Sapphire Toxic HD 4850 is out at newegg!

[wherewolf]

This is the first HD 4850 with improved cooling beeing out. Also factory oc'ed.
Asus and Gigabyte is said to also follow up with HD 4800 cards with better cooling than the pretty insufficient stock coolers.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102760

Standard HD 4850 clocks.

GPU = 625MHz
Memory = 1986MHz

The Sapphire Toxic:

GPU: 675 MHz

Memory: 2.2 GHz

This means that the Toxic HD 4850, have 25 MHz higher gpu clocks than some of the Geforce GTX 280's and not that far away from the same memory clocks.

And with the addition of the Zalman cooler. This will be a great bang for buck card in the true sence of the word.

If you are considering a Toxic? The minimum psu requirement is 450W and 30A on the +12V rail(s).

Review of the Toxic:

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=14560&page=1
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[Semp]

While it is a good deal for the gamer on a budget remember 256bit = shitty performance at higher resolutions. Not to mislead people I'm only pointing this out because you are comparing the card to the 280.
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[SCAVENGER1]

on the res, from what res does it get crappy then?
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[Sycuss]

higher than 1680 by 1050
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[SCAVENGER1]

well that is the default for my LCD
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[Sycuss]

same here but with some games.... like crysis DOH... what else. will had a really hard time with the 4850 toxic because of its 256 bus. lols..
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CPU: Intel I7 960 @ 4.1, H2OCooled
Mobo: ASUS Rampage Formula x58
Memory: Corsair XMS3 12gig ddr3 1600mhz 9-9-9-24
ASUS GTX 680 OC
EVGA GTX 580 Deticated Physics
Monitor: Asus 144hz 27inch 3D monitor
Sound: Auzen X-fi Forte.
Hard drives: 1x Crucial 256Gb M4 SSD,
6x WD 640Gb AAKS in Raid 0
EXTERNAL DRIVES BELOW
1x Seagate 2Tb,
1x Seagate 500Gb,
1x Seagate 200Gb
Optical: Samsung DVD+-RW
PSU: Enermax Galaxy 1250W
Case: Cooler Master HAF 932 <-Falling apart
Cooling: H100 Push Pull with 60mm thick fans and a 40mm shoud

OS: Windows 8 x64 Professional Personal Modded Edition

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