Thread: Palit Radeon HD 4870 Sonic

For a long time since we saw the light output of the HD 48xx series, AMD / ATI showing the acclaimed RV770 chip. The success of this series has been so complete that the signature red is regaining much ground as far as the graphics market is concerned. Because of this success many of the manufacturers have not missed any opportunity and have decided to escape the reference model for designing their own versions, which have an occasional improvement and innovations in architecture.

Palit did not want to be left behind and today to delight the whole family directly brings to our table to the Radeon HD 4870 Sonic. As is known this series of giant Hong Kong is characterized by providing improved cooling solutions and a small gift in the frequencies.

Through this review we dedicate all mysteries and benefits of this card and compare it with a more conservative model of HD 4870 to determine whether offers improvements over the reference version.

The contents of the package is quite sparsely populated to be a card of this caliber a power adapter Y in case your power supply has a single 6-pin connector DVI-VGA and DVI-HDMI and a multilingual installation manual is all that makes the card company.

The rear panel is quite different from the reference version and that does not bring the typical starting grid for the warm air outlet with most dual-slot cards. In their place are two DVI connectors that are already standard today. Below we can see that also has a Display Port output and a mysterious switch. This is the moment we ask What is your purpose?

A sticker attached to the harness which is responsible for securing the dissipation system indicates that if removed will invalidate the warranty. However this will not pose many problems because the cooling system that includes the card is quite effective and unlikely we tempt you to change it.