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Squilliam on 27 September 2008
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ZenfoldorVGI said:
makingmusic476 said:

Bah. I prefer nvidia because their cards are smaller and produce less heat, and my tower is already pretty crammed. The fact that my motherboard supports SLi and not Crossfire is another incentive to go nvidia, as well, just in case I ever decide to get a second card in the future.

Don't give me this fanboy stuff.

 

That's not consistantly true, and it's actually a misconception.

In this cards case, for instance, it runs competely cool and is easily powered by the PCI slot, yet it manages to take advantage of that ice-cool heat sink and fan. There's no way that it'll run hot, lol.

@OP

This is actually a great deal, I'm considering getting it soon. The PC and the card. It'll run pretty much any game on the market at stardard settings and that includes Crysis, though you won't get the performance you want, and you certainly don't wanna run it on high settings, lol.

Its an awesome little card. Im seriously considering getting the 4670 for my Home theatre PC because you can output sound + video through the DVI ports on the modern radeon cards with the HDMI dongle that you get with a lot of these cards. Its quite a powerful little number anyway and ATI has hit the jackpot in the $80, $160, $240, $300 price brackets. HD 4670, HD 4850, HD 4870 and HD 4870 1gb all beat their respective Nvidia counterparts at the price ranges listed. I don't see why anyone would want to pay extra for an SLI motherboard when an Intel motherboard is better, cheaper, and does Xfire with ATI giving the beat down to Nvidia at every price point a reasonable person might pay and at the unreasonable end with the 4870 X2.

@Everyone - This is the mainstream card at the moment. High performance, easy to set up, it works in every computer that has a PCI-E slot and it won't overwhelm the stock cooling of any computer because A. It doesn't output much heat and B. It dumps the hot air out the back of the case and it would probably make your computer cooler.

 



Tease.