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Manufacturer: Gainward
UK Price (as reviewed): £239.31 (inc. VAT)
US Price (as reviewed): N/A

Core Clock: 775MHz (In Turbo Mode)
Memory Clock: 4,000MHz (In Turbo Mode)
Memory: 1GB GDDR5
Warranty: Three years parts and labour

Since its release a couple of months back, the Radeon HD 4870 1GB has very much become the card of choice here in the bit-tech offices. Fitted with twice as much GDDR5 as the original Radeon HD 4870 (which was an excellent card to begin with), the 4870 1GB delivers very clear frame rate advantages in a number of recent games and more than justifies its ten percent price premium over the vanilla 4870 512MB.

Even with the performance boost the Nvidia GTX 260 and 280 have received from the new ForceWare 180.xx drivers, the HD 4870 1GB still remains extremely competitive in the high end graphics market, trading blows throughout our battery of tests with the GTX 260 (216 core version).

However, because AMD gives more freedom to its board partners to modify PCBs, components and coolers, we’re now starting to see the first custom HD 4870 1GBs arrive into the market. Gainward’s Radeon HD 4870 1024MB Golden Sample is the first we’ve looked at - can the extra boost to clock speeds and improved cooler strike a killer blow for the red team? Let’s find out...
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Just installed one of these in my cousins new rig last week, it's awesome!

These new radeon's really shine with some AA on.

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Just installed one of these in my cousins new rig last week, it's awesome!

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Yeah ati is really good now I tried Far Cry 2 with my X2 and when I set 4x AA I only loose 1-2fps

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Yeah ati is really good now I tried Far Cry 2 with my X2 and when I set 4x AA I only loose 1-2fps
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Yeah But if I set it to 8x AA I loose 20fps, so I keep it at 4x AA
haha allright.

I just got a good deal on a 900gtx + (only had to pay about 50$ when changed my g92 gts), will be intresting to see how it performs.

I know nvidia + AA = but otherwise it should be pretty good, and should overclock like a beast, since it has got this cooler :

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1. Its a 9800gtx +
2. My gts is already sold and the gtx should arrive today
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lol xD

Well I would at least got a gtx260 or a 4870 1gb at least
maybe im to spoiled with my x2 lol

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