Sapphire Radeon HD4870 X2 2GB DDR5 Dual DVI/TVO PCI-Express Graphics Card

This is mind-blowing performance, folks...it chews up every game you throw at it, and was the only card that let me play Crysis at the detail settings that I wanted to. Held out from playing until now...and man, was I glad that I did.

Anti-aliasing comes almost free of any performance hit, and resolutions/quality settings previously considered ridiculously intensive for gaming are suddenly not that extravagant anymore. CFAA, especially Edge-Detect AA, deserves mention, as it is ATi's custom AA mode that kicks in at the shader level, and can thus be applied to almost any game.
COD 4 at 24x CFAA is indeed a sight to behold, and can be played with buttery smoothness.

The downsides to this card? First of all, it's comes at a price premium due to it's market leading performance. Secondly, 2 GPUs on one card can produce a lot of heat...you will need a case with good airflow, and plenty of room to install as well.

Lastly before buying, a PSU of...Read more

I purchased the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870x2 about a month and a half ago. The card is a full length card. If you have a small mid-tower it might not fit in your case. Also make sure that you have a good power supply. This card requires two power connections. In addition, make sure that you case is properly ventilated (my case temperature hovers around 26c idle and 31c). However, once the requirements above are met get ready for some serious eye-candies.

There is nothing you can throw at it that it will not handle. By the way, I have a 24" monitor and I run everything at 1920x1200 resolution. Blu-ray movies look incredible. I do not have the words to describe how beautiful the images are. A lot of people get caught up by the number of frame per second (fps)to purchase graphic cards. Remember that movies are shown at 24fps, so any card that can provide 24fps on an application or game will look extremely good. Why spend that much money on a graphic card? Peace of mind. For the...Read more

made. I will not comment on the performance as others have done that.

Other:
Pro's - Well . . . extremely high performance and easily configurable through the Catalyst Utility with many options. All the options you could want.
Con's - Extremely long. Carefully pick your box. I installed it in the Thermaltake Spedo Advance Package VI9001W2Z Full Tower Gaming Case with Max Airflow and See Through Window (Black)I purchased from amazon.com which has a huge interior (I highly recommend this box) and it barely fit lengthwise. It runs extremely hot . .. . so hot in fact that the heat conducted through the PCI-e 2.0 slot on to my motherboard and increased the MoBo heat to a level I previously had not seen in a MoBo . . . not dangerous but noticeable. To keep the heat down, the fan has to be set at a noisy level. The heat coming from the exhaust port in back will heat your room. I strongly suggest using water cooling on this baby. The Thermaltake Spedo I mentioned has...Read more