
Card

Front fan area

Dual Fans

Heatpipes
The second selling point of this card is the Dual Fan cooling system used on the card. The cooling system is a dual 120mm fan system that has heat pipes coming out of the card. This should effectively cool the card during both normal and overclocked operation. The card is a dual-slot video card meaning that the cooling solution requires two open adjacent slots to install. Dual fans tend to make a lot of noise and this solution is no exception. The cooler with two fans is very loud even at idle.

Rear of PCB

Single fan

Crossfire bridges

Capacitors
One thing that most high-end cards have had in recent years is the ability to run together with one, two or even three other cards of the same chip in CrossfireX mode. The Palit card has two Crossfire bridges to enable daisy chaining of multiple cards. If you have four video cards with the same chip and enough PCI Express x16 slots and room in the case, you can run four HD 4870 cards together in the same system at the same time.

Graphics chip mount

PCI Express

Power connector

IO
The IO on the card is rather interesting. The card has the standard Dual Link DVI ports found on most video cards today. Also on the board is a DisplayPort port, allowing the user the widest choice of monitor options on the market today, as you can also use HDMI monitors with an adapter. Two of the monitor connections can be used at the same time, due to the limitations of the video chip, and not the amount of monitor connections on the video card.