MSI OC 4870 out now

[tuteja1986]

MSI R4870-T2D512 OC Radeon HD 4870

Selling at newegg :
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814127358

Mini Review :
http://translate.google.com/tr...e&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

 

[ZimZum]

sexy

 

[Sylvanas]

So 780mhz core and 4ghz stock? Nice. Good to see some of these OC editions trickling in, especially if we see that Diamond XOC anytime soon- but I couldn't buy this card myself knowing I could get the same results in 30seconds OCing a reference version myself .

 

[Captante]

Shame they didn't do somthing in the way of improved cooling.

 

[Creig]

I'm not sure why some sites keep referring to a 1GB/overclocked 4870 as a Super RV770. From what I've read, an actual Super RV770 is going to be equipped with a waterblock in addition to being overclocked and having 1GB RAM.

Although to be honest, I can't really foresee ATI placing a water-only cooler on the card if they expect to sell them in quantity. Not THAT many people use water cooling, especially with the excellent properties of heatpipe equipped heatsinks. I would be more inclined to believe that it will be an air/water hybrid cooler that can function without water, but will be able to cool much more effectively on a water loop and thus be capable of higher GPU clockspeeds.

 

[phexac]

Uh the card on that page has regular specs....

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: Creig
I'm not sure why some sites keep referring to a 1GB/overclocked 4870 as a Super RV770. From what I've read, an actual Super RV770 is going to be equipped with a waterblock in addition to being overclocked and having 1GB RAM.

Probably because it would be a million times more practical. All the RV770 really needs is 1GB of GDDR5, making it super from there is something any user can do. And I don't think there is an official 'Super RV770' in the pipe, its just something the board partners can come up with on their own and these sites you're referring to talk about, giving such products their own moniker to discern it from the more typical cards.

Although to be honest, I can't really foresee ATI placing a water-only cooler on the card if they expect to sell them in quantity.

It isn't entirely unfeasible, it goes a long way to have the absolute fastest card on the market to play a sort of iconic role. nVidia has done it quite a bit in the past with very rare/limited supply of similar 'super' cards packing the absolute best cherry picked and overclocked chips paired with the absolute fastest ram. The next natural step would be upping the ante with cooling.

But I don't think such a move would be something AMD would officially go after themselves seeing as how they have the 4870X2 to fill that flagship role.