Reviews - Sapphire (AMD) Radeon HD 4670: bullying the mainstream market

I agree about the 3D bars but the flash is just flash. It's not something that will halt your system...
They've probably designed the graph system so it will use flash most likely because they can dynamically change the values (maybe it loads the graph data from an xml file) without having to reupdate the images (like the old way) hence why DR said it's a benefit to them.

I suppose if their graph system was AJAX people would still, not moan but be unsatisfied.

What system specs are you running that flash causes to slow down.

I still use and E520 (Dell - I know!!) with a 7600GT, does what I need. There wasn't many games worth upgrading for, but with the way the price wars are going, I may be able to pick up a decent single slot, although I'm still limited by length (length -LOL).

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Originally Posted by chrestomanci

I also think the 3D graphs are harder to read and hide information. They are drawn in perspective which can make two bars that are the same size appear different.

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That is why we do two things:

1. Label each result with its precise value
2. Use a default viewing angle that is not too far off the normal, to avoid a misleading perspective.

You can click and drag the graph to change the perspective if you so wish.

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Originally Posted by Steve

You can click and drag the graph to change the perspective if you so wish.

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Very nice, but it still can't go to 2D mode. Just won't let me drag that little bit to get there. Plus the Legend overlaps the bars sometimes.

I'm tempted to get one of these for my media box. Means I'll be able to play some games on my HDTV now as well as watching movies etc. Screen res is only 1366*768 so should produce similar results to the 1280*1024 graphs.

BTW I think the flash graphs are very nice.

I would have liked to see how one of these paired up to the 3870 in the review. As you can get one for around £100-£120 nowdays.

But must admit the 4800 series are excellent by ATI ... Great work.

McT

Anyone seen these in stock yet?

Scan's are all £67+ and pre-order only: http://www.scan.co.uk/Index.aspx?NT=1-0-94-584-0

Ebuyer have some at £55 :) for pre-order: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149199 Not quite £50, but still very nice.

Wonder how efficent they are for folding@home?

i'm thinking of putting one in my dell. hope my 305w psu holds up. just what i need for playing hd movies on my shiny 40 inch tv.