Date: November 5th, 2009
Article by: Nathan Glentworth (Owner / Head Editor)
Product was submitted by: HIS
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PRODUCT PICTORIAL & WALKTHROUGH
Last but not least in this section is the main connection panel. You have three choices which consist of one DVI, one analog, and an HDMI connection. There is no VIVO capabilities with this card. In addition you also have the rear exhaust port which exhaust only a portion of the videocards heat. The rest is pushed out around the rest of the cooler and into the case. I would have liked to have seen more ventilation holes in the heatsink's plastic cover to allow for better exhaust flow but the air going into the case will also cool the heatsinks attached to the card's voltage regulators.
VIDEOCARD OVERCLOCKING
With the stock values of 850Mhz core and 993Mhz memory set, I allowed ATI's auto-tune to push the card to its 100% stable ceiling. Through an hour of testing and benchmarking, it was able to find a 100% stable overclock of 990Mhz core and 1100Mhz memory. When I state a stable overclock, I mean an overclock that works and never freezes or presents artifacts during any game or benchmark.
To any overclocker with a stock card with a decent cooler, a 115Mhz core and a 107Mhz memory overclock is pretty decent. I have seen this memory overclock 50Mhz higher on other cards, but the core going up an additional 115Mhz is pretty spectacular. The cooler does its job very well.
Even when the overclock was in place, the cooler fan only ramped up 10-15% and the VPU temperature never went above 55c.
VIDEOCARD BENCHMARKING
The Testbed is comprised of:
Intel QX9770 Extreme Quad Core 3.2Ghz Processor Check Prices
Gigabyte P35-DS4 Premium Motherboard Check Prices
Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2Gig PC-8500 DDR2 Memory Check Prices
Windows Vista Ultimate Premium Check Prices
Maxtor 250gig SATA-150 HD Check Prices
PCI Express Videocards Benchmarked Against:
Sapphire Vapor-X HD4850
Sapphire HD4850 X2 Check Prices
XFX Black Edition 9800GTX+ Check Prices
XFX HD4770 Check Prices
Sapphire HD 4770 Check Prices
HIS HD4870 IcQ4+ 1Gb Check Prices
Benchmarking Programs Are:
3DMark Vantage
3DMark2006
Half Life 2 Episode 2 HOC Benchmark
Far Cry 2 ( 8x AA / 16x AF)
Quake Wars: Enemy Territory ( 8x AA / 16x AF)
Devil May Cry 4 ( 8x AA / 16x AF)
Crysis ( 8x AA / 16x AF)
Crysis WarHead ( 8x AA / 16x AF)
