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HD 4870 1GB - Sapphire Toxic Ed Card Review Part 2/2

HD 4870 1GB - Sapphire Toxic Ed Card Review Part 2/2 Welcome to PCWizKid’s Tech Talk. Today, I wanted to do part 2 of the HD 4870 Toxic Edition from Sapphire. This card comes already pre-over clock like I mentioned in my first review. We’re going to go onto the ATI catalyst drivers and look at the ATI over drive utility, so that portion allows you to manually adjust an over clock the GPU memory and the core memory here, the memory clock and of course check and see and monitor how it’s doing, right? So that’s one of the beauties about this. You can do everything from here. Now, I like to do things manually you can obviously use the auto tune button there on the top right corner or the slides are here to adjust it in a small steps, so you know that this card came at 780 megahertz GPU clock and 1000 memory clock, so I’m increasing it a little bit, 1056 megahertz here and then click on test and test it see if it passes, right? It will run some stress test initially to see if it hangs and if it doesn’t you accept it and then you can further stress test this on your own. Now, I suggest that you increase the fan okay, so the fan by default can set. It can set to auto so you don’t want to run it in auto you want to manually override that and increase the fan’s speed I know it’s going to be loud but you don’t want your GPU to burn out, so increase that slider slide it over at the beginning. You might be running it too fast then maybe giving it too much of cooling but you can never have enough at the beginning later on you can always decrease and monitor the temperature and see if it makes a difference, right? So, after you’ve done your adjustments then you can apply it and then monitoring keep running test and stress test it. Now, the GPU settings can all be monitored and checked also from the GPU-Z tool right? So, if you download that you can Google it into free utility it gives you all the information about when it was made, the die size, the memory clock speeds, the bandwidths, all of that is in here so that you can basically get all the specs right out of your card. And of course, what did the card came as default for the GPU and the memory clock and what it set it right now so you can see you know, how much difference you have applied to it, all in one little spot, so these are very nice little tool. Now, after you check this and you use this to monitor right, of course your video card. The next thing to do is to run some benchmarks. Now, just before I do that there’s another utility called the AMD GPU clock tool that you can get for free and it also allows you to over clock and increase in small steps and small increments the memory and the GPU clocks speed or you can obviously reset things. Now, my system specs for benchmarks here are basically the same as in one part nothing has changed okay, so that’s going to be the same 3-gigahertz speed that I’m going to run this at 3D mark 06 when I run that gave me a fairly a decent score of 12673D marks compared to two other systems which have a same CPU but two different video cards the 4850 Times 2 and the GTX 260 those two had a higher 3D mark but those are higher end cards so they’re newer, right? So, they are a little bit faster but overall I was very pleased with the 3D marks and the 3D mark advantage that I was setting and when I run the crises we’re ahead benchmarks for example. I went and I’ve got the latest crises we’re ahead not the first but the second version. I turn on everything basically to a very high full blown settings but I run it at 1024 x 7687 resolution just for starters just to see on the ambush level, see how it does, right? And that one basically gave me about 28 frames per second at that set up, bench mark set up. Now, of course if I adjust the resolution to 1280 x 1024 and reduce it from very high to high then I’ve got 34 frames per second, so you can adjust it a little bit back and forth and get more frames per second on that, right? Sometimes you don’t even notice the difference, but it was very smooth very nice, so again so this gives you a good idea on how well this card performs when it’s over clock and you compare to other types of cards. So, again I like to thank Sapphire for providing me this card and I hope you enjoy this video and thank you for watching.

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HD 4870 1GB - Sapphire Toxic Ed Card Review Part 2/2

Welcome to PCWizKid’s Tech Talk. Today, I wanted to do part 2 of the HD 4870 Toxic Edition from Sapphire. This card comes already pre-over clock like I mentioned in my first review.

We’re going to go onto the ATI catalyst drivers and look at the ATI over drive utility, so that portion allows you to manually adjust an over clock the GPU memory and the core memory here, the memory clock and of course check and see and monitor how it’s doing, right? So that’s one of the beauties about this. You can do everything from here.

Now, I like to do things manually you can obviously use the auto tune button there on the top right corner or the slides are here to adjust it in a small steps, so you know that this card came at 780 megahertz GPU clock and 1000 memory clock, so I’m increasing it a little bit, 1056 megahertz here and then click on test and test it see if it passes, right? It will run some stress test initially to see if it hangs and if it doesn’t you accept it and then you can further stress test this on your own.

Now, I suggest that you increase the fan okay, so the fan by default can set. It can set to auto so you don’t want to run it in auto you want to manually override that and increase the fan’s speed I know it’s going to be loud but you don’t want your GPU to burn out, so increase that slider slide it over at the beginning. You might be running it too fast then maybe giving it too much of cooling but you can never have enough at the beginning later on you can always decrease and monitor the temperature and see if it makes a difference, right?

So, after you’ve done your adjustments then you can apply it and then monitoring keep running test and stress test it. Now, the GPU settings can all be monitored and checked also from the GPU-Z tool right? So, if you download that you can Google it into free utility it gives you all the information about when it was made, the die size, the memory clock speeds, the bandwidths, all of that is in here so that you can basically get all the specs right out of your card.

And of course, what did the card came as default for the GPU and the memory clock and what it set it right now so you can see you know, how much difference you have applied to it, all in one little spot, so these are very nice little tool. Now, after you check this and you use this to monitor right, of course your video card. The next thing to do is to run some benchmarks.

Now, just before I do that there’s another utility called the AMD GPU clock tool that you can get for free and it also allows you to over clock and increase in small steps and small increments the memory and the GPU clocks speed or you can obviously reset things.

Now, my system specs for benchmarks here are basically the same as in one part nothing has changed okay, so that’s going to be the same 3-gigahertz speed that I’m going to run this at 3D mark 06 when I run that gave me a fairly a decent score of 12673D marks compared to two other systems which have a same CPU but two different video cards the 4850 Times 2 and the GTX 260 those two had a higher 3D mark but those are higher end cards so they’re newer, right? So, they are a little bit faster but overall I was very pleased with the 3D marks and the 3D mark advantage that I was setting and when I run the crises we’re ahead benchmarks for example.

I went and I’ve got the latest crises we’re ahead not the first but the second version. I turn on everything basically to a very high full blown settings but I run it at 1024 x 7687 resolution just for starters just to see on the ambush level, see how it does, right? And that one basically gave me about 28 frames per second at that set up, bench mark set up.

Now, of course if I adjust the resolution to 1280 x 1024 and reduce it from very high to high then I’ve got 34 frames per second, so you can adjust it a little bit back and forth and get more frames per second on that, right? Sometimes you don’t even notice the difference, but it was very smooth very nice, so again so this gives you a good idea on how well this card performs when it’s over clock and you compare to other types of cards.

So, again I like to thank Sapphire for providing me this card and I hope you enjoy this video and thank you for watching.

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HD 4870 1GB - Sapphire Toxic Ed Card Review Part 2/2

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