Yeah… Sapphire HD5870 Vapor-X 1GB will be my next 3D card. Why? I cannot get good performance with my old Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 Silent Efficiency 512MB on Battlefield Bad Company 2 even with middle quality setting. It’s time to change a new 3D card in coming PIKOM PC Fair. Hopefully, the trouble NVIDIA GeForce 400 series like GeForce 470 and GeForce 480 (Fermi series) come out by then and can reduce the ATI display card price a bit. Sapphire HD5870 Vapor-X 1GB is hanging at RM1399 for quite some time…
Help… My Panasonic TX-32LX75M TV HDMI cannot work with PC. The story goes like this… I bought a HDMI cable from Carrefour last month. It was a value HDMI cable. I tried to connect my girl friend notebook BenQ Joybook S42 to the TV with this new cable. However, I failed to get a clear picture on my Panasonic TV. It does not have problem to display at 1366×768 resolution while using PC Mini D-sub 15-pin cable. I have a clear picture. However, it failed when using HDMI cable. By the way, the BenQ Joybook S42 laptop is using Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT display card. I tried different resolutions but still failed. And I don’t believe that Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT is causing the issue. Therefore, I brought my new desktop to the living room to test. I used Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 to test. But the result is same ~ blur text and not sharp at all.
Did have a faulty HDMI cable? Well, I asked my friend to test it for me. And it is working on his TV. So it is not Carrefour value HDMI cable issue…
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 Silent Efficiency 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E Review
09 Mar
Posted by Jayce as Hardware
Introduction
After AMD took over ATI… ATI Radeon HD 4800 series broke lot of benchmark scores and they are selling at a very attractive price range too. There are lot of model in HD 4800 series like 4830, 4850 and 4870. And we have 512MB, 1GB and 2GB version of video memory to choose from. Not to mention X2 series like 4850 X2 and 4870 X2. There one that I have is Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 Silent Efficiency 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E. How does it perform? Read on to find out…
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 Silent Efficiency 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E
Yes. I got myself a SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E. It is silent efficiency edition. The heat sink is different than the reference design heat sink. And it looks cooler too. I am looking forward to see its performance in action. Can’t wait to play games with it.
SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E box
Continued from Cooler Master Geminii S (風神鍛) CPU Cooler
Nvidia and ATI AMD produce good quality 3D graphics processing unit (GPU). Which display card should I choose? I plan to have a 22″ LCD monitor. I need a display card that can power 1680 x 1050 px at playable games speed. Both Nvidia and AMD have multi GPU functionality which is SLI for Nvidia and CF for AMD. However, you can’t find much SLI motherboard in the market because only Nvidia chipset and certain Intel chipset like x38 and x48 support SLI. Therefore, CF is my only choice for the moment.
SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E
