HD4870 Launched!

magikn00b said:
BTW MyBroadband forum ftw!! you guys give nice replys and respectfull comments here compared to the stuck up SGS forums. Nice guys :rolleyes:
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Ye true that:) Cough cough not mentioning *PC BG*, *Sys ShO*
Lol
 
ld13 said:
They were already taking strain from all the people visiting their site from early this morning. 'Dead' now for me aswell.

Here I have uploaded some pics from my browser cache - I'll see what I can fish out of it and upload...

@ASS_SAZiN` Sometimes crossfire can work with different cards, but it makes sense that Series X won't work with Series Y, cause the older series will be holding the new powerful card back a bit. That is how I see it in any case.
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kevinswan007 said:
First Review: HD 4870 and HD 4850
June 24th, 2008 by Jeff AMD, Graphics, Hardware, NEWS

Final words

The Good:

So, numbers can talk for itself. With the price tag $199(HD 4850) and $299 (HD 4870), RV770 is the BEST bang for the buck. Compare to GTX 260, A $299 only HD 4870 is a smarter choice. Yes, using this kind of word seems quite biased, but if you read all numbers from our review you will see my point.

Compare to GTX 260, HD 4870 is only 3/4 of its price while test items show the card have almost the same firepower!

HD 4850’s rival is 9800GTX, and we can see while their price keeps the same, HD 4850 have more than 15% leading.

The Con:

But, RV770 also have lot’s of weak points. First, the card is HOT, i am afraid that if you are not going aftermarket coolers or water the card can not stand long.

Second, RV770 TDP is quite terrible. HD 4870 in stress mode almost can catch up with GTX 280. Is it still a AMD card? And the second Gen PowerPlay is not as good as AMD saids, seems can not lower the clock effectively.

The huge impact of Radeon HD 4800 series force NVIDIA drops price for the Geforce 9800GTX to $199, and introduces the GeForce 9800 GTX+ at $233 which supports PhysX or other CUDA programs. However, it can’t threaten HD 4850 on price or performance with that price. HD 4850 has flooded out everywhere and HD 4870 is just around the corner. It will be launch on June 25th or July 8th.

Besides, we have benchmarked two or three HD 4800 in CrossFireX, and the the review is coming soon.
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Much appreciated :)
 
well for the price of a 280gtx you could buy a crossfire mobo add to 4870's and kick the crap out of it for less money :)
 
Cool I hope they get it working, the crossfire between 3 and 4, i really want a 4870! but I don't want to let my 3870 go well not yet anyway ;) its only like 5 months old! :)
 
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