Analysis - ATI Radeon HD 4850 - benchmarked against mid-range and high-end GPUs

[vrykyl]

I have never bought more than one gpu, and wont anytime soon - its excessive and not neccessary. Whilst an nvidia gx2 or ati x2 card (dual core single card) would not be out of the question, as neither card require more than one slot, or any specific brand hardware.

You cant say that anyone buying on of these cards will have an sli mobo if they buy nvidia, or a crossfire capable board for ati - most people dont buy dual cards.

Fine if you are reviewing cards in sli vs crossfire, have x48 for ati and 790i for nvidia - thats a justifiable difference in subsystem......but if your doing single card benches keep the subsystem the same.
If you need 'comparable' single card benchmark scores for use in an sli/crossfire review - run the tests again on the seperate subsystems.

Most of your current reader base, if I had to go out on a limb and guess, dont own an nvidia chipset mobo, they will have an intel - and most will have an nvidia card. So testing these new single cards on an intel mobo is actually more relevant to your users anyway, and noone will cry bias or foul play towards one manufacturer or the other.

[SiM]

Since it hardly makes a difference, I don't think its worth worrying about...

If all reviews were done in an identical way then what's the point in more than one site reviewing it?

[Rosaline]

I have never bought more than one gpu, and wont anytime soon - its excessive and not neccessary.

You might seriously want to go look at the crossfire benchmarks for the 4850, and consider relative costs... you might find your views on this change

[sawyen]

You might seriously want to go look at the crossfire benchmarks for the 4850, and consider relative costs... you might find your views on this change

nod nod... seriously got me tempted..

Ironically, bagging 260 squids for 2 x HD4850 can get seriously get the 260GTX a run for its money.

And 260 isn't cheap but its not silly money as 280GTX and the old Ultra turns out to be.. I remembered that I paid almost 240 quid for the great ol X1800XT... so HD4850 isn't too far off the realm of impossibility..

Then again, I could just get another 8800GT for 100 and run it on the IN9 instead...