Palit Radeon HD 4870 DirectX 10.1 AE=4870S+0552 512MB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: Faster than my 8800GS. Shorter than a standard 4870 and saves SATA ports. Seriously fast. @1280x1024, you can play Crysis with the ULTRA quality mod at 30-40 fps. Absolutely lovely!

Cons: Non reference board = harder to volt mod. Oh well. Doesn't overclock much. Only 100% stable at 800core.

Overall Review: THe dual bios is brilliant. I tried to bios mod and card and BAM!!! Bricked. Just reach around and flick the swith, reboot, and you're back in business. I love this card!!!

Pros: Gpu keeps very cool in a warm room on load @ 59 C. Just like the other reviewr said you can overclock to 800 core clock but can go further as I have mine at 830 and memory 1160 played cysis excellent fan speed 71% gpu stay @ 41 c on idle

Cons: no crossfire bridge but you can email palit to get them free of charge they sent me two after they told me I didnt need two for two cards

Pros: Fast and reasonably quiet. I find that fan noise is only noticeable above about 60% on my system, and it stays well below this during normal operation (not gaming).

Cons: I've found that I must underclock this card to 700MHz to get it to run stably in Crysis. My system is well-cooled (system temps are around 40C and CPU temps around 35C at maximum load), but even if I manually set the fan to 100% I get display corruption at full clock speed. This corruption occurs when Catalyst is reporting the card temperature to be about 70-72C maximum at 750MHz. With it underclocked to 700MHz maximum temp is around 65C, and I don't see corruption. However, I'm finding that 700MHz gives acceptable performance.

Overall Review: Fan control and overclocking is easy using AMD's Catalyst control center. I'm running this with Vista X64 and the 8.10 Catalyst drivers. My system has 4GB RAM, and a Q6600 CPU at stock clock speed. Most of the reviews I read for this card and other 4870 cards seem to indicate I should not get corruption at 72C, so I wonder if there is a problem with my card. This seems especially possible since others are reporting good overclocking with this card.

Pros: great card gonna buy another one soon. says its at 121 gbs comp usa claimed its at 115 stock big improvement from palit

Cons: couldnt get crysis on very high settings may have to use lower resolutions

Pros: still running strong

Cons: I just realized that it doesnt have the cross bridge e/bay has them though

Pros: Everything about this card is a pro. Great features, easy install with the drivers. this card is a great deal.

Cons: none so far

Pros: Great performance, good value!

Cons: Palit loses an egg due to customer service. The card is great, but the company leaves a little to be desired.

Overall Review: I ordered two Palit AE=4870S+0452 Radeon HD 4870 512MB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail in September, just over a month from writing this review. Those cards only had the Display Port option and when I contacted Palit to see if there was an HDMI alternative out or in the works I was told there wasn't. Less than a month later these cards are released with HDMI. There is no upgrade option (like with BFG Tech) and when I contacted Palit to see if it was possible to do a return/exchange (I would pay shipping and any difference) I was ignored before finally receiving a rather sarcastic email about a week later. So I am stuck with the cards I ordered. If I would have known that this model was coming out I would definitely have waited and picked up two of these instead. That being said these cards are amazing and the dual BIOS is awesome. Mine runs in Turbo all the time and I have no issues with heat or noise.

Pros: Amazing card. Runs cool, fast and reliably. Intially ran quietly as well. Core runs stable at 800 if you would like to overclock. I personally see no reason to go up to that when the card runs at 775 in turbo mode.

Cons: After awhile (few weeks) the small fan, which has no speed other than 100%, starts to die a slow and whiny death. Initially it was barely audible but the rattling got worse as days progressed. I solved the problem by unplugging the small fan altogether and used riva to fix my large fan speed to 69%(for some reason this speed is far quieter than 70%). Card idles at 46C and reaches 59C Max during gaming and heating tests(ATITool fur cube) with the new settings. Whats funny is that it idled at 50C with the small fan running at 100% and the large one being regulated by temps. Max temps went slightly above 60C with its original configuration.

Overall Review: I jumped the gun and got the non-hdmi output version of this card for 5 bucks more. Oh well i dont need an hdmi output anyways with an adapter. Give the fans some test runs on temps with the case closed and you will see that the small fan is really not necessary and will only cause pain in the future. The small fan didnt fail, I just unplugged it before it had a chance to. The small fan is all show, no go.