| ATI Radeon 4770 - Power Consumption, Overclocking |
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| Written by Jeff_Tom | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monday, 27 April 2009 23:24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Power consumption was measured from the wall socket directly from the computer. Idle was taken after 5 minutes into the Windows desktop and Load was tested emphasizing gaming performance and the video card in Crysis' GPU demo.
For 40nm power consumption is a little higher than we'dlike but still 23W lower at load than a 4850 which it is almost as fast as. Overclocking the card was a breeze with ATI's Catalyst drivers. We maxed them out as far as the Catalyst control panel would allow to 830MHz core and 850MHz memory. While the drivers overclock excellently and it is quite easy to do the problem is it is very conservative! To a fault, the card was running cool and could probably go much higher with this dual slot cooler easily. We wish this would go higher and allow you to truly push things like AMD's Overdrive software.
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| Last Updated on Monday, 27 April 2009 23:38 |