ATI Radeon HD 4870 Review

This is my review of the HD 4870 graphics card from Visiontek after owning it for a week. The audio is out of sync at the end, I know, I just cant afford a good video converter right now. If you have any questions leave a comment and I'll try to get back to you, thanks for watching.

System specs:
memory - G.Skill 2GB GDDR3 ram (PC3 10600)
Motherboard - Intel BOXDP45SG LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Motherboard
Power supply - COOLER MASTER Real Power Pro 750W
Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz
HDD - HITACHI Deskstar 320GB 7200 RPM SATA (16MB cache)

Category:

Science & Technology

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• HD4870
• 4870
• computer
• tech
• graphics
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• pc
• parts

[Derek519425]

how much power do you need for this card? iv got a cooler master Extreme 550 waat 80+ silver certified power supply. please reply. GREAT CARD

[weemancod]

500 Watt or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode)

[putsipa]

if i buy 2 of these and crossfirex them do i have to download some patches for some games that i can use the crossfire for good

[weemancod]

Nope you should not need to download anything additional for crossfire to work with your games, it should work right away just fine.

[peaceplease]

I have a 550W Corsair PSU. Does that have enough power to run the card efficiently?

[weemancod]

Yes that will work, you could even run 2 of them with 550 watts but thats the lowest you could go with crossfire. But it will run one of them just fine.

[ieatmonkeys501]

Im going to put this in my dell e521 along with a 650w powersupply, the computer guy told me that if i did, i could basically run anything.

[robert140602]

Really useful review,thanks my friend.

[wesclev83]

@weemancod What kind of power supply would i need for the 4870 X2?

[SavageArms357]

@MarcoThe961 I really don't recommend gaming with a laptop. Parts are more expensive and its much harder to keep it all cool.

[MarcoThe961]

Please man, can you help me , I need a good video card to buy that can play crysis, cod mw2 and that games in high settings but i need to put it in a laptop in a sony vaio VPCS111FM please can you help me find one

[FeverK0]

hey man nice review 5/5, one question though. Where did you buy your ATI Radeon HD 4870...

....and are two ATI Radeon HD 4870's

equivalent to.... ATI Radeon HD 4870x2

[oTheDudeOo]

im running this on a 600w psu with just 1 pcie power connector, im using one of the molex converters that came with it, is that ok weemancod?

[ADRIAN01225]

mate dbx58bt all the way 6 dimms for ddr3 up too 2333mhz and it takes quad crossfire whop whop and btw ive got 900w i surgest atleast 700w but if you gunna get rig get intel bx58bt best board on the market and its under 400£ ati=ftw:) fuck nvidia