Layout Cont.

The HD4670 should not have any problems fitting in your case.  It is quite a bit smaller than the HD4870 and the HD3870 cards pictured above.  This would make an awesome card for a HTPC or a mini-LAN box.

Well, the good thing is this card is not going to prevent you from using any of your expansion slots.  It also gets all the power it needs from the PCI-E slot, so no need to hook an external power connector to it.

Testing and Overclocking:

Testing is going to be done with a variety of synthetic benches as well as actual games.  Synthetic benches were tested using the benchmarks standard settings.  Games were tested using 1920 x 1200 and 1680x1050 at high settings and 2xAA, unless otherwise stated.  ATI Cat 8.8 drivers were used.  The test system is as follows.

I used the Overdrive function built into the Catalyst control panel and the latest version of Rivatuner to get the final overclock of the card.  The factory settings are 750 core and 1000 memory.  I was able to get a mild overclock from the card.  The final results are 765 core and 1165 memory.

3DMark06:

Futuremark's 3dMark06 has become the go-to benchmarking tool when it comes to synthetic benchmarking.  Love it or hate it, there is no question that 3DMark06 is the measuring stick of video card performance industry wide.

We will be using Version 1.1.0 professional.  The free downloadable version can be found here.

The HD4670 is respectable for a mid-range video card that only costs $79.99. 

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