Friday, July 17th 2009
HIS Readying AGP HD 4670
ATI partners continue to show love to AGP users. HIS and PowerColor in particular, have been planning AGP graphics cards based on mid-range, current-generation Radeon HD 4000 series GPUs for a while now. It looks HIS is the first one to materialise them, with the HIS HD 4670 IceQ AGP. The company came up with another of its IceQ series designs, sporting the iconic IceQ cooler, and the blue PCB. The graphics card holds all the more importance to AGP platform users, as the Radeon HD 4670 packs 7.1 channel HDCP compliant audio passed over HDMI.
The card uses the AGP-8X interface. It draws auxiliary power from a 4-pin Molex connector. Under the hood is a Radeon HD 4670 GPU clocked at 750 MHz, with 1 GB of GDDR3 memory over a 128-bit interface, clocked at 873 MHz (1746 MHz DDR). Output is care of a DVI, D-Sub, and audio-routed HDMI. It is priced at US $129.99 on Amazon, with an optional rebate sending it down to $119.99.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
The card uses the AGP-8X interface. It draws auxiliary power from a 4-pin Molex connector. Under the hood is a Radeon HD 4670 GPU clocked at 750 MHz, with 1 GB of GDDR3 memory over a 128-bit interface, clocked at 873 MHz (1746 MHz DDR). Output is care of a DVI, D-Sub, and audio-routed HDMI. It is priced at US $129.99 on Amazon, with an optional rebate sending it down to $119.99.
64 Comments on HIS Readying AGP HD 4670
775 is old, but its REPLACEMENT is not. In fact, its replacement isnt even out yet. Will be very soon, however.
sigh, sata is a bad comparison. its backwards compatible. AGP and PCI-E are not. same with 1.1 and 2.0.
As for office... sure, why not. MS could tie new office in with new OS. its still capable of reading and saving older formats for older OS/office, so why not.
www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-radeon-power,2122-3.html
4670 uses even less power, but the difference at idle is minimal. The problem with 4670 is it only has about 60% as much RAM bandwidth as 3850 and it shows sometimes. 4670 is either barely faster or is slower than a 3850 most of the time.
As for AGP going on forever, whatever. But what is funny is seeing people repeatedly pay the AGP card premium. That's dumb.
90%+ of the new systems I sell go out with XP.
I even have a lot of customers come to me after being told they can't have XP.
Best part is a lot of engineering companies can't run vista for software compatibility issues which they are not going to fork 50k+ for new software because they need 1 new computer.
Now that is over with..
The 4670 is on par and slightly faster than a 3870 depending, so yes it's faster than a 3850.
But that being said, it is nice to see some new cards still coming out in AGP but the prices are just stupid.. I myself am in need of a decent agp card for an older machine, keep looking for like a 6800 or something, the more these get released the lower the realistic prices on the 6800s will come down :P
Oh, wait, :shadedshuMussels!!!! You are staying up too late, or getting up too early! Dont you see the sarcasm/irony in my post?