XFX Radeon HD4770 512MB PCIe

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Zitat: Editor´s Choice Pros: + Good performance + Good Price Cons: - No game bundle The worst thing I can say about the XFX HD 4770 is that it lacked a game bundle. At the low price, that the video card sells for that caveat is very easy to overlook. You can get a pair of these cards for some Crossfire action for under $250. The performance for the price makes the XFX HD 4770 one of the best video card bangs for your bucks.

Zitat: Having already seen Radeon HD 4770 parts from another couple of vendors before, we came into this review already knowing what to expect in performance terms, and unsurprisingly XFX´s offering didn´t disappoint in this respect - Gaming at 1680x1050 offers little trouble for this relatively diminutive little card, while even 1920x1200 is a definite option without anti-aliasing, and occasionally a possibility with the extra eye candy enabled to boot. What did surprise us a little however is that the release of AMD´s Catalyst 9.5 driver has added a little extra sheen to these performance metrics in certain titles, giving us some nice little frame rate boosts in titles such as Fallout 3 which are certainly most welcome, and it´s good to see AMD doing their bit to optimise performance for new parts as they appear as quickly as possible. Of course, perhaps the biggest question surrounding XFX´s particular take on the Radeon HD 4770 is whether the company´s decision to stick with AMD´s original reference design benefits it all, and to be perfectly honest the answer is - I´m not sure. On a personal level I do prefer the original cooler design - It may be bigger, but the fact that it exhausts hot air out of the chassis is a definite plus, leaving me wishing only that it did more to cool the board´s memory modules (something which would surely have improved the overclocking prowess of our sample too). XFX´s choice of cooler also holds an edge in both temperature and noise level terms, although in both cases this difference is so slight I wouldn´t place it high in my list of considerations when picking out which Radeon HD 4770 part to purchase. Where XFX have impressed however (and in line with what we´ve seen from some of their other AMD-based offerings) is when it comes to pricing - Despite using this alledgedly more expensive cooler and board design which was dropped by other AIBs on account of its cost, and despite bundling a copy of the fabulously fun DirectX 10.1 title H.A.W.X. with the card, XFX´s Radeon HD 4770 holds its own in pricing terms with competing solutions and designs admirably if you´re willing to shop around. Even if you´re not too worried about which cooler or design is better, the quality of XFX´s overall bundle might be a decent draw if you can pick it up for the same price as other more sparsely kitted out offerings.

Zitat: The bottom line on the XFX card is: this card is priced online for $109.99 which is the MSRP ATI suggests for this card. You get the performance, features and support that you would expect from a card with the XFX branding. XFX bundles their usual hardware and the driver CD comes with an automatic link to the best drivers suited for the card. DirectX 10.1 games have started hitting store shelves, improving performance in games that support it. Buying a $100 video card used to mean sacrificing performance, or features, but the $110 video card of today has both in abundance. ATI is the first video chip company to move to 40 nanometer manufacturing technology, providing lower power consumption, smaller die sizes and more performance than the same sized chip on an older manufacturing process like 55nm.