XFX Radeon HD 4870 HD-487A-ZWFC Video Card

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works good as long as u have really good airflow to keep it cool i have 3 120mm fans and it runs at 75c at full load my old case had 2 120mm fans and it ran at 85c at full load so make sure u have plenty of air flow before u buy this card

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I have no idea how well this card works. I wanted a fairly decent card, but required an S-video out for a legacy device. The product description states that it had this (the product description still has this as a feature, even though the RMA tech stated that he would bring this up to whoever is in charge of that sort of thing. Aparrently they cut and pasted the spec's from the ATI reference card, without checking if they differed from the XFX design). 99% of the people buying this card wouldn't care less, but unfortunately, for me, it was a deal breaker. To give the company credit, I was able to return it fairly easy, and was out only the shipping cost to return it. Caveat emptor, as they say.

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I have a few diffrent brands of 4870's. this one has the egg like cooler which seems to be so they could sell the card for cheaper and save some money.. ohhh boy did this thing over heat im talking 90c at idle with 70% fan speed my other XFX 4870 with the full cooler stays at 30c idle and 70c max load which is about right. it is a good card in general but this cooler stuck.. had to RMA but this company will always take care of you.

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this card is an excellent card for the money, have had it over 2 months and still it works perfectly. Only complaint is that it does run a little hot but as long as you have good ventilation in your system you will be fine.

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The card tends to run a little hot around 68c on average in my system, and the cooling system is rather cheap. The fan runs load and is rather annoying, and i honestly was expecting a little more performance from from the card. there are better cards out now that are in a similar price range. I recommend searching a little longer for a better card.

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Runs hot enough to cook your CPU. I made the mistake of getting two of these to run in Xfire. Big, big mistake. You better have a water block cooling system for these, but wait, if you remove the piss.poor cooling solution you void the warranty. The supplied sink and fan ducting is laughable. Runs under normal load at 90 Celcius, easily. And after owning them for a month or so the fans will begin to rattle like peas in a tin can. Since Ex.FU.Ex used such a POS fan there is no bearing to lubricate to stop the noise. XFX no longer carries the card so get to break down your system and send the entire unit in for RMA for one shatty fan. Assuming you haven't cooked the card and or your CPU in the interim. Avoid this junk card. Get something else. Anything else.

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Without touching ATI overdrive 80% of my games will crash from 3-20 minutes in and black screen my computer(forcing hard restart). After much testing and trials I can only assume that XFX uses memory chips that barely make the grade, underclocking my video memory by 100mhz and running the fan z 100% is the only way to guarantee some stability with this card. I've googled the issue and most people that have the instant black screen followed by 5-10 sec of game audio then have to restart, have an XFX card, and many are the 4870. Games still run great, in Bad Company 2 I get max settings at 1680x1050 w/2 AA no HBAO with 40-55fps, though with stock clocks I imagine I could push 4x AA with the same framerates.The next card I put in this i7 rig, ati or nvidia, I am not choosing XFX for a vendor.

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This card is breezing through all my video games with ease. My HAF 932 AMD special edition case keeps it and my phenom ii 965 black edition chillin. No heat issues whatsoever. COD, Dragon, Battlefield 2, NFS Shift. Going to add a second in crossfire im so happy with it. Glad to get rid of my gtx 275 junker any day.

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Cost effective design if you have a decent case Reviewer: Rich on Dec 11, 2009 i HIGHLY DOUBT YOU HAVE 66C UNDER HEAVY LOAD ,I HAVE 2 in x-fire IN A ANTEC 900 CASE WITH LOTS OF AIR FLOW!!!! AND THEY RUN AT 75C TO 80C in c r y sis which is fine for these cards! no need to worry!you only get your scores if your water cooled OR playing pac-man! lol

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This card is great for the money. Handled most things I threw at it fine. It's a great price per dollar. xfx has great support and double lifetime warranty. I liked this video card unfortunately the one I got started giving me problems down the month and so I returned it to NCIX and instead of getting new one I Decided to save for a 5870. I'd reccomend this card if your on a budget.

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Got this to replace a 1 year old, ATI 3650 Gig version, witch was a great card until I got a new 22 inch screen. and now I can run Far cry with 8xAA, at 1600x1200, maxeed settings, at 380 fps tops!!! Far Cry 2 4xAA, very high settings, at 1368x968, at about 80FPS maybe more, and crysis with 4xAA, 1280x1024, high settings. and the only thing it bonged down a little bit with was crysis about 30 to 55 fps because crysis is crysis!!!!! like the durned hardest game ever to run other thoughts: PC specs Intel core 2 duo E8200 2.6 ghz, 4 gig of 1066mhz kingston RAM, 550Watt ATX PSU, 320 gig hard drive, MSI motherbord and this baby. I plan to overclock to like 3.1 or 3.3 ghz and that should give me some more FPS in crysis

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Why is this so cheap? Because people don't notice the "little things" that make this really bad: Blows air INTO case, raising all temps, takes up nearly 3 mATX slots (had to remove my sound card), requires a proper ventilated case, need 2-6 pin connectors instead of 1 like most cards. I recommend this only to serious gamers who have good case ventilation and noise isolation in there cases.

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This really kicks the crap outta most nvidia cards at a cheaper price. If you don't care much for dx11, get this card since the new ones are a bit overpriced relative to this card's performance.

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running with windows 7, Phenom II, MSI MoBo... easy as cheese and works like a charm.. I also think XFX did a good job on the packaging.

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Upgraded from an old All in wonder 800XL... so it was quite a leap. It works very well for it's price, I can play most of the games I play at max/ultra settings, and get max FPS. Only con is the fan is loud... but thats not a problem, my room is pretty loud with other fans going, so it kind of blends in. Great card for the price.

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Great card, a definite buy if you have decent air circulation in your case. Double lifetime warranty can't be beat. I bought two of these cards about 7 weeks ago to run 3 monitors. Installed them and was getting 65C at idle and 87C under 97% load with 90% fan speed. I felt this was hot so I cut a hole in the side of my case and added a 120mm fan aimed at the cards for about $15. That brought idle to 55C and full load down to 66C at 21% fan speed which, I am quite comfortable with and it quieted the cards down a lot. To be fair you can't expect old or low end cases to support performance cards without a little thermal management, right. I can run Farcry and all my Command and Conquer games at highest settings on my 28'' 1920 x 1200 center monitor from Tiger. I turn on the side monitors at 1600 x 1200 for work and some games. Still trying to get all 3 monitors to work on Farcry though. Rebate checks arrived already. Would buy again.

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I bought this when it was on sale for close to 100$ after MIR for that price i could'n let it pass. it was a great value and great performance. Also it is quite silent.

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It is hard to beat this cards performance and price. The cooler on it runs silent and keep the card nice and cool. Performs great when gaming. This review was modfied by poster @ 12-06-09 11:14 AM

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Back a month ago, I was deciding to go for either a 5770 or two 4870. I end up buying two 4870s because the price of two 4870s was almost $100 cheaper than a 5770 and almost perform as well - without the DX11 of cause.DX11 and eyefinity is something nice to have, but not a lot of games out there support such technology yet, and by the time most games support these features, I figured that 7770 (or whatever you call them in the future) will be out and I can spend the money saved today on two 5870s or even 6870s.Did have some trouble running Borderlands but its more of the game issue than Drivers / Hardware. CoD MW2 runs PERFECT with MAX output.Installed my 4870s on a i5 750 running at 4.15GHz OCed

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It's a good card for the price. Run all my games perfectly. Warranty is great when you sell your card later. The only complain I have is about the MIR which I didn't receive last time from XFX.