Advantages: absoloutly brilliant card! arguably ATI's best card in terms of usability Disadvantages: may not be as power as the nvidia 8800
Feel as if you need a new ATIRadeon Graphics processing Unit? I highly reccomend this one! its not as powerful as the Nvdia 8800 GTX in some of the stats, but its different in a lot of ways
Gaming companies preferably use the excellent ATI GPU's because they find them more flexible for them and for the consumers. and that is why its worth getting this gpu. It is absoloutly flawless with any game or with any video editing process.
The things that happen within this gpu, are truly quite amazing. It morphs and moulds to the game and gives you the best possible results.
take crysis for example. a very highly demanding game. this will gpu will ulter itself to have the neccasary shades whcih make hte textures on the trees somewhat impossible.
this truly is a brilliant card and it gets 5 stars from me!
BUY IT! ...
Advantages: Can run almost every game on highest settings, easy to overclock, very good memory speed. Disadvantages: No PhsX so some games can't run properly or even at all sometimes, some old games dont work.
The XFX ATiRadeonHD 4870 1024MB GDDR5, is undoubtedly one of the best cards you can buy within it's price range (to name a few the Nvidia GTX 260, the Nvidia GTS 250 and the ATi 4850) it is able to play almost every modern game at highest settings at a playable speed. I say almost because because some games require Nvidia PhsX, and I say modern because some old games don't work on the graphics card, Quake III for example. Although Deus Ex Works, as do all of Valves games and Diablo II does, but it has graphical issues and can mess up the placement of your windows.
Visuals
Almost every game that I own I can run at highest settings with a flawless framerate, Crysis runs at about 20 FPS which is playable but not exactly flawless. It still looks absolutely amazing though and you completely forget the bad gameplay ...
Advantages: Extremely Fast,Over clocks well,GDDR 3. Great image quality Disadvantages: Not DX10 compatible, does not have the newer crossfire bridge, Loud Fan
clock speed: 625 MHz
16 pixel pipelines
256 MB GDDR3 memory
Memory Clock: 1800MHz
Memory Size: 256 MB
Memory Interface: 256-bit
GDDR 3
DirectX 9
Maximum Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Dual DVI connectors
VIVO port
Integrated TV encoder
S-Video Socket
Pros: Extremely Fast. Over clocks well. Runs most games on the market today. GDDR 3. Great image quality, cooler reacts to UV
Cons: Not DX10 compatible, does not have the newer crossfire bridge ( makes crossfire a little more tricky), Loud Fan
In The Box:
Radeon X1950XT 256MB
Driver Disk
HDTV Cable
VIVO Cable
2 x DVI to VGA/D-sub Adapter
Price: Around £85 (depends where you shop)
Overall I think that this card is a good card for almost any gamer, extreme gamers may want to go for the new DX10 compatible card now available from both NVIDIA and ATI. Although if you ...
PRODUCT FEATURES: Dual-VGA supporting a maximum analog resolution of 2048 x 1536 Dual-DVI supporting a maximum digital resolution of 2560 x 1600 A full-height for tower systems Comprehensive Microsoft DirectX 10 support High-definition (HD) experience with Microsoft Windows Vista Certified for Windows Vista ATI Avivo HD Video and display architecture High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) Hardware-based H.264/VC-1 Unified Video Decoder (UVD) for smooth video playback of Blu-ray content Integrated S-video TV output support up to 1024 x 768 resolution Supports attachment of two Dual-link DVI for attachment of large size digital LCD flat-panel displays up to 2560 x 1600 resolution 128-bit DDR3 memory
