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Post Icrontic reviews AMD's Radeon HD4870

And comes out quite pleased. Read on to find out what Mas0n liked so much about it.
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Well done mas0n!
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Great write-up, mas0n! What a fantastic card. If I were to buy a card today, this would be it!
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Nice review Mas0n! kinda makes me want to get rid of my 8800gts 640!!
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I've been impressed with your developing insight into PCs, Matthew, and the freedom with which you share some of them. The Folding information was a nice touch and if you're into it, Zuntar, you may want to hang on to that GTS until they update the F@H GPU client- cause the GTS pwns it and even my HD3870 pretty much outdoes this board.

I think this series could be rescuing AMD right now from an otherwise unknown fate. It apparently scales uncommonly well in X2 and multi-GPU configurations. I'm tempted, but I'm too much into Folding to jump (hint, hint) and have been actually perusing nVidia for that reason.

Good job!
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The 3800 saved them from an unknown future. The 4800 series cements it.
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Thanks for the compliments! I think my next article may need to be on some aftermarket coolers for this beast. So far I have a Xigmatek Battle-Axe and Thermaltake DuOrb.

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Great review. They haven't shrunk the card size I see.

Why no comparison benchmarks?
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Great review. They haven't shrunk the card size I see.

Why no comparison benchmarks?
I'm glad you liked the review. I don't forsee board sizes changing significantly anytime soon. I think the market has established sizes that consumers will tolerate and the manufacturers will continue to cram as much as they can into these form factors. Also, if you look at the pictures of the VRM area on this board you can see that there is room for expansion. This makes it easier to release higher end parts in the future using the existing package.

Unfortunately I did not have any other cards available at the time of review. However, I tried to pick benchmarks that people are familiar enough with that a fairly accurate assessment could be made.
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