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PowerColor PCS+ HD 4870 1GB GDDR5 - Faster Yet Cooler?

By Kenny Yeo - 8 Sep 2008

Conclusion

Flawed Beauty

By being one of the first to release an overclocked Radeon HD 4870, PowerColor has set the benchmark pretty high for other vendors. Though it is generally a capable performer, there are however, some problems with it - the main issue being its suggested retail price of S$487.

Yes, it does perform better than a comparably priced GTX 260, and yes, it does run really cool. But for S$399, you could get yourself a standard Radeon HD 4870, and while it might have half the memory, you'll be hard pressed to find any noticeable difference in performance unless you insist on running Crysis on the highest settings at 1920 x 1440 or greater.

The Professional Cooling System certainly does the job then, and it'll be interesting to see if rival vendors can go one up on what the PCS has achieved here.

However, if you have your hearts set on an overclocked Radeon HD 4870, you should know that there are more overclocked versions of the Radeon HD 4870 upcoming from other vendors. So a wait-and-see attitude may be the wiser choice. In the meantime, the PowerColor PCS+ HD 4870 is just about the best performing Radeon HD 4870 card out there at the moment. That is if you can justify spending that extra S$90 and can tolerate that obscenely loud fan.

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