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HIS Radeon 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo 1GB review

A new OC'd GPU from the HIS team, but can it take the fight to the mighty Nvidia GTX 260?

Our Score 4

Last reviewed: 2009-04-26April 26th 2009

Price at launch £236.00
MPN H487QT1GP
Features RadeonTM HD 4870 GPU / IceQ 4+ Cooling Technology / UV sensitive
Accessories Included: ATI CrossFireXTM Bridge Interconnect / DVI to HDMI adapter / DVI to VGA adapter / Power Cable 2x 4pin in, 6 pin out
Connectivity 2 x DVI-I, Video Output
Interface PCI Express
Software Provided Driver CD
ATI Pixel Pipelines 800
GPU ATI
Graphics Core Clockspeed 770
Graphics Interface Type PCI Express x16
Graphics Memory (Mb) 1024
Graphics Memory Speed (GHz) 4
Max Supported Resolution 2560 x 1600
RAMDACs 400
Vertex Shaders 800
Video Output Dual-Link DVI

Product Summary

Radeon HD 4870 Ice Q 4+ Turbo 1GB

HIS Radeon 4870 Ice Q 4+ Turbo 1GB

Price at launch

£236.00

For

>

4870 GPU is still good

>

1GB of graphics memory

Against

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Expensive for what it is

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Not as good as the competition

Original review from


 
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