High End GFX with native hdmi?

[Baplad]

I've been looking around for a high end ATI Gfx Card that has native hdmi.

Looking for something to last me a long time which will perform well at 1920x1200

Mainly going to be used for COD4 and then Modern Warfare 2 when its out.

I've found the Palit Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB DDR5 Revolution 700 Deluxe after sometime of googling.

Im just really looking for some more options as i dont like the tri-slot system of the Plait.

Any advice would be great,

Thanks.

 

[Bradmax57]

I've been looking around for a high end ATI Gfx Card that has native hdmi.

Looking for something to last me a long time which will perform well at 1920x1200

Mainly going to be used for COD4 and then Modern Warfare 2 when its out.

I've found the Palit Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB DDR5 Revolution 700 Deluxe after sometime of googling.

Im just really looking for some more options as i dont like the tri-slot system of the Plait.

Any advice would be great,

Thanks.

I had a palit 4870 1gb that had dvi, vga, hdmi and dp connections and was a dual slot design

 

[Baplad]

I had a palit 4870 1gb that had dvi, vga, hdmi and dp connections and was a dual slot design

How did perform, heat and noise wise?

 

[[timko]]

Baplad, two of these if you've got a crossfire capable mobo...

I/O Output: Display Port+HDMI+DL-DVI+VGA
Core Clock: 870 MHz
Memory Clock: 1050 MHz (4.2Ghz!)
PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
1024MB /256bit GDDR5 memory interface
Dual Slot Vapor-X Cooler
HDMI compliant via dongle
7.1 Audio Channel Support
Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
Shader Model 4.1 support

It's got Displayport and HDMI ports as well although it's still a case of only 2 out of any of the 4 outputs can be used at a given time. You can have something plugged into all 4 ports but you will only get an image out of 2 that you choose via CCC.


Here's some reviews...

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/sapphire_hd4890_toxic_vaporx/

http://www.bigbruin.com/content/sapphirehd4890_1

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/sapphirehd4890vaporx/

 

[robmagee]

+1 that sapphoire is one nice card. I use HDMI with a dongle and it works just as well. I want to give my mointers display port a test

 

[Baplad]

Was looking at the 4850x2 but ive seen a whole number of people talking about how loud the cooler is on it.

I've seen some customized cooling with people adding 2 zalman VF900's to it, but the card at load goes to some scary temps.

 

[Bradmax57]

How did perform, heat and noise wise?

pretty good tbh, it had a dual fan heatsink on that was fairly quiet too