Gainward HD4870X2 golden sample

[Cookie Monster]

link

:shocked:

 

[disports]

lol taking up three slots..what is going on? :X

 

[Denithor]

First? Nope...

 

[Quiksilver]

second card tri-slot card.
But they are the same company so...

 

[Cookie Monster]

Originally posted by: Denithor
First? Nope...

Palit and gainward are the same company

 

[vj8usa]

Yeah, can't say I see the point of this. According to the article, Gainward's a part of Palit, and both their tri slot 4870 X2s are the same. I guess this will cater to people that don't realize they're the same company, and like one brand name over the other.

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster

Originally posted by: Denithor
First? Nope...

Palit and gainward are the same company

True, but according to the article, this was released "right after" the Palit card, so the Gainward technically isn't the first one. Not like it really matters, since they're equivalent hardware.

 

[Spike]

Dang thats a beast. I guess if you don't care for SLI/Xfire then three slot cards are not an issue. Personally it would ok by me as long as the thing was completely silent, could overclock higher than anything on the planet, and make me a sandwitch.

 

[Ichigo]

OHHHH

golden *SAMPLE*

I totally read that incorrectly

 

[taltamir]

it has:
1 DVI
1 VGA
1 Display Port
1 HDMI port

... I like the variety, I don't like the obsolete connectors. Should have been two DVI and Two display ports with a DVI-HDMI and DVI-VGA convertors provided. Since HDMI is DVI in different form and some of the connectors on the DVI port are analog VGA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...al_Interface#Connector

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: Ichigo
OHHHH

golden *SAMPLE*

I totally read that incorrectly

Gainward used to have the best names, along the lines of "Rampaging Golden Imperial Duckling" and stuff like that.

I offfered an Ebay seller $700. for their water cooled 6800 Ultra once, and got turned down.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: nRollo

Originally posted by: Ichigo
OHHHH

golden *SAMPLE*

I totally read that incorrectly

Gainward used to have the best names, along the lines of "Rampaging Golden Imperial Duckling" and stuff like that.

I offfered an Ebay seller $700. for their water cooled 6800 Ultra once, and got turned down.

Find me a Volari V8 duo, I still want one so bad

 

[F1shF4t]

Originally posted by: nRollo

Originally posted by: Ichigo
OHHHH

golden *SAMPLE*

I totally read that incorrectly

Gainward used to have the best names, along the lines of "Rampaging Golden Imperial Duckling" and stuff like that.

I offfered an Ebay seller $700. for their water cooled 6800 Ultra once, and got turned down.

I spent exactly 1169 AU dollars for my 6800 ultra at launch (You literally couldn't get it anywhere early on for like 3 months in Australia), was an awesome card and going from a FX5700 it was ridiculously fast in comparison, it got replaced with a pcie 7800gt for free in a year cause the card started to fail.

Hey Rollo that defective video decoder in those cards was the reason I joined these forums originally

Its too bad the first revision of their dual fan cards had the 70mm fan full pelt (4870 512MB) otherwise they are pretty good cards.

Originally posted by: dug777
Find me a Volari V8 duo, I still want one so bad

I still want a fx5800 ultra just to see how much it sucked :laugh:

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: Dark Cupcake

I still want a fx5800 ultra just to see how much it sucked :laugh:

It sucked exactly as much as the HD4870*- it was the second fastest GPU you could buy the day it launched. The 9700 was notably better at DX9, but by the time DX9 started becoming a real issue, both cards were woefully slow as the X800 and 6800 series had doubled their DX9 performance.

The biggest deal with the FX5800Ultra was the noise- it is probably the most noticeable card ever in terms of fan noise. I'm sure this card with two fans generates half the noise.



*which is not to say it "sucked" - it was just second best- it was a big leap forward from the GF4.


NOTE- I will not participate in a debate of the pros/cons of FX5800s in this thread- if someone feels we must waste the time going over that ancient history yet again I'd be happy to post my experience with 5800s and 9700/9800s in a thread dedicated to it.

 

[Denithor]

How much bigger can video cards get? Just when it seems they cannot grow anymore due to physical limitations (ie length) the card makers find a new direction to expand.

One of these days you'll have to buy a separate case/PSU just to house your GPU and two or three cables will connect it to the PCIe slots on your motherboard.

 

[AmberClad]

Originally posted by: Denithor
One of these days you'll have to buy a separate case/PSU just to house your GPU and two or three cables will connect it to the PCIe slots on your motherboard.

Or they'll have to revise the ATX spec to accommodate these increasingly bigger and hotter cards.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: AmberClad

Originally posted by: Denithor
One of these days you'll have to buy a separate case/PSU just to house your GPU and two or three cables will connect it to the PCIe slots on your motherboard.

Or they'll have to revise the ATX spec to accommodate these increasingly bigger and hotter cards.

The last time someone tried to revise the ATX spec, we got the BTX spec and all hell broke loose. Too many people are tied up in ATX to be willing to break from it. The only way a new spec could work is if it was backwards compatible with ATX, which fundamentally means you can't really change anything.

 

[AmberClad]

I thought BTX never really took off because ever since Prescott got replaced, there hasn't been a need for it.

There was that ridiculous Foxconn demo motherboard a while back, which had 10 slots. And there are chassis like some versions of the Tt Xaser IV that support 10 slot motherboards. So it's not like people aren't willing to bend the rules a bit, to get a bit more performance .

 

[Tempered81]

Originally posted by: nRollo
which is not to say it "sucked" - it was just second best- it was a big leap forward from the GF4.

I thought 4870 is tied for 4th best of single cards?

1. 4870x2
2. 4850x2
3. gtx280
4. hd4870/gtx260

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: jaredpace

Originally posted by: nRollo
which is not to say it "sucked" - it was just second best- it was a big leap forward from the GF4.

I thought 4870 is tied for 4th best of single cards?

1. 4870x2
2. 4850x2
3. gtx280
4. hd4870/gtx260

Sure thing- but I never mentioned "cards", I said:

Originally posted by: nRollo
It sucked exactly as much as the HD4870*- it was the second fastest GPU you could buy the day it launched.

Which is correct- the day the 4870 launched it was the second fastest GPU. There weren't any Core 216s, there weren't any X2s, all that stuff was months down the road.

To some people, cards like the X2s and GX2s aren't even considered anyway. Ask BFG or n7 what the fastest cards are and they'll rank them GTX280>HD4870/Core 216>etc because multi GPU solutions are not an option they'd consider due to the tradeoffs. Blacklash on Rage3d just gave up his 4870X2s to use a single GTX260.

Personally I like multi GPU, and the new Gainward/Palit cards.