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Best clocking 4870

1kiwi

1kiwi

1kiwi

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Hi guys,

So based on your advice in the other thread i'm going to get a 4870, watercool it and clock it as far as it will go.

Can anyone suggest a decent brand?
 
Pot luck.

I have a sapphire watercooled and it's only reasonable. memory will not do one Mhz more than 1100 and core stable at 875 for benchmarks but only 839 for 24/7 gaming.

However, somebody else on here has a Sapphire which runs at 890/1200 under water even in games. Equally I have seen people getting no more than 790/1050.

Don't bother with the Diamond special editions. They are not cherry picked and early buyers in the states are reporting they are not even stable with ATI tool at the stock settings of 800/950 and are returning them.

Therefore, buy the cheapest and take pot luck until somebody starts bring out cherry picked cards at a premium.

You could do the distance selling act thing, buy one, test it, if not a good clocker, send it back.

Unfortunately that is a bit naughty and secondly will cost you postage each time you do it.
 
reference design = pot luck on how it clocks
get the cheapest - you wont be using it in a years time and they all have 1 year warrenty anyway

*copies and pastes into every thread in gfx section*
 
Anybody know if this Powercolor card is 'cherry picked' or another stock card? The silent cooling solution looks the business.
 
Anybody know if this Powercolor card is 'cherry picked' or another stock card? The silent cooling solution looks the business.
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NO 4870 on the market, including that one, is cherry picked. The clocks referenced for that should be achievable on ANY 4870.*

*As with any overclocking, it's not garunteed though - so if you want to be absolutely sure you deffinately will have a card that does those clocks - buy that one!
 
I would recommend a silent solution, but it probably wouldn't get you any better overclocking. Anyone knows how to clock the 4870 higher than the CCC allows?
 
Greebo said:
Pot luck.



Don't bother with the Diamond special editions. They are not cherry picked and early buyers in the states are reporting they are not even stable with ATI tool at the stock settings of 800/950 and are returning them.

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There seems to be a great deal of this around lately, from various vendors, and it really makes me angry, such a waste of everyone's time. It appears they simply aren't bothering to implement thorough enough testing procedures. One card, open bench, a couple of 3dmark loops, that'll do....don't worry, most people won't be running these in crossfire/SLI, and those who do will likely invest in third party cooling, or if not, then be content to leave the sides off their cases with desk fans blasting into them before they even think about returning the cards to us, by which time they'll have probably upgraded again anyway....and for those few who are persistent, we'll just "retest" them, claim they're fine and send them back until they give up :rolleyes::mad:.
 
thats because 'we' only make up about 5% of the market. All the noobs buying high end HP's, Dell XPS builds etc don't know any better.
 
Plus, I'd imagine their testing suddenly and conveniently becomes more rigorous when heavyweight OEMs are making bulk purchases, likewise when sending out review samples....:rolleyes:
 
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