Introduction

Is it time to upgrade again? Do you feel that your system needs a boost in performance? Is it within your budget to even think about it? Let's face it, if you like to game on your computer, the stress of constantly pushing your GPU to its limits will eventually cause a decrease in performance. How many average users constantly check their temperatures or even clean the dust off the heatsink fans on a regular basis just to make sure their video card is not being overheated by something that could be easily taken care of? Not many, and overheating is one of the major causes of video card failure when it happens on a regular basis.

The Diamond Multimedia Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 is a solution that may fit your needs. The Radeon HD 4870 is Diamond Multimedia’s entry for the mainstream gamer, and it utilizes the ATI Radeon RV770 GPU which contains TeraScale graphics and enhanced anit-aliasing and ansitropic filtering to boost performance while gaming even in higher resolutions.

The Product

The Diamond Multimedia Radeon HD 4870 512 MB GDDR5 comes packaged in a bright black box which caught my eye immediately due to the black and white image of the mascot at the right of the box. (hey, I’m a guy!) The back of the box lists some of the new features offered with the video card and look there’s the mascot again.