ATI Radeon HD 4870 Overclocking Guide

[Chai]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Nah, unless newbies specifically unlock the feature (minimum three mouse clicks required), it's unlikely to be a problem for them.

Requiring just 3 mouse clicks is far too easy. Something like Nvidia's Coolbits hack is good.

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by Chai

Requiring just 3 mouse clicks is far too easy. Something like Nvidia's Coolbits hack is good.

True, it's easier than Coolbits. But I noticed that they are getting smarter in preventing overclocking from killing the card.

For both NVIDIA and ATI cards, the driver can recover from bad overclocks. The GTX 260 is really good at this. It actually downclocks after it detects a bad overclock. It remains underclocked until you reboot.

[Unixlord]

Requiring a reboot actually sounds like an annoyance.

[The_YongGrand]

How about Radeon 4850? They are awesome too. No review?

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by The_YongGrand

How about Radeon 4850? They are awesome too. No review?

Not yet.

[The_YongGrand]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Not yet.

Ah, this is the best budget card too!

You gotta have at least one review about it!

'Cause, I'm enjoying it so hard! And it's not too expensive, neither not too cheap, but did some new gaming job pretty well!

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by The_YongGrand

Ah, this is the best budget card too!

You gotta have at least one review about it!

'Cause, I'm enjoying it so hard! And it's not too expensive, neither not too cheap, but did some new gaming job pretty well!

Will try my best to get a card for review soon!

[Adrian Wong]

We have just posted a major update of the ATI Radeon HD 4870 Overclocking Guide!

As we saw in our review of the ASUS EAH4870 Radeon HD 4870 graphics card, the Radeon HD 4870 was very much superior to high-end graphics cards like the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+. It was also about 2-2.5X faster than its predecessor, the Radeon HD 3870. Now, that is what you call a quantum leap ahead in performance!

Of course, this does not mean we are not going to try overclocking the card. Even though the Radeon HD 4870 will handily tackle practically every 3D game out there, there is still a dragon left to slay and that dragon is called Crysis. The Radeon HD 4870 delivered an average frame rate of 38 fps at 1600 x 1200 and 32 fps at 1920 x 1200. Very good but it would be nice to have better frame rates, wouldn't it? So, let's see how well the Radeon HD 4870 overclocks!

Now at Revision 2.0, here's a list of what we updated in the guide :

- Added a new page on the AMD GPU Clock Tool utility.
- Added the benchmark results of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 graphics card.
- Updated the results with Radeon HD 4870 overclocked to 820 MHz core and 1200 MHz memory.

Link : ATI Radeon HD 4870 Overclocking Guide

[Dashken]

We have just posted a major update of the ATI Radeon HD 4870 Overclocking Guide!

As we saw in our review of the ASUS EAH4870 Radeon HD 4870 graphics card, the Radeon HD 4870 was very much superior to high-end graphics cards like the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+. It was also about 2-2.5X faster than its predecessor, the Radeon HD 3870. Now, that is what you call a quantum leap ahead in performance!

Of course, this does not mean we are not going to try overclocking the card. Even though the Radeon HD 4870 will handily tackle practically every 3D game out there, there is still a dragon left to slay and that dragon is called Crysis. The Radeon HD 4870 delivered an average frame rate of 38 fps at 1600 x 1200 and 32 fps at 1920 x 1200. Very good but it would be nice to have better frame rates, wouldn't it? So, let's see how well the Radeon HD 4870 overclocks!

Now at Revision 3.0, here's a list of what we updated in the guide :

- Added a new page on the RivaTuner utility.
- Added a new Overclocking Advantage page.
- Updated the results with Radeon HD 4870 overclocked to 855 MHz core and 1200 MHz memory.

Link : ATI Radeon HD 4870 Overclocking Guide Rev. 3.0