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The ATi HD 4870 X2 is a powerhouse... but is it really worth it?

Advantages: Powerful, excellent value
Disadvantages: Only good at higher resolutions

The 4870 x2 has been here for a few years now, and has certainly made a place for itself among the graphics card market, rivalled only by possibly-over-the-top cards such as Nvidia's GTX 295, and recently, ATi's own HD 5870 (which is also the first DirectX 11 card on the market). Setting up The card is huge, taking up the space of two slots (which is to be expected of current cards) but also being long. I found that it fitted nicely in my ...
...their case before buying the X2. In my opinion, if you are buying the 4870 X2, you should get a full tower anyway, as the cooling requirements must be considered as well. The card requires two PCI-E power connections- so be sure that your Power Supply is 'compatible' with the X2. The card uses the PCI-E 2.0 interface, which boasts higher bandwith, among other features- so be sure that you get a suitable motherboard aswell. Driver installation is ...

jag1993 27.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sapphire RADEON HD 4870 X2

A cheap and efficient graphics card.

Advantages: Easy installation process, Extensive connectivity options, noiseless.
Disadvantages: Some features work better with Vista operating system.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION Sapphire Technology is the main supplier of ATI based Graphics Cards for personal computers all over the world. It also produces different types of TV cards, work stations and digital photo frames for consumers. It is a Hong-Kong based company and has two ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified manufacturing plants in China. ATI launched the Radeon HD 4600 series on September 2008. This series loaded with some great additional ...
...I bought my HD 4650 graphics card (1 GB) from Dell online, and it cost me around £60. This graphics card designed on 55nm process and came with lots of useful software. EXCLUSIVE FEATURES : # It has built in HDMI support and also 7.1 surround sound support. # It has a massive memory clock speed of 800 MHz. # There is some useful software (Avivo HD Technology, ATI Power-Play Technology etc.) comes with Installation CD. # It supports maximum resolution ...

Gladiator007 05.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sapphire RADEON HD 4650

My HD 4770 review

Advantages: very very fast, surprisingly cheap, GDDR5!!, low power consumption
Disadvantages: haven't found it yet

very very fast card in its class, collaborating with my low profile system:X2 3800 @ 2Ghz, biostar 690, 2 gigs of RAM, 160 GB seagate sata, ASUS 20X DVDRW, FSP SAGA 400W, Samsung SyncMaster 17" 793s first, i've tested it on Crysis, the "nastiest" game today, for 1024 x 768 resolution high setting with 2AA and 8AF, i got 44 FPS average 61 max and 23 min, it's damn playable and u got stable comfortable FPS at amazing graphic quality, second, tested ...

bassist.cupu 29.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sapphire RADEON HD 4770

4670, A surprisingly capable card.

Advantages: Very small. Good for price runs cool and quiet.
Disadvantages: Nothing to expect for its price range

The expectations i had of this little beast were blew away when i received it not so long ago. Not only can it hold its own against many of the other mid range cards out there but its probably the most bang for buck one of them. Also its tiny! which means its able to fit into most cases and fit onto most micro ATX motherboards! Running extremely cool this card is also very quiet and I've had it up against beasts like Crysis up on high settings and ...

aliv101 27.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of ASUS EAH4670/DI

Almost too cheap to have this much power in a graphics card.

Advantages: Cheap for amazing power, Amazingly Stable, Crossfire Compatable
Disadvantages: Bulky, Gets really hot. Nothing else, its perfect except for them 2 things.

I bought this product at launch and it is the most stable and reliable graphics card i have ever purchased. It has a stupid ammount of graphical power for the price. It runs all the latest games at ease, all at the highest graphic settings and with the 8xAA turned on to give everything on screen super smooth edges. From my personal experience i know that this product when on Crysis runs at 25 fps Which is great for a graphics card at this price. ...
...all for graphics. Even games currently out for the xbox and ps3, it can run graphics slightly better than they can process... But to make it even better the crossfire setup that comes with this series of Ati cards will let you stick another card next to it to double the performance and graphical quality. With a crossfire setup on a 4850 you can run every game currently out smoothly, and maybe even run all the games coming out at the start of next ...

Danmanc 25.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sapphire RADEON HD 4850