XFX HD-487A-ZDFC Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail

Reviewed By: hecto on 7/15/2009

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Excellent performance, especially for the price. When set to automatic, fan is fairly quiet.

Cons: Card runs hot: 75C at idle with 20% fan, and up to 85C with 30% fan when playing demanding 3D games such as Crysis. It's possible to enable manual fan control through the Catalyst Control Panel, but fan noise became noticeable over the rest of the system beyond 35%.

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HOT.

Reviewed By: Mike on 7/15/2009

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Fast. Runs all my games great. My Q6600 at 2.4 GHz is now the bottleneck

Cons: RUNS HOT AS HELL! Make sure to install the catalyst control center and enable ATI Overdrive, then put the fan at about 40%

Other Thoughts: It had LEDs on the pc board! Not sure why but they are red and they blink once on boot.

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Reviewed By: yarps on 7/6/2009

Tech Level: average - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: very nice card. runs crysis/codWaW on max settings on 1920x1080 and playable frames.

Cons: runs at 50c idle

Other Thoughts: gotta tune the fan up to about 30% fans off otherwise O.o. picking up another one of these bad boys and soon a 3rd ;)

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