For the 4870X2 being in the top dog and the top drawer in graphics performance, with the same principle as the HD3000 series with two cores to compensate the single core constraints. With the memory of the excess of 2GB’s gives you enough memory to load up textures and good for those high resolutions with the use of the anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering and the speed and bandwidth of both GDRR5 and PCIex2.0 in one single long card.
So Palit, in my mind, would not miss this type of opportunity, by bumping the core and memory clock, by about more than 50MHz, but if that is not enough, they even replace the reference cooling to a dual fan combo cooling for you desire; over-clocking ease without the problem of overheating with evidence of other HD4870X2 card. For Palit, rather than calling the usual 4870X2, but still recognisable by its long and read PCB chip, is the revolution 700, derived by its code name R770 chipset. This triple slot graphics card has an input connection all over the place, with one Analogue video in the top and one DVI port, one HDMI and one display port, with one problem with it, the variety of video input is fine but the analogue video is almost obsolete the HDMI is a good inclusion, if you have an expensive HDMI monitor lying around the house.
Speaking of monitors, we also monitored the noise levels of the graphics and the all important cooling capabilities. Having about 45dBa in idle and around about the high 55dBa in an open case in load. With the help of the dual fan placing the idle temp at 50 degrees and load temp in 65 degrees. Overall good performance when comparing it in with the reference design 65-80 degrees idle-load. With video performance is up top being an over-clocked 4870X2. With the high-res gaming really recommended to compete it with the GTX200, having about 10 to 30 fsp over the average of the GTX280 with game in Crysis and also Unreal tournament 3, but for the Physics engine dedicated games like ghost recon and more in the future games will go in favour in the engine of NVIDIA’s GTX rather than raw performance of X2.
In some of the graphics card like the 4870X2, the speed and the performance of the card is astonishing, eating all of the frames and calculations per second, for the Palit is to catch one of these and tame the beast out, for example to keep it cool, while going ballistic in every game possible. But for the space conscious, the sound of the triple slot graphics is more of a death sentence rather than killing games, and the prize of the card and the rest; is going to increase when we heard the world markets are not well. For much you need to pay for it, for about $800 is a better choice than having dual 4870’s, but the cost over performance is not looking well.
