[TPU] Diamond Releases Radeon HD 4870 XOC Unlocked Black Edition - Overclock.net

Nubcake · 06-29-08

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Diamond Multimedia (www.diamondmm.com), a leading manufacturer of PC graphics cards, sound cards and communications products, launched today along with boutique system builder Smoothcreations, and Water cooling mavens, Danger Den the ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 XOC Black Edition graphics card. This card offers exquisite gaming capabilities combined with state of the art efficiency.

The HD 4870 is a smoking gun dual slot card, PCIE 2.0, with 512MB of DDR5 memory and a clock speed of 800 MHz. The memory speed is 1100 MHz and is designed with 800 stream processors. The HD 4870 provides plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX™ upgradeability with up to quad-GPU support. Continuing with ATI’s Power Play and 55nm processing technology, this card is the fastest and efficient. “The Diamond Radeon HD 4870 XOC Black Edition was clocked to kick some ass”. We didn’t just want a fast card out in the market, we wanted the fastest card that could kick the living daylights and bust some performance records, say Mario Gastelum, Director of Product Development & Engineering. “we wanted a card that kicked the competitions teeth into the curb”, and that’s exactly what our engineers accomplished”. “The firmware was custom designed to enable end users to go beyond the normal over clocked speeds and allow them to push their cards for higher performance via the catalyst control center.” The GPU’s custom firmware has been unlocked to push cards to GPU settings of up to 950 MHz and Memory of up 1200 MHz.

Diamond Teamed up with Premier Boutique system builder, SmoothCreations, to offer these powerful graphics cards to Smoothcreations legendary beauty and performance pc system platforms. “We wanted to complement beauty, artisan craftsmanship, and performance power to a gaming system, and Diamond helped us accomplish that”, says Jim Saling, CEO of SmoothCreations. In collaboration with Danger Den, Smoothcreations will be offering a water cooled edition as well.

All Diamond video cards carry the Diamond guarantee of quality assurance. Unlike many cards that are simply first to market, Diamond carefully tests and retests every new model for its ratio of performance to reliability. Diamond is legendary in the PC video card business for its less than 1 percent return rate. Diamond cards use superior connectors, cables and components, as well as undergo more thorough testing for heat susceptibility and durability.

Availability
Diamond Multimedia’s ATI Radeon HD 4870 XOC Black Edition will be available for purchase starting July 01, 2008 and will be available Exclusively at Premier Boutique System Builder Smoothcreations.

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“The Diamond Radeon HD 4870 XOC Black Edition was clocked to kick some ass”. We didn’t just want a fast card out in the market, we wanted the fastest card that could kick the living daylights and bust some performance records, say Mario Gastelum, Director of Product Development & Engineering. “we wanted a card that kicked the competitions teeth into the curb”, and that’s exactly what our engineers accomplished”. “The firmware was custom designed to enable end users to go beyond the normal over clocked speeds and allow them to push their cards for higher performance via the catalyst control center.” The GPU’s custom firmware has been unlocked to push cards to GPU settings of up to 950 MHz and Memory of up 1200 MHz.

This guy needs to lay off on some coffee :P

Gexx · 06-29-08

awww No pics

Oh well +1.

onexero · 06-29-08

Nubcake · 06-29-08

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Originally Posted by Gexx

awww No pics

Oh well +1.

I spent 10 minutes trying to find pics on google, no dice =X I prob wanan see the pics more than you :P

FallenFaux · 06-29-08

hopefully it looks at least as good as the Diamond 4850.

bowman · 06-29-08

Unless it's got some volt mods to the reference design and a new cooler they're going to have an 'Xbox 360' on their hands here.

Gexx · 06-29-08

hopefully they give it a better HSF.

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Originally Posted by bowman

Unless it's got some volt mods to the reference design and a new cooler they're going to have an 'Xbox 360' on their hands here.

LoL, imagine that, just getting RSoD instead of RRoD :P

**The Duke** · 06-29-08

Pics you say
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814103061

GeNjii- · 06-29-08

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Originally Posted by The Duke

Pics you say
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814103061

That's the reference 4870. We want some pics of that card.

And if you missed it, this thing is not going to have stock cooler, as they have teamed up with Danger Den.

Those clocks are absurd though. I've seen one person push a 4850 to that exact core clock with a bios flash and a pencil mod.

I really want someone to push a 4870 to 1k+ on the core and say.... 5 GHZ memory? ****............

darkcloud89 · 06-29-08

I want to see what a 1GHz core HD4870 with overclocked memory could do.
Wonder if we'll ever see it...

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