ATI HD4800 Review Thread

[whocaresbg]

can you post a link to that forum ?

from the inf. file .

0807071320-8.511-080624a

[eric66]

from the inf. file .

what does that mean ? seems from numbers this one is older am i right ?

[Unbornchild]

Yes:
Asus's is 8.511-080624a,
Guru3D's is 8.52-080625a, so newer.

[emoners]

i just wanna get somethings clarified...which would be better for a 24" LCD, 512mb or the 1gb version? or there's no difference?

[Chickenfeed]

The 1GB would be more future proof of course and will allow for high resolution texture mods in current games so I'd say it would be worth it over the 512MB. As for whether there is a measured difference between the two currently, reviews speak for themselves ( eg at 1920x1200, 512MB is enough in current games ; but like I said in the future this will change )

[mascaras]

PowerColor HD4870 PCS 1GB




In PCGH test, the Radeon HD 4870 is already very well and the more expensive Geforce GTX 260 times one after another bought from the cutting.
Fans of the new Radeon series but had to wait several weeks until it is now with Power Color the first AMD partner succeeded in creating one's own design of the HD 4870 on the market

In addition to a full gigabyte GDDR5 memory, the PowerColor HD 4870 PCS OC also house the cooling solution PCS based on a zero-Therm model. This according to manufacturer reached up to 20 degrees Celsius lower temperatures than the AMD reference cooler - and despite an increased GPU clock rate of RV770 chips target of around 800 megahertz

More information - for example for HD 4850 with two gigabytes of VRAM - there are at PowerColor.

Details about the release date, price or clock rates are still not sure.

http://translate.google.com/translat...F8&sl=de&tl=en

[flopper]

The 1GB would be more future proof of course and will allow for high resolution texture mods in current games so I'd say it would be worth it over the 512MB. As for whether there is a measured difference between the two currently, reviews speak for themselves ( eg at 1920x1200, 512MB is enough in current games ; but like I said in the future this will change )

newer cards will be there then waiting....

[eric66]

looks excellent

[Hornet331]

hmm if it is not more then 250€ its mine.

[emoners]

Powercolor's cooler looks great! is Powercolor a good brand?

[zerazax]

Looks like a solid cooler with the extra cooling on VRM + the 1GB + 800 MHz core mmm yummy

Cant wait to see what other AIBs have in store such as the Toxic and ICEQ's

[Hornet331]

btw. anyone knows when ati enables/implants the powerplay features?

it still annoys me to see that the nothing has been done since the release, especial since the cards run most of the time in the idle state.

[Unbornchild]

btw. anyone knows when ati enables/implants the powerplay features?

it still annoys me to see that the nothing has been done since the release, especial since the cards run most of the time in the idle state.

Something wrong with your card?... it runs my games superbly, and stays quiet. Guru3D's Catalyst 8.7 beta. The only overclock i've done on it is CCC Overdrive. Powerplay must be working...

[fireice2]

Powercolor's cooler looks great! is Powercolor a good brand?

We don't have much choices in our country. Powercolor is good based on my client feedbacks. hehehe

HTH

[emoners]

We don't have much choices in our country. Powercolor is good based on my client feedbacks. hehehe

HTH

Matt, you getting the X2?

[Hornet331]

Something wrong with your card?... it runs my games superbly, and stays quiet. Guru3D's Catalyst 8.7 beta. The only overclock i've done on it is CCC Overdrive. Powerplay must be working...

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,65...chbetrachtung/

plus 8.7 it still don't works -> still the same 500mhz idle clock.

[STaRGaZeR]

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,65...chbetrachtung/

plus 8.7 it still don't works -> still the same 500mhz idle clock.

I smell you'll never see the clocks changed through drivers, it has been like that for all previous ATI cards. Clocks are controlled by the BIOS. For those with cards with the 500MHz clock the only solution would be a simple flashing. But still the advertised PowerPlay sucks in this generation... wonder why. My guess is lack of stability or flickering at those 160MHz.

[Hornet331]

well in the pcg artikel amd itself says that this feature is gona be implanted by newer drivers. Still as you, i think they busted that feature. Maybe it a silicon bug and needs another revision to work probably...

[onethreehill]

ASUS released TOP Radeon 4870, 815MHz/925MHz
http://en.hardspell.com/doc/showcont.asp?news_id=3779

[cantankerous]

ASUS released TOP Radeon 4870, 815MHz/925MHz
http://en.hardspell.com/doc/showcont.asp?news_id=3779

Very nice clocks, but I wouldn't buy it based on clocks alone without a different cooler. If someone can get a hold of this bios however that would be well wicked.

[emoners]

Very nice clocks, but I wouldn't buy it based on clocks alone without a different cooler. If someone can get a hold of this bios however that would be well wicked.

i agree....the reference clocks are good enough but it's the damn coolers that need to be upgraded

[2DIFF]

Hm, if I read and understood everything right, one 4870 ("even" the 512Mb ver.) would be a considerable improvement to 2x 3870's in CF? Everyone agreeing on this please raise your left foot. Thanks!

[naokaji]

i agree....the reference clocks are good enough but it's the damn coolers that need to be upgraded

they just need to fix the fanspeed. seeing as we can fix it on our own with a catalyst profile I dont see why amd cant just release a driver update that improves the fan speed.

[GAR]

they just need to fix the fanspeed. seeing as we can fix it on our own with a catalyst profile I dont see why amd cant just release a driver update that improves the fan speed.

Just mod the bios, takes no time at all and works fine.

[STaRGaZeR]

they just need to fix the fanspeed. seeing as we can fix it on our own with a catalyst profile I dont see why amd cant just release a driver update that improves the fan speed.

Because they want the fan speeds as they're now, and they're perfectly fine for everybody unless you're overclocking.