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RV770: AMD ATI Radeon HD 4870
| Author | Edward Chester |
| Published | 4th Jul 2008 |
| Manufacturer | HIS |
| Supplier | Scan |
| Price | £199.13 (Exc VAT) |
| as reviewed | £229.00 (Inc VAT) |
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Comments for RV770: AMD ATI Radeon HD 4870
Varis Vitols said on 5th July 2008
Matthew Bunton said on 5th July 2008
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.
viexd said on 5th July 2008
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
Faiakes said on 5th July 2008
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.
Varis Vitols said on 5th July 2008
It depends on what u upgrade from...
Pbryanw said on 6th July 2008
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.
karakaan said on 7th July 2008
anybody know the minimum power supply rating? looking to install in Dual-Xeon Dell workstation with 700w PSU??
DMN said on 7th July 2008
My X1950XTX is looking a bit long in the tooth now. Getting that itchy upgrade feeling.
Ed said on 7th July 2008
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?
karakaan said on 7th July 2008
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).
Ed said on 8th July 2008
Ah, that could be a bit of a problem. Dells are an absolute pig to work with.
Lostbok said on 14th July 2008
^^ 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)
Lostbok said on 14th July 2008
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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