Reviews - Sapphire's custom Radeon HD 4730 512MB graphics card review. What is it?

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A cross between Radeon HD 4870, 4850, and 4770, it seems. Read on to find out.

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So anyone reckon this WILL be able to be turned into a full fat 4870 with a bios flash?

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Originally Posted by cobhc

So anyone reckon this WILL be able to be turned into a full fat 4870 with a bios flash?

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No it will not be. The cores will be locked physically no Bios flash will unlock them just as you couldn't make a 4830 a 4850 with a BIOS flash.

In addition to that it uses a different memory controller (or at the very least scaled back) and has only half the ROPs all in all it is a different card and a BIOS flash will not make it a 4870.

Nope, I reckon you *may* get the ROP's back but the memory bus will be halved still, thus getting you something about half as fast again...

:juggle:

Then Tarinder shouldn't have said "Further, it opens up the tantalising possibility of potentially flashing the BIOS to a full HD 4870 512MB." in the conclusion.

How do you, smart people, erase the advertisment? I just want to, simply, read the article!!!
it's just getting me very nervous.
... because you asume I'm so smart to get over it.

While registering, I bet millions bucks that more people do know what or where Bucharest is, than Kaliningrad (that's about GMT+something ... you stupid, ignorant people from nexus.dot)

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Originally Posted by martian57

How do you, smart people, erase the advertisment? I just want to, simply, read the article!!!
it's just getting me very nervous.
... because you asume I'm so smart to get over it.

While registering, I bet millions bucks that more people do know what or where Bucharest is, than Kaliningrad (that's about GMT+something ... you stupid, ignorant people from nexus.dot)

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And you registered just to spawn that crap? How sad of you. Especially considering your countless spelling mistakes that just show how you're not very smart either.

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Originally Posted by martian57

How do you, smart people, erase the advertisment? I just want to, simply, read the article!!!
it's just getting me very nervous.
... because you asume I'm so smart to get over it.

While registering, I bet millions bucks that more people do know what or where Bucharest is, than Kaliningrad (that's about GMT+something ... you stupid, ignorant people from nexus.dot)

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This website is, I imagine, ad-funded. So removing the ads would force Hexus to charge for access to the site.. hardly a valid business proposition.

Personally I see no point to this hateful 4730 card.
its too long, slower than a 4830, uses so much more power...

and what marketing joker thinks its great to use gddr5 then put it on a 128 bit bus...

better to jsut keep selling 4830 until the 40nm core production is sufficient then complete the rest of the 47xx range.

a bit of a rant, but these 4730 cards are just so pointless!