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Palit Radeon HD 4870 512mb Sonic Dual Edition |
Conclusion
The Palit HD4870 Sonic Dual Edition is a great card, not just on performance but also on price, it competes even with the top end Nvidia GPU at the moment pretty well for a much lower price. I have long been a fan of both nVidia and ATI, but with the 4870 series of cards, ATI has really upped their game and this version of the card from Palit also helps out with a much improved fan over the reference board as well as the easy option of slightly overclocking the card thanks to its Dual-Bios. The performances in all of the games we have tested has been very good, we have had the odd crash here and there, mostly in Lord of the Rings online where it seems a lot of cards are crashing with their latest update to the DirectX 10 code, but overall the card has done well.
Hopefully we will see more of Palit in the future both with the ATI cards and with the nVidia models and we hope to cover their hardware here even more. This is a great start for them and one that shows that they can complete with some of the best both in value and design. An excellent card overall.
| How It Grades |
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Installation:
93% Ease Of Use: 89% Speed: 93% Features: 92% Drivers: 90% Design: 89% Manual: 90% Price: 90% Overall: 91% |
Feel free to comment on the review here.
| Specs & Package | |
| Overall Score | 91% |
| Version Reviewed | Palit Radeon HD4870 512mb |
| Release Date | Out Now |
| In The Box? |
1 Palit Radeon HD4870 512mb Graphics
Card Drivers CD Power Adapter Cable S-Video Cable VGA - DVI Adapter |
| The Good Points |
Great Value DirectX 10.1 Support Plays all the latest titles Easy overclocking button |
| The Bad Points |
Still some driver issues Games not fully DirectX 10 optimised yet |
| Reviewers PC Setup |
Intel Quad Q6600 CPU Asus P5E Intel Motherboard Crucial 4GB DDR2 Memory 500GB Samsung SpinPoint SATA Drive Sony 16x DVD-RW SATA Drive Logitech 2.1 Speakers |
