The below is advertised as having a 'Silent Cooling solution' anyone know how 'silent' this is?

Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4870 PCS Extreme

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-093-PC

I was thinking of getting a 4870 and attaching a third party cooler, but if this is as good a might just get this instead

Cheers

Reckon i might get this actually, was gonna get one and nice of them to put it on this week only for me probably buy this one over the other powercolor due to the tiny extra stock speeds.lol

Im thinking the cooler will be quieter than the normal cooler but not 'silent'.
Will try out the cooler but most likly end up putting my accelero s1 on and attaching a silent fan or two.

I was considering a GTX 280 but saw this on offer today and decided it was too good to pass - free copy of Grid as well! Can't find any reviews of this card though - hope the cooler doesn't turn out to be a lemon!

I've just recieved a HD4870 and S1 today, nice and quiet with good temps too.

Plus it has the added bonus of been pre-overclocked to 800MHz so the bios limits of overclocking will have been removed so you can use Overdrive to clock it even further

Hi there

They seem great cards, incredible value.

Now to me they are very quiet but I also find a 4870 with the stock cooler quiet apart from the times when it spins upto 100%.

These are actually as cheap as some of the other stock brands, but they have a quieter cooler and come overclocked out of the box which allows for more overclocking headroom via overdrive facility in the drivers.

Hi Gibbo have you encountered any heating issues with the cards during testing? Some forums are reporting a BIOS problem that prevent the fan from spinning up to full speed. Hope there's no probs as I've just bought one!

You can always flash it and put a custom bios on it, all the regular 4870 cards other than asus are the same anyway, goosed bios

Thanks hadn't thought of that!

Is the card any good?

Don't know, have yet to receive it, but will post back when it arrives.

ok thanks as im thinking that this may be a card for me. cant find any reviews anywhere.

I heard this model has a better power regulation circuit on it

These cards may have a bad bios or so they say here http://en.expreview.com/2008/08/13/powercolors-hd-4870-has-a-better-design-worse-bios/#more-643

hmmm thats worth knowing.

i heard that too, but i herd also that the card runs hot and its not properly cooled :S i was going to buy but i mite avoid now

We talking about the said powercolour?

yea powercolor PCS extreme, and if you google it you will find a lot of info!

Got info on the card....but i would like to see "reviews"

All of the info regarding a "bios problem" originates from one source who aquired a pre-release version of the card. They said that their particular board was overheating due to a slow running fan that could not be turned up sufficiently via bios. The Powercolor PCS box says temps will be 10deg lower than stamdard 4870's (even though it is overclocked). I cannot see any manufacturer adding a 3rd party cooler which is worse than stock, and then overclocking the card. I think the bios issue is probably a one off, or pre-relase problem that has been fixed.

I am very tempted to order one now that OcUK will give me free delivery and Grid. If the card does infact have ANY problems with overheating (which I very doubt) it can be returned anyway so no risk.

I guess it wouldn't be "silent" if the fan always ran at 100% anyhow.