Introduction

It’s pretty hard to publish a video review and I sure did find this out trying to edit about 95 takes. With all that said I’d like to introduce the first Video Review by Hi Tech Legion.

The Diamond Radeon HD 4890 XOC 1GB GDDR5 Video card is an overclocked version of the HD 4890. The Diamond HD 4890 XOC has a GPU clock of 925 MHz and a Memory clock of 1050 MHz. You will see in the following video that at a price of $254.00 USD (newegg.com) purchasing the Diamond 4890 XOC is very close or even better in price than some of it's competitors stock versions of the card. (XFX 4890 Xtreme $265.00, ASUS EAH4890 $270.00)

The Diamond Radeon HD 4890 XOC was tested on the Refreshed AMD Dragon Platform, other cards that were tested were the Diamond HD 3870 512MB GDDR3 which was on the AMD Spider Platform, the Diamond HD 4870 on the Original Dragon Platform and a stock ATI 4890 on the Refreshed Dragon Platform. The CPUs and motherboards used for these reviews were the MSI 790GX and Phenom II 940 X4 (Dragon), MSI 790FX and Phenom 9600 (Spider) and the ASUS M3A78T and Phenom II 955 X4 (Refreshed Dragon).

ATI and AMD have launched many new processors and video cards since the beginning of the year and have been focusing on the mainstream user. Since January of this year AMD has moved from AM2+ to AM3 which is a DDR3 Memory processor that is also reverse compatible with the AM2+ motherboards to still utilize DDR2 memory. ATI has also progressed as well with their launch of the 4890 and just recently with the 4770. Diamond Multimedia who is a manufacturer of ATI based video cards has followed suite as well and has developed the HD4890 XOC which I will be reviewing.

Total cost of a system refresh: