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Diamond Radeon HD 4870 512MB Video Card
Conclusion
The only adversary any 4870 has is other 4870s. People have fewer brand favorites in the ATI camp simply because manufacturers have been slow to vary the high-end models, let alone policies. People end up buying from one company because they save $10 over some other brand's identical card. Diamond's in a good position to develop a community fashioned after eVGA and other massive NVIDIA partners. The only thing holding them back is their short, limited warranty. Their service is about right. One year, no overclocking, no modding. For a company that's hip-deep in gaming, they're not very fun. So that's it about Diamond: good packaging, nice bundle, no cheesecake, and lots of support, provided you follow all their rules. The 4870 still deserves commendation: it's an impressive card at a very good price. But I can't wait to see some better cooling.  Pros Perfect video acceleration Great single-GPU performance Gonna get my customer service on, yeah Cons Fan runs loudly Low overclocking ceiling ...and it's not permitted
Page 1: Introduction, The Card & Bundle
Page 2: Specifications and Setup Page 3: DirectX 10 Titles Page 4: DX9, OpenGL, and Synthetics Page 5: Video, Power, and Overclocking Page 6: Conclusion 
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2 User Comments 1 - Posted by
alganonim
on July 6, 2008 - 4:17 am Ports : Dual DVI,HDTV-out with VIVO ??? VIVO is for Video In, Video Out , I'm sure there's no 4870 model with VIVO so far, call it TiVO if you must ...
2 - Posted by
Max Slowik
on July 7, 2008 - 3:22 pm That's pulled straight from their website, and it's gotta be a typo of "Avivo", the video playback processing engine of all HD ATI cards.
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