Hi all,

We have just published a review of *Sapphire's ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB
Toxic graphics card*. If you could post a link on your site that would
be very much appreciated.

*Link:*
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/02/23/sapphire-ati-radeon-hd-4870-1gb-toxic/1


*Picture:*
http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2009/02/sapphire-ati-radeon-hd-4870-1gb-toxic/fp_img.jpg


*Quote:
*/Up until this morning though, we'd have agreed with that because the
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1GB was selling for over £220 - it's hard to
justify what amounts to a five percent performance improvement and a
fancy cooler when the reference one isn't exactly disappointing. But
with the price being realigned to just under £195, we think it's worth
taking the punt if you've decided that the Radeon HD 4870 1GB is the
right choice for you.

What makes the choice difficult is that the Radeon HD 4870 1GB and
GeForce GTX 260-216 are incredibly well matched not only on price, but
also on performance across the board. Right now, the favour seems to
have tipped AMD's way, but it could quite easily flip the other way when
you consider that of the five benchmarks the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1GB
Toxic won against the GeForce GTX 260-216, two of them were by less than
five percent. What's more, it's quite conceivable that some of the newer
titles that we'll be adding to our suite soon could go either way -
neither the Radeon HD 4870 1GB nor GeForce GTX 260-216 are a bad choice
at this price point, frankly./

*

*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley
www.bit-tech.net