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VisionTek Radeon HD 4870 512MB Video Card
Conclusion
Picking out a video card should be a little more exciting than finding the cheapest one on the, er, "shelf" and going about your build. Unfortunately for now, the available 4870s are all stock. Performance and profiles being identical, you gotta check out boring stuff like warranties. VisionTek goes farther than other ATI partners with a limited lifetime warranty, but they really like the limited section. But what's good news is that it's hard to go wrong with three, or even six hundred dollars for any 4870 or 70s. They're superb cards that have no competition at a covetable price point. Without that competition, there's not a lot of diversity or innovation, but that's surprisingly unnecessary here. This card is a fine deal, handles any game you throw at it, uses a lot less power than it could, and does that beautiful video acceleration. AMD has set fire to ATI's old driver habits, and their Vista and Linux support is unmatched. This is a perfectly well-rounded high-performance video card, even if it's the same as all the others.  The Good 
9.5" long
Perfect video acceleration
Great single-GPU performance The Bad 
Fan runs loudly, card runs hot
Overclocking's limited
Memory bump has got to be in the works
Page 1: Introduction, First Looks, Specifications & Test Setup
Page 2: DirectX 10 Titles Page 3: DX9, OpenGL, and Synthetics Page 4: Video Quality, Power Usage & Noise, and Overclocking Page 5: Conclusion 
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4 User Comments 1 - Posted by
aireiq
on July 22, 2008 - 5:22 pm > So why choose VisionTek over, say, Sappire? Because 'Sappire' doesn't appear to sell computer hardware? 2 - Posted by
Kurtis
on July 22, 2008 - 7:50 pm Nice catch. Annnnd fixed.
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