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Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 512MB Video Card
Introduction
I have always had problems endorsing the sub-hundred dollar video card. Usually, for an amount less than the video game you intend to play, you can get a card that can actually play said game, unless you really don't care about turning the detail setting up--which, as far as I'm concerned, is the way the developers intended it. They come with lots of RAM and no hardware to drive it, inadequate, bottom-dollar cooling, and disappointment. But I'm about to tell you that the HD 4670 isn't a complete waste. I know, weird, right? Now, it's just one of many options, which I'll get to here in a minute. But for the first time since ever, eighty bucks'll let you play the Orange Box, Unreal Tournament 3, and yes, Crysis. Well, Crysis, admittedly, not on High. But everything else maxed out, with anti-aliasing, and at your display's native resolution. It's been a long time since PC gaming has been an everyman's persuasion, and thanks to ATI, it is again, even if you're sticking with NVIDIA. Sapphire's sent me one of their industry-redeeming little wonders. It's a stock affair, but, you know, there's nothing wrong with that.     The Card & Bundle Sapphire's entry is not so unleet that it goes without blue PCB. The heatsink is smallish, but the fan is actually larger than the one on a 4850, even if the heatsink is aluminum and not copper. There's some memory around the GPU, un-sunk, along with capacitors, both aluminum and electrolytic, crystallizers, and coils. After the slew of new cards I've seen, it's a little anachronistic.     A single-slot card, there are still two CrossFire connectors at the top, something I'm sure won't get used too often. The PCB is barely longer than the PCI-Express connectors, and it has no use for auxiliary power.    There are two DVI connectors and one video-out DIN, with adapters as follows: one composite, one component, one HDMI, and one VGA. There's a CD with the manual, guides, and driver. It's a sample driver as AMD, at the time of writing, doesn't support the 4670 with their Catalyst drivers. It appears to be based off of driver version 8.5.
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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