Best graphics card under £100

[MSIC]

Agreed, the 4830 looks to be the card to buy for the O.P.
Typically Overclockers UK tend to be one of the first to advertise upcoming products, and they haven't advertised this card yet, so it may well take another week or so to find them.

[Webby]

They are available from eBuyer and OCUK both on preorder

Ebuyer - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/151337 £104
OCUK - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-187-SP... £106 ETA 31/10/2008
Both are offering the Sapphire card which more info can be found here http://www.sapphiretech.com/uk/produ...gpid=261&grp=3

Unfortunately too expensive in my eyes needs to be a max £95 to make it worth while, at current pricing the 9800GT looks the better deal for less than £100.

[MSIC]

Oh! I missed that one... (and notice that OcUK have it listed under their 4850 range).
It's an interesting looking cooler, i wonder if it's any good.
Hmm, to be fair, one couldn't recommend it at £105, unless perhaps it came with a HDMI port, DVI and also Display Port (BTW it claims to support HDMI but that would appear to be with a convertor connection), and also had a wonderful HSF like perhaps a HIS / Arctic Cooling exhaust type one.

[Webby]

If you haven't seen the reviews yet then the 4830 is basically the same card as a 4850, in Sapphire's case they have used the same PCB as their duelslot 4850 (non-standard PCB and cooler) so cooling performance and noise wise look for a review of the 4850 card Like this one obviously ignore all the performance stuff (temps are on the overclocking page) and remember the 4830 runs a bit cooler than the 4850 anyway so fans won't need to spin quite as fast to achieve the same temps.

[PeterStoba]

So that sapphire 4830 is one of the higher end ones i'd assume, you'll get cheaper ones from themselves, palit and powercolor?

[Webby]

Well the Sapphire Dualslot 4850 sells for £115 on eBuyer (cheapest 4850 they sell) so no not really a high end one.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

They are available from eBuyer and OCUK both on preorder

Ebuyer - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/151337 £104
OCUK - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-187-SP... £106 ETA 31/10/2008
Both are offering the Sapphire card which more info can be found here http://www.sapphiretech.com/uk/produ...gpid=261&grp=3

Unfortunately too expensive in my eyes needs to be a max £95 to make it worth while, at current pricing the 9800GT looks the better deal for less than £100.

RIPOFF!!

You can the HD4850 for around £100 anyway(Scan have had them on offer for this price).

According to the US RRP there is a 40USD difference in price between the HD4850 and HD4830. This should mean that the HD4830 should be around £80 to £90.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

80 to be precise:

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/other/155

[sys-req]

I have to say I am surprised that the price of this card, I was expecting £80 to £90 and the 4670 to drop a little bit. But £100 seems a little steep, the etailers will probably sell them at RRP for the first 3 months until demand drops.

I have just stumped up the extra for a Sapphire 4850 instead for £113 at Dabs.

Whats £13 over the life of the card.....

[Webby]

80 to be precise:

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/other/155

The $130 price tag does not include taxes and converts to £80.94 (according to xe.com £1 = $1.61) then you need to add VAT to that so £95.10 should be the RRP here inclusive of taxes. Unfortunately with the pound falling against the doller prices will be going up

£105 is still a rip off though I agree

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The $130 price tag does not include taxes and converts to £80.94 (according to xe.com £1 = $1.61) then you need to add VAT to that so £95.10 should be the RRP here inclusive of taxes. Unfortunately with the pound falling against the doller prices will be going up

£105 is still a rip off though I agree

I was actually referring to the fact that the review sample had 560 shaders and not the advertised 640!!

I just hope that the HD4850 does not increase in price to compensate!!

[Webby]

Ooo eBuyer have knocked the price down to £99.99 still needs to drop £5 more really but getting there slowly (or quite quickly since it was only released today!)

[sys-req]

Now thats cheeky, ebuyer have gone way down in my estimation.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/151337

Its now up to £108.75

You can just imagine the conversation, "oooh we have had 50 pre orders for that new card, better put the price up we can make a bit more margin on it"

What I don't get is that they have the 4850 for about £7 more who in their right mid would by one now!!!

[Arjun]

Er guys I mentioned I got an Asus 4850 for £110 from OcUK the other day. It's 512mb but some software shows 1024mb, weird :S

[Webby]

Which software shows it with 1024MB? And is it the one with the stock cooler (single slot) or the duel slot glacier cooler model?

The easiest way to check for sure is to load ATI Catalyst Control Centre (assuming you have it installed) open the advanced view (rather than basic) click on "Information Center" then "Graphics Hardware" scroll down in the window and you should see a line called Memory Size and next to it the amount of memory you have, see below for an image to see where I mean

[wazi]

Force3D HD 4670 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI HDTV Out PCI-E Graphics Card only £54.54 from



http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149199