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Alright, this ain't
any regular 4890. |
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This is the 4890 XXX
edition from XFX. |
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And this is the fastest 4890
I've seen so far. |
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It is very, very, very fast and if you
don't know about the 4890 just yet, |
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it's pretty much an RV770.
It's called the RV790. |
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It's still 55 NM, but because they've gotten
better and they've become more used |
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to manufacturing their chips,
the RV770's, |
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they've made them have higher frequencies,
are more tweak-able, |
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and there are some good options
in here for power. |
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So the RV790 is definitely an upgrade even
though it's still 55 NM. |
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It does run cooler and it is more efficient,
even though with the higher frequencies. |
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And that's just because they've gotten
better at managing that power. |
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Also, you get the advantages of having the
newest drivers and the AMD fusion software, |
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so a lot of good stuff that goes
into these cards. |
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But definitely, by far,
is the higher frequencies. |
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This thing, Factory Clock is ridiculous.
Overclocking it is ridiculous. |
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It goes even higher, so, just to give you an
idea of the shaders and the core |
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on an ATI card, the 4800 series are all the
same. They're always matched up. |
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So, a regular 4870 is 750 MHz.
OK? A 4890 is 850 MHz. |
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But this is 900 MHz, and when I overclocked
it I got it to 985 MHz, |
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which is extremely high, almost 1 GHz.
I bet you can get it into 1 GHz |
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with maybe water cooling or
maybe getting that lucky card. |
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I bet you you could get it to 1 GHz.
It's not a problem. |
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So let's talk a little bit more about,
also about frequencies. |
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Let me just give you a quick idea.
The Factory 4870 has a 900 MHz memory clock. |
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And that's DDR5, so that actually goes,
it gets increased, that number |
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because it's multiplied by four.
It actually goes to 3600 effective data rate. |
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OK? Now, the 4890, the Factory one is 975,
which is 3900 MHz. Extremely, extremely high. |
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And what's really crazy about this one,
I overclocked the memory |
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to 1190 MHz clock rate,
which is 4,760 MHz, or 4.7 GHz. |
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Very, very highly overclockable card.
Now, another thing that's really cool |
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about this card, is that it gives you OpenGL
4.0, which is the first card |
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to bring that to the market.
It also brings you Shader Model 4.1, |
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and DirectX 10.1. So, definitely
the new OpenGL is brand new, |
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been using 2.1 for a while, this is
the first one to use the 3.0 protocol. |
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You also get a slightly different
cooler on here. |
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It's got three heat pipes actually. You
can't see them but they're hidden in there. |
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This is an all-clear case and this thing
does cool pretty, pretty well. |
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It's very, very similar to the 4870.
But it is slightly different. |
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Talking about power, you're going to need two
6-pin PCI Express Connectors, right there. |
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I would recommend about 500 watt power supply
for this with a good quality power supply. |
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If you have a lesser quality power supply
it'd be nice to have 600 and about 750 |
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if you want to do CrossFire. But, you
can probably do CrossFire with 500 alone |
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if you have a high quality power supply.
Maybe a PC power and cooling, or Corsair, |
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or something of the sort, like that,
you shouldn't have any problems. |
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So, very, very nice card. Now, you also, you
have dual monitor controllers on here. |
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Dualing DVI's with
400 MHz RAMDACs. |
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These will do 2560 x 1600
with a dual linked DVI. |
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Or they'll do 1920 x 1080
with a single linked DVI. |
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You also got that 7-pin
Digital S-Video cable right there, |
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which can use a breakaway cable to go to
composite, which are these right here. |
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This is a breakaway cable.
It plugs in there. And this goes to your TV. |
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This'll do 1080i to a television
with no audio. |
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Also included in the box is this.
I would kind of hope that noone's using this, |
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but some people might need it.
This is a composite breakaway. |
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So pretty much this goes in here,
7-pin and out comes a composite, |
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so you have one audio. Now your best bet
though is to use this device. |
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This is an HDMI to DVI adapter, and this
will do 1920 x 1080 p. |
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And it will do 7.1 channel lossless audio.
And that's because this thing has the UVD, |
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or the Unified Video Decoder
lets you do Blueray and 1080p content, |
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as well as HDCP support. That's all
included on here, which is really nice. |
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You can get 7.1 channels through that DVI.
You gotta make sure though |
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that you hook up the audio cable
that comes in the box. |
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It's called audio loop cable, that's very
important to have. |
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On top of that HDMI and HDCP support
you do have the ATI Power Play |
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which is really cool. That actually monitors
the temperature on the card, |
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the GPU activity, how much are you using it,
and it underclocks it. |
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That's why this card saves you so much power
in, pretty much in the power |
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and in the efficiency range. It is more
efficient because it does have |
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that ATI Power Play. Of course it does do
CrossFireX, so if you want to link these two |
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GPUs together, up to three or for GPUs,
you can as well. |
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You can also use this with
any other 4800 series card. |
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It's not a big deal if you want to
mix them and match them. |
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That's one of the good things about ATI
that is really nice to have. |
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Now, let's talk a little bit more
about the specs. |
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Again, 800 shaders on here. The core clock
is at 900 MHz, same thing for the shaders. |
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You got 1 GB of GDDR5 clocked at 3900 MHz
effectively and 256-bit memory interface. |
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So that's pretty wide. And you get
40 texture units and 16 ROPs. |
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So, pretty much the exact same as
the 4870 minus the higher frequency. |
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Now, let's talk about benchmarks,
because we got quite a few here to go over. |
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I did a few. First of all, let me tell you
the benchmark set up. |
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It's a Core i7. It's at 4 GHz, I wanted to
make sure there's no bottle necking, |
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so I overclocked it to 4 GHz.
Corsair memory 1866. |
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6 GB of triple channel.
It's actually clocked at 1600 MHz. |
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So it's slower, but it's got
really tight latencies. |
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It's 7, 7, 7, 24 with
a 1T command line, I believe. |
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Two X25 MSSDs in Raid O
on a Windows 64-bit OS. |
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And I did two resolutions, four games,
1680 x 1050 and 1920 x 1200. |
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So your native 22'' and 24'' resolutions. |
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Most of the games were
with everything cranked up. |
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HDR and anti-aliasing,
and anisotropic filtering. |
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Everything was cranked up to the maximum,
and that's pretty much it. |
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So, let's just jump into it.
Taking a look, first of all, |
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at Tom Clancey Hawx, which is actually
the game that comes with the video card. |
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This is a flying game, flight simulator. But,
it's more like a combat flight simulator. |
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Very, very fun game to play.
It just came out on the market. Pretty cool. |
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And it performed quite well.
This video card, as you would imagine, |
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because it is in the box, so let's look at
that. At 1680 x 1050, compared to the |
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GTX 260, the 4870, and the 4890
non-overclocked versions. |
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The GTX 260 did 54fps.
The 4870 did 57fps. |
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The 4890 did 63fps. |
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And this XXX version did 69fps.
Now, at 1920 x 1200 |
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you get a lot more stress
to the video card. |
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37 frames per second on the GTX 260.
42fps on the 4870. |
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49fps, so we got an
additional 7fps on the 4890, |
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and by overclocking we get an additional
three or two frames per second to 51fps. |
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Now, next game, Far Cry 2.
Another great Direct X10 game. |
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This is fully maxed out settings.
8X, 8A and 16XAF, all the settings maxed out. |
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Also we're using the AMD Fusion
expert profile in the catalyst 9.4 drivers. |
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As you can see here, the GTX 260 still has
an advantage on this game. |
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Very, very NVIDIA based, so 1680 x 1050.
We saw 51fps on the 260. |
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The 4870 did 40fps.
The 4890 did 43fps. |
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And the 4890 OC did 46fps.
Now, in 1920 x 1200 it wasn't as bad. |
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45fps for the GTX 260.
35fps for the 4870. |
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38fps for the 4890. And 40fps
for the 4890 OC, or XXX edition. |
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Now, moving on to Crisis Warhead.
This is where we pretty much |
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had to turn off the filters.
So there's no AA, no AF, |
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gamer settings, direct X10 ready to go.
Just the basic settings. |
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But, you know, very high. Obviously,
it's not like the, you know, |
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beginner settings. Pretty cranked up.
We got 42fps on the GTX 260. |
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40fps on the 4870.
The 4890 did it at 44fps. |
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And the 4890 XXX
did it at 46fps. |
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Moving on to 1920 x 1200 we do see
the frame rates drop off. |
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The higher the resolution in Crisis,
it really will bring |
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any video card to its knees.
I don't care what it is. |
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Dual GPU cards, water cool card,
it doesn't matter |
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because Crisis is gonna bring
it to its knees. |
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1920 x 1200 34fps for the GTX260.
The 4870 did 33fps. |
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The 4890 did 35fps.
And the 4890 XXX did 37fps. |
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Finally, Fall Out 3, my favorite game.
My favorite, favorite game. |
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It's so awesome. It's just great and
playing the pit now, as well, on Xbox. |
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And I played Fall Out 3 on the PC.
Here it is at 1680 x 1050. |
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The GTX 260 did 63fps.
The 4870 did 68fps. |
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The 4890 did 72fps.
And this XXX version did 76fps. |
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Moving on up to 1920 x 1200,
the GTX 260 did 47fps. |
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The 4870, 57fps.
The 4890, 64fps. |
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And the XXX 4890, 68fps. Pretty much
destroying the fastest game of the year. |
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No problem. Or the best game of the year.
My favorite game of the year definitely. |
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At least it was voted several times
to be the best game of the year. |
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But quite impressive. So a lot
of tweakability on this card. |
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Lots of overclocking. Again, don't forget my
overclocking. 980 MHz on the core. |
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980 MHz on the shaders.
And the memory was above 4.5 GHz. |
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GHz, that's ridiculous. It's absurd.
So, this card is very, very fast. |
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And it's very cool. And I forgot
to tell you man, look at this box. |
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This box is crazy, man.
It's an "X". |
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I don't even know
what to say about that. |
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In case you want to know, included in the
box you also get this, this, that, |
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you get that, you get that,
you get that, and you get this. |
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So, composite, CrossFire cable,
HDMI to DVI, |
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DVI to VGA,
two 4-pin molex to 6-pin, |
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PCI Express Connectors,
and your component breakaway cable |
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for 1080i to your TV.
There it is ladies and gentlemen. |
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The 4890 XXX edition from XFX.
Very nice card. |
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If you have questions on it, Email me.
And I'll see you guys next time. |
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For more information on the XFX
Radeon HD 4890 XXX edition, |
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type in:
P450-4891 |
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into the search engine of
any of these major retailers. |
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For Computer TV, I'm Albert. |
