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Palit HD 4870 1GB Sonic Dual Edition Review

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Palit HD 4870 1GB Sonic Dual Edition Review
Published by Shripad
7 Oct 08
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Hi Guys!

It has been interesting year so far for the graphics card market. This year has seen rebirth of the gamer’s card with the red team bouncing back strongly and finally offering gamer on budget cards that actually do perform well.
After almost 2 years of complete domination of enthusiast gaming market, for the first time NVIDIA is made to sweat to keep its market share. And as if 4870 and 4850 512MB versions were not enough to cause NVIDIA enough headache, ATI recently launched 1GB DDR5 version of its HD4870 graphics card to battle against the new 216 shader version of GTX260.
Today I am taking look at the Palit’s HD4870 1GB Sonic Dual Edition card. Palit has released Sonic editions of other cards as well in the past with different heatsink fan assembly. And it is indeed great to see manufacturer offer something better and different than the vanilla stock version.



Lets have a look at the card.

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By sangram on 7 Oct 08, 02:22 PM
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Nice review, though I think I missed the price somewhere.

I really wish you could test at higher resolutions, which is where the 1GB framebuffer would come into its own. I don't see the point of a huge memory and running only 1680x, the memory would help much more at 1920x and 2560x. I understand this depends on the monitors you have available for the test, which is why it's even more surprising as you had 1920 in one of the tests and then none.

This is obviously not a solution for me, AFAIK, but I'll wait for more tests at max resolutions.
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By Shripad on 7 Oct 08, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by sangram
Nice review, though I think I missed the price somewhere.

I really wish you could test at higher resolutions, which is where the 1GB framebuffer would come into its own. I don't see the point of a huge memory and running only 1680x, the memory would help much more at 1920x and 2560x. I understand this depends on the monitors you have available for the test, which is why it's even more surprising as you had 1920 in one of the tests and then none.

This is obviously not a solution for me, AFAIK, but I'll wait for more tests at max resolutions.
Yup, I do have 1080P ready monitor. but its 16:9 resolution TV Thats why you can see 1920x1080 resolution in 1 gaming test. And 1 1920x1200 test was done when friend's dell landed here at my place for a day. Couldnt complete all tests that day as even this motherboard was to ship out the next day.

If someone sends me a 24incher for review and for keepers, i will start including high resolution results

its really difficult to keep moving test rig to the televiosion set and back in my room.

As far as the price goes. This is not yet available in India in retail afaik. I couldnt find it in stock with anyone. All say it is expected soon. US retail pricing is same as any other HD4870 1GB card. around $300.
Last edited by Shripad : 7 Oct 08 at 02:33 PM.
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By Gunman on 7 Oct 08, 03:41 PM
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Nice review as always Shripad.

PS: Hope u've recovered from the illness.
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By Jasku on 7 Oct 08, 03:54 PM
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fantastic review, wonder how much this card would retail locally?!..

Edit- feel bad that i have the stock cooled 4870
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By ultimabasher on 7 Oct 08, 05:35 PM
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Nice review mate.

Hey shripad, when are you going to review 4870x2??
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By panther on 7 Oct 08, 05:41 PM
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Great purchase, wow!! i am coming at you place to see with my eyes.. what was the damage?
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By fcry64 on 7 Oct 08, 06:52 PM
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good review m8..
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By ArZuNeOs on 7 Oct 08, 07:02 PM
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nice review boss

What is the damage
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  #9  
By satanofgamers on 7 Oct 08, 07:28 PM
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as usual awesome review.... any idea at wht price will it retail here ????
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By saintsinner on 7 Oct 08, 11:46 PM
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Well reviewed. I have the 512MB version. I find it a tiny bit noisy as only one fan is temprature controlled. and yea, the 2 bios function is really cool. mine runs on turbo
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By kin_of_evil on 8 Oct 08, 08:10 AM
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Nice review!! Any details on the price?
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By timbak on 9 Oct 08, 03:52 PM
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Nice review. Hope the price is as good as the performance.
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By H@cKer on 12 Oct 08, 12:31 AM
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superb review man one of my friend won a 4870(not this one) in our college techfest lucky him.
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By gamervivek on 12 Oct 08, 03:32 AM
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