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RSS spidered article Diamond Radeon HD 4870 1GB

Added on: 11:00:49 26th February 2009

Diamond Radeon HD 4870 1GBNormally, adding more video memory is a mistake. It's a ploy by the manufacturer to make their card look special, it's a way to make a card sound more capable than it is, and it's a way to tack on a significant sticker price without adding any component costs. Most often with these cards, the larger frame buffer is actually a downgrade. It's cheap, old memory, and much, much slower. The practical upshot is that these inflated cards are no better than their counterparts, and sometimes a little worse.

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