@@BudgetBuildsOfficial hey, man i have the same issue with gtaV eversince i play the game i have tried everything, literraly and nothing seems to fix it.Please let me know if you figure it out im playing on a 1080ti and the gpu usage never goes over 65% and im stuck playing at 60 to 70 fps at max settings
The arrow goes just under your pfp so i cant click BUT i did decide to click the search bar all the way up ^ | and find you're channel that way. Subbed and turned on bell notifications!
I had one of these for a few years. It really was a beast back in the day. I remember playing games at 60fps in 1080p, it was like playing in 4k today.
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More than once I have cleaned off a GPU with distilled water and had no issues. In fact if you were to get a very very clean PCB and some extremely pure water you could even get it wet while it operates and not have any issues. Water is not conductive when it is ultra purified, so as long as there's nothing on the card to get dissolved into the water it would act the same as a mineral oil submersion. Obviously that's not really possible in practice though. Still as long as the electronics remain completely unpowered there's no danger at all in getting them wet.
@@KingHalbatorix even tho what you say is true, King nor is anyone recommending anyone should throw water on their PC while it is plugged in and turned on.
@@ezcoreg759 People do that with toasters. I'd personally do it with a computer if I could. Just because. But sadly, I don't have the fire department at the whim and ready. So there goes those dreams. Edit: Then agian, Linus had one of his lackyes, erm I mean employee's do that while it was turned on.
Thank you for the shoutout, it's been a pleasure making the stream art. Great video as always, keep up the good work and relaxing streams. Though I hope I don't have to keep adding graves.
I feel like 1GB of memory with 2GB onboard and an outdated driver was causing newer games to over allocate memory. Causing crashing. similiar to the 970 3.5bg issue.
The main problem with the 4870 X2 is the cooling solution. Two solid copper blocks with no vapor chambers or heatpipes. I mean, sure, the first copper block right behind the fan got cooled properly, the second block got heated by hot air, usually resulting with one of the gpu dies getting baked. I have two of these, a Sapphire model with the stock heatsink, and a second card with the aftermarket Arctic Cooling triple fan heatsink specific for that card. Funny enough, Arctic Cooling support actually tipped me off about the auction listing on ebay for the card when I asked them if they happened to have any of the heatsinks for this card in backstock somewhere. Once cooled properly, its a pretty beastly card that stayed relatively chill under full load and very overclockable, though I didn't try yet since I didn't want to ruin it. ^^; I might try overclock it at somepoint or if I somehow manage to find either a second arctic cooling heatsink or juryrig some kind of liquid cooling situation for the four gpu dies and a bunch of small copper heatsinks for the vrm and memory chips.
I didnt attempt overclocking but with a custom fan curve we didnt see it ever go above 79C. VRMs, and VRAM seemed to be cooled alright by the blower, but they are some toasty GPUs
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial Sounds about right with what I saw on the stock sapphire one. Loud but cool enough given that its a dual gpu. The one with the arctic cooling heatsink on it was quiet given that its a triple fan cooler with a heatsink to rival that of some of the modern RTX heatsinks! xD I might break mine out and play with it again. I did just get my GTX 295 working so it'll be cool to see how they perform compared to each other. :) Also, I was the one who just posted pictures in the normal discord chat with the two 4870x2s~ ;)
Budget-Builds Official ouch, My Titan can’t even stay that cool at 100% fan speeds stock... I’m impressed they got 2 GPUs to run that cool with a blower, that is some proper engineering! I remember my old ATI Fire-GL V8650 ran like 70c idle, and when overclocked 25% gaming with fan like a jet, I remember thinking “it’ll be fine, just don’t look at the temps...” and played great for like 2 hours on a super hard multi-player mission in Warface and one of the teammates said “ok, we’ve got this in the bag, nobody die..” and then my system shut off... Oh... great times... did hit 60 fps at 1024x1280 in that game though, but it was a beast to cool! (card is fine)
planetfifa I have 4x Fury in my main system (100 fps in Crysis 3 at 4k Ultra, compared to 45 fps on my Titan Xp), that’s pretty much how most of my games go besides Fortnite (one of the few single GPU games I own, or at least of one the few that would otherwise benefit as most of mine either support it, or already run 300 fps at Ultra 4k with 16x AA and don’t really need crossfire).
I actually have one of these cards running in a Mirror's Edge-themed Vista era build (also featuring a Phenom x4 9950 BE and 4x2gb OCZ Reaper DDR2). It's probably my favourite card design ever, but its insanely complex cooler design makes it pretty hard to work on and repaste.
I owned the powercolor one. Brilliant card. Switched to it form a single slot sapphire 3870 512mb vaporx card which i bought only as a stand in. I remember initially buying a enermax 650w platinum modular PSU (that still runs brilliantly to this day) thinking that it will be enough for this x2 card. It wasn't. I ended up buying a 1200w akasa PSU (it still powers my i7 8700k GeForce 1080 rig) to keep up with this card. I had it paired with an core 2duo 8500 on an Intel x48 board, 4gb of corsair dominator ddr3 ram and Windows vista... Great days!
having had an HD4850 1gb edition and later second in crossfire, the crossfire ran very smooth. i was saddened to hear form my friend that crossfire was never that smooth again. now i stick to single gpu and run stuff like SSDs or 10G networking in the other free slots
@@costelli1 Problem was, I put on an aftermarket cooler, and I strongly suspect one of the capacitors didn't have proper contact with the heat sink. After about a year, poof...dead.
I use to have a HD4870 1 or 2 GB GPU back in the day, absolutely loved using it. Had nothing but fun times with it while I absloutely pined for one of these as well I just couldn't afford one.
Awesome video 👏👏 I’m glad you had a better time with this card than I did. Of course it could of been the games I was trying to get working, but glad to see it get more attention, as it’s certainly a beast.
Had an HD4850, purchased used in 2010 for the amazingly low sum of only $50 US. crazy how fast those cards depreciated. anyway, I loved gaming on it for that price and finally transitioned to a 1660 super 3 years ago. great card.
Yeah, i still have one on a shelf in workroom, 4870x2...beside of my previous 3870x2...good old days when CX and SLi was supported across games. :( But i think, despite the fact that AMD buyed ATi in 2006, these cards still have brand name ATi... :) (what i remember AMD cards start shows around 2010?) Thanks you RUclips for recomendation... :D to amazement this video isn't old as others recomendations.. :D
In 2009 my work bought me 5x ATI Radeon HD 5970s for my flight simulator - they were hot and power consuming monsters and, despite having 2GB, it was only 1GB per GPU so, very quickly, my flight simulator outgrew them - which was a shame - because they were over £500 each and were briefly "The World's Fastest Consumer Graphics Card". Many of the issues you're discussing here about the HD4870X2 would imply ATI did nothing in the year between the 4870X2 and my 5970s (and yes, drivers really did suck)
I had the 3870 x2, the 4870 x2 and finally the 6990 x2 cards... before I upgraded to a GTX980 non TI. All of these cards where watercooled via custom loop. I even had DUAL 6990 x2's and DUAL 4870 X2's for quad Crossfire.
Honestly. This but instead of two gpus, you have a gpu and then a cpu just for graphical/logical stuff like filters and frame creation and pushing and what not that cant be easily processed by a gpu. That would be sick.
I miss the days you could buy a dual gpu card for a fraction of the price of a single card now. I had several of these over the years, the 7950gx2, this card, and one other I can't remember.
Guys the best card I recommend is: GTX1050Ti It’s very cheap you can play new titles on high setting and it would be smooth You don’t need external power too it’s under 95£ so yeah I recommend it
I used to have a 4870x2 back in the day. It was a beast but it was overkill, and not in a good way. It drew 480w under full load and mine would hit 100C until i put a custom cooler on it. It also sounded like a jet engine inside your case.
To cut down on wastage per upgrade we need a modular gpu. Chose our own gpu chip and maximum memory chips too. That way the pcb would be future proof as you'll just need the modules and click into place then play.
4000 GPUs when I swapped to AMD for awhile up til this year.. think it was the 4870 I had then went to 6870, then 280x then 580 and now back on team green with a 1660 ti before I swapped to AMD had a 8800 GT
7:50 what? I played GTA V perfectly fine on my ryzen 5 3500u... Granted I couldnt crank the settings up due to 2GB of vram but still it was a solid experience for mobile integrated graphics very playable. I could get 1080p low/medium settings and around at around 35fps. Now I have a 1660 super though and the experience is definitely better. Cranking settings up to max 1080p looks a lot nicer and I still get around 100fps... (75ish fps on online mode)
Awesome review of one of my favourite graphics cards!! It'd be great if you could review a GTX 295, which is Nvidia's response to this HD4870X2, and compare their perfomance :D
So back in the day I was at Future Shop and I had a staff member there tell me what I could not afford what I was there for now I to me that is bad business so I asked him for his supervisor or manager on shift. Once the manager came over I explained that I don’t like being told I can’t afford what I was there for and that I think I will shop else where products. As he agreed that the employee was in the wrong and I dint yell to try and keep me as a customer he gave me 50% off I was there for this very graphics card so I ended I getting it on the cheap
I was using one of these cards until a few years ago. It was a nice card for the time but I never got the same performance with Windows 10 as I did with Windows 7.
I have fond memories playing on my x2. I even picked up a 4870 for trifire but it wasn't really worth the effort. Nothing really scaled 3 GPUs that well. Awesome card!
“They we’re usually testing it at the even higher resolution of 600p” But you were running Skyrim at 1080p, that’s even higher? Was this just a mistake or did I mishear?
remember when 3dfx gave us SLI with the Voodoo 2 and then we got the Vodoo 5 5500 with two graphics chips on the same board. then ATI and Nvidia copied them and people started to say they invented dual card use
This was my dream card when i was young. Of course I could not buy this card as a teenager but the dream remained. Now that I have the possibility, I bought 2 x hd4870x2 and packed it together with a 1000 Watt power supply into a system. It is useless and it gets extremely hot. But I have my dream computer from my youth. Now it stands beside my Main Pc.
There was another dual gpu card, the Radeon R9 295x2. It was two R9 290X chips on a single card that came with a built-in AIO cooler, which had a fan on the rad and a fan in the middle of the card. When it was released in 2014 it was the most powerful card on the market.
I had a similar setup running back in the day (2x 4870 cards) and it was TRASH in Farcry when aiming down the hill into a crowded base, the microstutter made it impossible to aim AT ALL although the min and max FPS increased. I had to disable one card to make it playable again.
So this is the next to the last ATi owned graphics card, last gen was the HD 5XXX series of ATi. AMD bought ATi than put out the HD 6XXX series. I had an HD 4850 1GB version at that time, better color pallet with Radeon than GeForce, at the time.
i used to own a Sapphire 4870 and it was a really solid graphics at that time i had a much fun with it. i also had a 4850 which i still own. and a also used to own a 4890 all powered by Sapphire apart from the 4850 which was a asus model. i enjoy watching the video!
Bought one on the cheap years ago and ended up oven baking it back to life, pity that AMD doesn't give a rat's ass about continuing driver support despite there being some viable performance.
I had the 3870x2 and it sucked. Almost every game ran on 1 GPU. Only games like Borderlands 1, Dirt 2 and maybe Far Cry 3 were able to make use of multi-GPU. I did like how the ATI 3870X2 looked, though I wish I had the 4870x2 though haha. Back then, I didn't know so much about hardware. Edit: I just checked out your 3870 x2 video and I'm amazed you managed 60fps at 1080p, as I played at 1680x1050 and never saw such FPS numbers (+ had a lot of artifacts)
I have an HD5970 :) It's a really nice graphics card, basically the X2 of the 5000 series. I found it at a junkshop for $35NZD and took a risk on it. Really good for Battlefield 4, The issue with it is its so huge you can't even fit it in most cases. The only case it fits in that I own is a Corsair 800D (the mini fridge).
I’ve got a “mini fridge” on mine. People might think your referring to phase cooling (-60c isle temps and -35c peak under load on FX-8350 at 1.7 Vcore with core temp peaking below 0c under load). It’s a nice little cooling unit... much bigger compressor, but it’s fairly small
@@jakegarrett8109 Fair point lol. I just found that once I had that case people joked it was a mini fridge because of how huge it is :) I have an FX8350 in it but at stock speeds cooled by a Hyper 212X. Frankly I'd never even put water cooling near it let alone sub ambiant stuff. I reserve that for less important systems like my overclocked P4.
I had this, though I don't remember right now which make. Yes it was fast, but I didn't keep it for as long as I could. It was not only getting very hot, but it was SO DAMN NOISY! It's like you had a huge vacuum cleaner in the room. I am not kidding. Eventually I replaced it with a HD6850 which IIRC was not faster, but it was definitely quieter and IIRC with less power consumption too. Though I admit I didn't pay much attention to power consumption back then. Now days even if I had the money I would never buy an almost 300W GPU. Thanks for the video.
I loved the 4series Gpus. I had dual 4850s which were awesome until some driver borked crossfire and made most games unplayable in crossfire for 2 months:)
Hey I love this guys content
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial Looked like a fake channel ad before I saw your comment on it
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial lol
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial hey, man i have the same issue with gtaV eversince i play the game i have tried everything, literraly and nothing seems to fix it.Please let me know if you figure it out im playing on a 1080ti and the gpu usage never goes over 65% and im stuck playing at 60 to 70 fps at max settings
The arrow goes just under your pfp so i cant click BUT i did decide to click the search bar all the way up
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and find you're channel that way. Subbed and turned on bell notifications!
I love the fact that it was a bug that permitted good performance in GTA 5...
I had one of these for a few years. It really was a beast back in the day. I remember playing games at 60fps in 1080p, it was like playing in 4k today.
when gpu's were still affordable
thanks, BITCOIN
thanks, GREEDY MANUFACTURERS
thanks, COVID-19
THANKS OBAMA
They are affordable also today.. if you want GT 710 with 1GB GDDR3 memory.. :D
No sick flames no performance
Take off the cooler and you'll get flames alright
On that era? They used generic waifus lol
Narathin the first batch of 2080 Ti’s had sick flames
No RGB, no performance as well.
The holy HEXAGON:
RandomgaminginHD
BudgetBuildsOfficial
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F2FTech
Philscomputerlab
Making the life of PotatoC gamers easier ❤️
Also, once found one of these for close to nothing here in Brazil
You forgot Green Ham Gaming
@@akepup6791 my bad, going to edit, also, it's been some time since I saw his last video, always had a blast watching
I just wish he uploaded a bit more
Yes brother
Don't forget about PhilsComputerLab :)
I remember the day I bought a HD 4870 and tried it on crysis, it was so beautiful.
Even with the mediocre xfire support, this card was practically made for that game. Pretty much the best way to hit 60fps at high settings.
0:50 I had severe anxiety watching the back of the card hanging above that puddle of water.....
wouldn't really do anything until he turned it on without drying out the traces, just saying, I don't mean to ruin your fun
Yeah, computer parts aren't easily breakable by water.
More than once I have cleaned off a GPU with distilled water and had no issues. In fact if you were to get a very very clean PCB and some extremely pure water you could even get it wet while it operates and not have any issues. Water is not conductive when it is ultra purified, so as long as there's nothing on the card to get dissolved into the water it would act the same as a mineral oil submersion. Obviously that's not really possible in practice though. Still as long as the electronics remain completely unpowered there's no danger at all in getting them wet.
@@KingHalbatorix even tho what you say is true, King nor is anyone recommending anyone should throw water on their PC while it is plugged in and turned on.
@@ezcoreg759 People do that with toasters. I'd personally do it with a computer if I could. Just because. But sadly, I don't have the fire department at the whim and ready. So there goes those dreams.
Edit: Then agian, Linus had one of his lackyes, erm I mean employee's do that while it was turned on.
Thank you for the shoutout, it's been a pleasure making the stream art.
Great video as always, keep up the good work and relaxing streams. Though I hope I don't have to keep adding graves.
I had two single 4870's in crossfire at the time. They were awesome.
I still have them in a box somewhere.
I feel like 1GB of memory with 2GB onboard and an outdated driver was causing newer games to over allocate memory. Causing crashing.
similiar to the 970 3.5bg issue.
I still used 4870 like year ago and the drivers were a big problem
(my notebook died and had to use something:D)
The main problem with the 4870 X2 is the cooling solution. Two solid copper blocks with no vapor chambers or heatpipes. I mean, sure, the first copper block right behind the fan got cooled properly, the second block got heated by hot air, usually resulting with one of the gpu dies getting baked. I have two of these, a Sapphire model with the stock heatsink, and a second card with the aftermarket Arctic Cooling triple fan heatsink specific for that card. Funny enough, Arctic Cooling support actually tipped me off about the auction listing on ebay for the card when I asked them if they happened to have any of the heatsinks for this card in backstock somewhere. Once cooled properly, its a pretty beastly card that stayed relatively chill under full load and very overclockable, though I didn't try yet since I didn't want to ruin it. ^^;
I might try overclock it at somepoint or if I somehow manage to find either a second arctic cooling heatsink or juryrig some kind of liquid cooling situation for the four gpu dies and a bunch of small copper heatsinks for the vrm and memory chips.
I didnt attempt overclocking but with a custom fan curve we didnt see it ever go above 79C. VRMs, and VRAM seemed to be cooled alright by the blower, but they are some toasty GPUs
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial Sounds about right with what I saw on the stock sapphire one. Loud but cool enough given that its a dual gpu. The one with the arctic cooling heatsink on it was quiet given that its a triple fan cooler with a heatsink to rival that of some of the modern RTX heatsinks! xD I might break mine out and play with it again. I did just get my GTX 295 working so it'll be cool to see how they perform compared to each other. :)
Also, I was the one who just posted pictures in the normal discord chat with the two 4870x2s~ ;)
Budget-Builds Official ouch, My Titan can’t even stay that cool at 100% fan speeds stock... I’m impressed they got 2 GPUs to run that cool with a blower, that is some proper engineering! I remember my old ATI Fire-GL V8650 ran like 70c idle, and when overclocked 25% gaming with fan like a jet, I remember thinking “it’ll be fine, just don’t look at the temps...” and played great for like 2 hours on a super hard multi-player mission in Warface and one of the teammates said “ok, we’ve got this in the bag, nobody die..” and then my system shut off... Oh... great times... did hit 60 fps at 1024x1280 in that game though, but it was a beast to cool! (card is fine)
That little animation at 0:22 made me think it fell in the lake. Scared the crap out of me!
I was digging through some boxes and I have 2 of these still.
Now I'm wondering how a 4 GPU Crossfire would work, if it'd work at all
planetfifa I have 4x Fury in my main system (100 fps in Crysis 3 at 4k Ultra, compared to 45 fps on my Titan Xp), that’s pretty much how most of my games go besides Fortnite (one of the few single GPU games I own, or at least of one the few that would otherwise benefit as most of mine either support it, or already run 300 fps at Ultra 4k with 16x AA and don’t really need crossfire).
crossfire them
Quadfire
For some reason I thought this was an F2F video and was really confused when you started talking lmfao. Great Video as always
Il ltake thats a compliment
I actually have one of these cards running in a Mirror's Edge-themed Vista era build (also featuring a Phenom x4 9950 BE and 4x2gb OCZ Reaper DDR2). It's probably my favourite card design ever, but its insanely complex cooler design makes it pretty hard to work on and repaste.
I remember my first Mac pro upgrade a ATI 4870. It was nuts for what it was. I couldn't image two of them back in 2008/9 ish. Awesome review.
7:12 anyone else hear barking? or am i losing it?
*Don't listen to the voices*
@@Pumciusz
Don't listen to this guy. Voices are your friend,but watch out for the imaginary people you see.
You angered the god doge, may he have mercy on your soul Adam.
#include GaSLigHT.h
// Nothing to see here
//It's all in your mind...
i am totally not living in your walls.
ugh I hate feeling old.. "2008? That's not that old... Oh wait" really makes you feel ancient lol
Coal Powered Steam Engines, and Henry Ford Releasing the new Automobile. Now that was an era.
I remember when the Egyptians made the pharoh. You kids these days have no respect for your elders
I had this card back in the day...Loved it...Played anything in Ultra!
Terascale has done me dirty in the past, but this card seems to be pretty alright. Nice one Hamish, keep it up
Hamish?
Best winter i ever had, when i bought this 4870x2. No more cold in the house.
I owned the powercolor one. Brilliant card. Switched to it form a single slot sapphire 3870 512mb vaporx card which i bought only as a stand in. I remember initially buying a enermax 650w platinum modular PSU (that still runs brilliantly to this day) thinking that it will be enough for this x2 card. It wasn't. I ended up buying a 1200w akasa PSU (it still powers my i7 8700k GeForce 1080 rig) to keep up with this card. I had it paired with an core 2duo 8500 on an Intel x48 board, 4gb of corsair dominator ddr3 ram and Windows vista... Great days!
Haha. I just bought a boxed one and one unboxed. Gave the unboxed one fresh paste and thermal paste and dumped it in a 775 (modded 771) build.
Xeon mod?
@@thefurrygamer1489 Yes. I bought a modded Xeon E5450 on AliExpress and dropped it in a MSI board. No BIOS microcode needed
@@GuybrushThriftweed How'd you pull that off? All mods I've seen of that required a modded bios.
Cool to see these old cards run these titles. I had fun with my 4870x2 years ago. Good stuff
Was the card barking at you at around 7:14?
The R9 295X2 was AMD’s last dual GPU card and it mined really well and also can outperform even a 1070 or 1080.
For 2.5 Times the TDP tho. Like 500 watts is nothing for a 295
the shots of the pc hardware outside and sitting on the dirty ground/yard objects on the videos on this channel really drives me crazy
I don't think this is the channel for you then. But hope u enjoy the videos.
having had an HD4850 1gb edition and later second in crossfire, the crossfire ran very smooth. i was saddened to hear form my friend that crossfire was never that smooth again. now i stick to single gpu and run stuff like SSDs or 10G networking in the other free slots
This was the best GPU for a very long time
Still better than my GTX 750
@@snake4322 Nope
Ah, I remember my HD 4870X2. It died right in the middle of Crysis. RIP
wtf i have a radeon hd 6470M and i have no problems whit it (1280x1024 res, medium-high settings, over 50 fps)
Rest in piece , where can i put the flowers? Wheres the grave
@@costelli1 Problem was, I put on an aftermarket cooler, and I strongly suspect one of the capacitors didn't have proper contact with the heat sink. After about a year, poof...dead.
I use to have a HD4870 1 or 2 GB GPU back in the day, absolutely loved using it. Had nothing but fun times with it while I absloutely pined for one of these as well I just couldn't afford one.
FineWine.™, Bellascale architecture
Awesome video 👏👏 I’m glad you had a better time with this card than I did. Of course it could of been the games I was trying to get working, but glad to see it get more attention, as it’s certainly a beast.
Gotta hand it to AMD really, taking on Nvidia AND Intel for years!
Had an HD4850, purchased used in 2010 for the amazingly low sum of only $50 US. crazy how fast those cards depreciated. anyway, I loved gaming on it for that price and finally transitioned to a 1660 super 3 years ago. great card.
R9 295x2 - was a beast for its time. Finally replaced it with a GTX 1080 a few years ago and then a Ti the following.
Yeah, i still have one on a shelf in workroom, 4870x2...beside of my previous 3870x2...good old days when CX and SLi was supported across games. :(
But i think, despite the fact that AMD buyed ATi in 2006, these cards still have brand name ATi... :) (what i remember AMD cards start shows around 2010?)
Thanks you RUclips for recomendation... :D to amazement this video isn't old as others recomendations.. :D
In 2009 my work bought me 5x ATI Radeon HD 5970s for my flight simulator - they were hot and power consuming monsters and, despite having 2GB, it was only 1GB per GPU so, very quickly, my flight simulator outgrew them - which was a shame - because they were over £500 each and were briefly "The World's Fastest Consumer Graphics Card".
Many of the issues you're discussing here about the HD4870X2 would imply ATI did nothing in the year between the 4870X2 and my 5970s (and yes, drivers really did suck)
This is a great GPU for me as the voices in my head drown out the GPU fan noise
Back when actual good gpus that weren’t shit were affordable nowadays only the shit low end cards don’t cost a mortgage
I LOVE the Airline Tycoon music omg
I had the 3870 x2, the 4870 x2 and finally the 6990 x2 cards... before I upgraded to a GTX980 non TI. All of these cards where watercooled via custom loop. I even had DUAL 6990 x2's and DUAL 4870 X2's for quad Crossfire.
I was waiting for this video!
And its real good!
played alot with this card, paired with an i7 920.
good old days....
got one of these. was a gift for building a mame cab
that shit looks like a quake 3 weapon.
I still have my HD4870 512mb, a transistor fell off but that tank still works lol
Honestly. This but instead of two gpus, you have a gpu and then a cpu just for graphical/logical stuff like filters and frame creation and pushing and what not that cant be easily processed by a gpu. That would be sick.
I actually had one of these back in the day. Powerful, but boy was it ever loud.
Ahh my uncle picked one of these for cheap back when it was relatively new and used it for years. It's in my collectibles bin.
I miss the days you could buy a dual gpu card for a fraction of the price of a single card now. I had several of these over the years, the 7950gx2, this card, and one other I can't remember.
Guys the best card I recommend is:
GTX1050Ti
It’s very cheap you can play new titles on high setting and it would be smooth
You don’t need external power too it’s under 95£ so yeah I recommend it
I used to have a 4870x2 back in the day. It was a beast but it was overkill, and not in a good way. It drew 480w under full load and mine would hit 100C until i put a custom cooler on it. It also sounded like a jet engine inside your case.
To cut down on wastage per upgrade we need a modular gpu. Chose our own gpu chip and maximum memory chips too. That way the pcb would be future proof as you'll just need the modules and click into place then play.
It would be nice, but we know that will never happen..
4000 GPUs when I swapped to AMD for awhile up til this year.. think it was the 4870 I had then went to 6870, then 280x then 580 and now back on team green with a 1660 ti before I swapped to AMD had a 8800 GT
7:50 what? I played GTA V perfectly fine on my ryzen 5 3500u... Granted I couldnt crank the settings up due to 2GB of vram but still it was a solid experience for mobile integrated graphics very playable. I could get 1080p low/medium settings and around at around 35fps.
Now I have a 1660 super though and the experience is definitely better. Cranking settings up to max 1080p looks a lot nicer and I still get around 100fps... (75ish fps on online mode)
Awesome review of one of my favourite graphics cards!! It'd be great if you could review a GTX 295, which is Nvidia's response to this HD4870X2, and compare their perfomance :D
I like how you put the Animals vinyl in the thumbnail
Back in the day i had HD4870X2+4870 in crossfire , worked awesome in some games , i think FEAR scaled pretty much 100% , others not so much.
I use to have a HIS 4870, until 2018, it worked very well for me
So back in the day I was at Future Shop and I had a staff member there tell me what I could not afford what I was there for now I to me that is bad business so I asked him for his supervisor or manager on shift. Once the manager came over I explained that I don’t like being told I can’t afford what I was there for and that I think I will shop else where products. As he agreed that the employee was in the wrong and I dint yell to try and keep me as a customer he gave me 50% off I was there for this very graphics card so I ended I getting it on the cheap
2009 I remember this card. I bought a 4870 then few months later I bought another 2 crossfire because I couldn't afford this.
I was using one of these cards until a few years ago. It was a nice card for the time but I never got the same performance with Windows 10 as I did with Windows 7.
I had a xfx r9 295x2 a few years ago. When crossfire was working it has same performance as gtx 1080.
I had two of these in Crossfire. Things ran SO hot!
I have fond memories playing on my x2. I even picked up a 4870 for trifire but it wasn't really worth the effort. Nothing really scaled 3 GPUs that well. Awesome card!
It was actually the second time they did it. The first time was the HD 3870x2.
“They we’re usually testing it at the even higher resolution of 600p”
But you were running Skyrim at 1080p, that’s even higher? Was this just a mistake or did I mishear?
I ran 2 HD4850 cards with my Phenom 2 x3 720 for many years. It was a great budget gaming rig.
Something is wrong with those Battlefield 3 results.
My HD 4770 and Phenom 2 x4 965 managed to do 1080p with medium-high settings at stable 60 fps.
remember when 3dfx gave us SLI with the Voodoo 2 and then we got the Vodoo 5 5500 with two graphics chips on the same board. then ATI and Nvidia copied them and people started to say they invented dual card use
This was my dream card when i was young.
Of course I could not buy this card as a teenager but the dream remained.
Now that I have the possibility, I bought 2 x hd4870x2 and packed it together with a 1000 Watt power supply into a system.
It is useless and it gets extremely hot. But I have my dream computer from my youth.
Now it stands beside my Main Pc.
There was another dual gpu card, the Radeon R9 295x2. It was two R9 290X chips on a single card that came with a built-in AIO cooler, which had a fan on the rad and a fan in the middle of the card. When it was released in 2014 it was the most powerful card on the market.
I had a similar setup running back in the day (2x 4870 cards) and it was TRASH in Farcry when aiming down the hill into a crowded base, the microstutter made it impossible to aim AT ALL although the min and max FPS increased. I had to disable one card to make it playable again.
I have this in my rig right now temporarily it is quite capable
Not too bad with headphones on. Yeah, good assessment.
So this is the next to the last ATi owned graphics card, last gen was the HD 5XXX series of ATi. AMD bought ATi than put out the HD 6XXX series. I had an HD 4850 1GB version at that time, better color pallet with Radeon than GeForce, at the time.
The last ATI card was the X1950XTX I believe.
HD 6000, 7000, R9 290/390 were not left in dust.
So basically half a fan per gpu, and that a blower one.
i used to own a Sapphire 4870 and it was a really solid graphics at that time i had a much fun with it. i also had a 4850 which i still own. and a also used to own a 4890 all powered by Sapphire apart from the 4850 which was a asus model. i enjoy watching the video!
I remember when this card came out around the release of age of conan and it was dominating that game in performnace while i was on a meager 9800GTX+
399 for a dual card is insanely good by todays standards. You barely get a mid range for that now even if MSRP existed.
I had one! It introduced me to the world of artifacts and overheating problems.
I had the HD5970 - was an amazing card.
Bought one on the cheap years ago and ended up oven baking it back to life, pity that AMD doesn't give a rat's ass about continuing driver support despite there being some viable performance.
I had the ATI XFX HD4890 that was a great time that time
I had the 3870x2 and it sucked. Almost every game ran on 1 GPU. Only games like Borderlands 1, Dirt 2 and maybe Far Cry 3 were able to make use of multi-GPU. I did like how the ATI 3870X2 looked, though I wish I had the 4870x2 though haha. Back then, I didn't know so much about hardware.
Edit: I just checked out your 3870 x2 video and I'm amazed you managed 60fps at 1080p, as I played at 1680x1050 and never saw such FPS numbers (+ had a lot of artifacts)
The Windows drivers are abandoned and have been unsupported for years. Mesa's r600g driver probably outperforms it now.
Speaking of dual gpus, i was so damn jealous when one of my friends bought the 9800gx2.
I mean, a dual card in one?
Wait what about dual... DUAL cards?
They can't even fix the black screen bug in the rx 5700 xt.
I had 2 of these and an i7 920, they were awesome
Had one of these. I had to remove the plastic shroud and add two additional fans to keep it from melting.
The plastic shroud guides the air flow
I know but mine was reaching 100c in games until i modded the fans, still died a year after that.
I have an HD5970 :) It's a really nice graphics card, basically the X2 of the 5000 series. I found it at a junkshop for $35NZD and took a risk on it. Really good for Battlefield 4, The issue with it is its so huge you can't even fit it in most cases. The only case it fits in that I own is a Corsair 800D (the mini fridge).
I’ve got a “mini fridge” on mine. People might think your referring to phase cooling (-60c isle temps and -35c peak under load on FX-8350 at 1.7 Vcore with core temp peaking below 0c under load). It’s a nice little cooling unit... much bigger compressor, but it’s fairly small
@@jakegarrett8109 Fair point lol. I just found that once I had that case people joked it was a mini fridge because of how huge it is :) I have an FX8350 in it but at stock speeds cooled by a Hyper 212X. Frankly I'd never even put water cooling near it let alone sub ambiant stuff. I reserve that for less important systems like my overclocked P4.
amazing video but what is going on with the reloading animation at 4:35 ?
My ping was through the roof
I had this, though I don't remember right now which make. Yes it was fast, but I didn't keep it for as long as I could. It was not only getting very hot, but it was SO DAMN NOISY! It's like you had a huge vacuum cleaner in the room. I am not kidding.
Eventually I replaced it with a HD6850 which IIRC was not faster, but it was definitely quieter and IIRC with less power consumption too. Though I admit I didn't pay much attention to power consumption back then.
Now days even if I had the money I would never buy an almost 300W GPU.
Thanks for the video.
The music is from Airline Tycoon Evolution 💕
Bought two of these cards (xfx versions) off eBay a few years ago. Both were fried. You were lucky to pick up a working card.
A bit late but would like to see this graphics cards performance under linux
I loved the 4series Gpus. I had dual 4850s which were awesome until some driver borked crossfire and made most games unplayable in crossfire for 2 months:)
i had two of these back in the day! two of them running in crossfire