GT Superclocked, lemme clarify your doubts.
While EVGA's 9800GT Superclocked edition is well, Overclocked by the manufacturer's side, Palit HD4850 Sonic Edition is not OCed but has dual cooling solution as other HD4850 are known to run at higher temperatures. Palit's Sonic Edition has a Dual Heatpipe cooling mechanism topped by a fan providing better cooling than other cards and yes that includes Sapphire too. Today Palit's Sonic Edition is the coolest HD4850 out there. Even they have used the same principle on HD4870 and made HD4870 Sonic Edition which has 2 fans over the Heat pipe coolers.
i m sorry to tell u my friend but actually u are urself confused about "sonic" nomenclature here ...."
sonic" means
factory overcloked ,its same for all palit model ..9600 gt sonic,9600 gso sonic,9800gt sonic and list goes on ...
which means HD4850 sonic is clocked @685 MHz as to against 625MHz of plain palit Hd4850 .(which also comes with a new heatsink and a dual slot cooler)
check the core clocks urself !
Hd4850
*www.palit.biz/main/vgapro.php?id=853
HD4850 sonic
*www.palit.biz/main/vgapro.php?id=755
similarly
Hd470 sonic is clocked @ 775MHz as against to Hd4870 plain @750 MHz
sapphire has also a factory ovrclocked model called Hd4850 toxic with core clock Oced to 675 MHz and a zalman cooling solution ..
Now for AMD+Ati performance thing. Yes! U will get a better result if you have a AMD CPU and ATi GPU. How??? I won't explain, just read it here.
Peace Out!
it talks about AMD FUSION which is altogether a different thing..its coming up microprocessor architecture design
read here
*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion
we are talking about somebody's claim about existing ATI cards working better on AMD platform rather than intel platform ....which is not true!