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VarisVitols

10:51 AM on 5 July, 2008

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Yeah, it was about time!

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MatthewBunton

1:43 PM on 5 July, 2008

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This is the best bang for buck right now, good to see the ATI cards fighting back. Though it is still too early to upgrade in my opinion.

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viexd

9:18 PM on 5 July, 2008

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if ati get cuda... i will get this card from sapphire(it have 2 (4 pin to 6 pin conector)(my power suply just have one 6 pin conector) but only if it get cuda, because i like to play games but i also do some video editing and transcoding videos to my zune and it take like 4hrs to covert a dvd to h.264 in my conroe

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Faiakes

10:10 PM on 5 July, 2008

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Your comment on the CoD4 results is incorrect. The HD 4870 beats the GTX 280 comfortably.

It simply fails to be the double card GX2.

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VarisVitols

11:58 PM on 5 July, 2008

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It depends on what u upgrade from...

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Pbryanw

2:14 AM on 6 July, 2008

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Probably not worth upgrading from a 8800GT to a 4850 but the 4870 looks like it could be a possibility. Hopefully ATi will have OpenCL to compete against CUDA but I'm not bothered by the lack of support for it.

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karakaan

11:35 AM on 7 July, 2008

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anybody know the minimum power supply rating? looking to install in Dual-Xeon Dell workstation with 700w PSU??

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DMN

12:06 PM on 7 July, 2008

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My X1950XTX is looking a bit long in the tooth now. Getting that itchy upgrade feeling.

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Ed

5:08 PM on 7 July, 2008

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Karakaan,

I wouldn't look at it like that, it completely depends on what else you're running in your system. At peak the card will draw 150 - 200W, if you've got that much headroom in your current supply then you'll be fine. Otherwise you may need to upgrade. Easy way to check is with a plug-in power consumption meter. They're only about £20.

What card are you upgrading from?

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karakaan

8:18 PM on 7 July, 2008

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Hmmm, thanks ED. The Dell manual's state GPU's upto 150W(supported) so I may be pushing it if you say it draws upto 200W. Upgrading Dell PSU's I don't think is that easy as your probably aware most components are besopke (got to love Dell).

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Ed

9:09 AM on 8 July, 2008

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Ah, that could be a bit of a problem. Dells are an absolute pig to work with.

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Lostbok

1:22 PM on 14 July, 2008

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^^ wrt the Dell PSU prob - not sure about the Xeon's, some of the midi-tower cases still have the same footprint as a regular PSU, but just proprietary gaps for the kettle lead... in which case you can buy a normal PSU and get out the metal cutters and drill... I've got "creative" with a few Optiplex's over the years... :o)

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Lostbok

1:24 PM on 14 July, 2008

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and thanks for the great review!!

As per DMN's comment, that X1950XTX-GDDR4 (me too!) is suddenly looking really long in the tooth :o)))

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TheClown

2:58 PM on 15 February, 2009

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i have got to get me one of these...

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Joseph Middleton

11:43 AM on 24 August, 2009

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This Radeon 4870 by HIS... It's not mentioned how much on board memory it has...

512MB or 1GB?

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We really, really like the ATI Radeon HD 4870. It offers unheard of performance for the price and is certainly a significant improvement over the HD 3870. So much do we like this card, in fact, that it runs away with our top, Editor's Choice, award.

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Reviewed by Edward Chester

04 July 2008

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£229.00

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