Palit HD 4870 512MB Video Card Review :: Palit HD 4870 Card

10-23-2008 · Category: Hardware -

By Ben Sun

Palit HD 4870 512MB Video Card Review Card

Card

Palit HD 4870 512MB Video Card Review Front fan area

Front fan area

Palit HD 4870 512MB Video Card Review Dual Fans

Dual Fans

Palit HD 4870 512MB Video Card Review Heatpipes

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.


Palit HD 4870 512MB Video Card Review Rear of PCB

Rear of PCB

Palit HD 4870 512MB Video Card Review Single fan

Single fan

Palit HD 4870 512MB Video Card Review Crossfire bridges

Crossfire bridges

Palit HD 4870 512MB Video Card Review Capacitors

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.


Palit HD 4870 512MB Video Card Review Graphics chip mount

Graphics chip mount

Palit HD 4870 512MB Video Card Review PCI Express

PCI Express

Palit HD 4870 512MB Video Card Review Power connector

Power connector

Palit HD 4870 512MB Video Card Review IO

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.