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The Mother Board: bit-tech News: Gainward's Radeon HD 4870 1GB Golden Sample :: Posted by THRASHER2
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Gainward's Radeon HD 4870 1GB Golden Sample
DarkVision Hardware Articles and Review from around the web —
... the in game frame rate returns are generally around the two to three percent mark thanks to the very conservative core overclock, which is pretty disappointing. In those games that are able to utilise the more aggressive memory overclock, like Call of Duty 4 and Call of Duty: World at War, you will see a reasonable performance increase of close to ten percent, but sadly such applications are fairly limited, and thus so is the performance advantage offered by this card. Link: Bit Tech
bit-tech News: Gainward's Radeon HD 4870 1GB Golden Sample :: Posted by THRASHER2
The Mother Board —
... and the limited bundle and chronic lack of overclocking headroom dont help either.
While we love the old school Turbo switch it just ends up feeling redundant and in the case of the dual BIOS, causes more problems than it would ever solve and while it's by no means a bad card, especially when you consider the performance in comparison to the wider graphics market, the Gainward Radeon HD 4870 1GB Golden Sample is simply too expensive to strongly recommend.
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... 19th November 2008 @ 4:02 AM Author: Steve Dougherty The latest happenings from around the web - 19/11/2008 Motherboard - ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm Edition @ Techgage - First Look: DFI's LANParty UT X58 T3eH8 motherboard @ bit-tech - Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H Motherboard @ Hardware Secrets - Gigabyte EP45-DS3R Motherboard @ Driver Heaven - Asus Rampage II Extreme @ tbreak Video/Monitor - Gainward's Radeon HD 4870 1GB Golden Sample @ bit-tech - Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 - Budget Overclocking @ Overclock3D - MSI GeForce ...
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The Tech Report: News —
... pits Intel Wolfdale vs. AMD Agena AnandTech and FiringSquad have first looks at EVGA X58 SLI bit-tech first look at DFI LANParty UT X58 T3eH8 Techgage reviews Asus P6T Deluxe OC Palm Edition Driver Heaven reviews Gigabyte GA- EP45 -DS3R Hardware Secrets has first look at Gigabyte GA- MA78GM -S2H ThinkComputers reviews 1TB Seagate FreeAgent Desk external hard drive Multimedia bit-tech reviews Gainward Radeon HD 4870 1GB Golden Sample Hardware Canucks review BFG Tech GTX 260 OCX MaxCore (216SP) ...
Wednesday Sampler
PureOverclock.com —
... what's happening on the rest of the web? Today's Sampler touches upon Graphics Cards, Motherboards, Cooling and Cases, and Consumer Electronics. Graphics Cards: -Sapphire HD 4830 512MB @ XSReviews -ATI HD4850 Roundup with non-reference cards @ Metku -MSI R4830 512MB Overclock Edition @ OCC -Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M/A Radeon HD 4850@ PCStats -Sapphire Radeon HD4650 OC Edition 512mb GDDR3 @ Modders-Inc -Gainward Radeon HD 4870 1GB Golden Sample @ bit-tech -Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 - Budget Overclocking @ OC3D -XFX GeForce GTX 260 ...
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CPU3D.com / News Feed —
... pits Intel Wolfdale vs. AMD Agena AnandTech and FiringSquad have first looks at EVGA X58 SLI bit-tech first look at DFI LANParty UT X58 T3eH8 Techgage reviews Asus P6T Deluxe OC Palm Edition Driver Heaven reviews Gigabyte GA- EP45 -DS3R Hardware Secrets has first look at Gigabyte GA- MA78GM -S2H ThinkComputers reviews 1TB Seagate FreeAgent Desk external hard drive Multimedia bit-tech reviews Gainward Radeon HD 4870 1GB Golden Sample Hardware Canucks review BFG Tech GTX 260 OCX MaxCore (216SP) ...
