4890s

[Shane]

Just wondering why they are dissapearing?...They seem to be getting rare?

out of 3 online stores ive just looked none have them ....wierd

was there only so many made?

 

[Gabe63]

They are old = now replaced with 5000 series. My first card was a 4890, it was a good card.

 

[StrangleHold]

ATI wanting you to buy the 5000 series. Drying up supply of the 4000 series GPUs.

 

[Dunk1970]

This is a slight departure from the topic (only slight though). I have been searching for a solution to a monitor driver issue I've been having and my searches for a solution keep zeroing me in on Nevakonaza's posts (because of the signature) as we share very similar PC set-ups. Most importantly, we have the same monitor (LG M2262D), operating system (Win 7 - 64 bit) though mine's the 'Ultimate' edition, and we both have variants of the 1GB Radeon 4890 (mines a Sapphire).

Anyway, the issue is Windows 7 keeps insisting that what I've plugged in is the smaller LG M2062 with a max resolution of 1600x900. I've tried installing the Win 7 driver for the M2262D (max resolution 1920x1080) from the LG site and also from the disk provided with the monitor. While Win 7 acknowledges every time I update the driver to say it is installed, Win 7 then continues to insist that the display I have connected to the PC is the M2062 (no other options are available in the drop down list). I cannot seem to override it in any way and it insists on limiting me to 1600x900. And yes, I've rebooted after every attempted driver update.

I'm connecting via a DVI cable and consequently have been installing digital versions of the driver. I presume that DVI should be the preferred choice of cable.

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[AeQ]

4890 is alot more powerful than alot of 5000 series ati cards. I dont think your looking enough. They can run crysis on full spec 1080. Some 5000 will only bench it.