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
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Advantages: cheaper than nvidia, full directx 10.1 support, DDR5 RAM, legendary 4870 platform Disadvantages: you'll not have even one game to challenge this card.
I always appreciated nvidia's graphics cards, because obviously they were always taking an upperhand over ATI. And when Nvidia released 200 series, I bought it as quickly as possible, the graphics I got with my games were stunning. I thought that I had the perfect graphics card on the planet as the other 280's users would also. But then, not quite late though, ATI came in the battle field, holding its newest monster, ATI 4870 X2, 2GB DDR5 graphics ... ...(which is only 1gb), ofcourse few companies were marketing it for lesser than that too. I thought twice but bought it, and as it was destined to be, my eyes were popped out, with full Directx 10.1 support (which ensures 25 - 30% boost in graphics and speed) and 2gb of discrete graphics memory and not to mention the DDR5 RAM, the games were in a whole new look and I could not believe it. The rain effect in Stalker, Far Cry 2, and GTA iv was just incredible. ...
swarnica 16.12.2008
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