Asus EAH4870 Dark Night Review
April 20, 2009 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
There was once a time where kings ruled the land. Together a king and his knights would destroy their enemies and conquer new lands. Sadly, those days are gone, but one knight still lives on: The Dark Knight. No, I’m not talking about Batman. I’m talking about Asus’s Dark Knight video card series. If nVidia is one kingdom then ATI is another land all together. The two are in a desperate fight to take over the territory and maintain control. As soon as one is able to hold any ground, the other sends another strike.
We just recently looked at Asus’s ENGTS GTS 250, which was a member of this dark family. It featured a custom cooler with four heat pipes and didn’t perform half bad. However, the ENGTS 250 isn’t the only Dark Knight hanging around. ATI, with the help of Asus, has turned its 4870 into a medieval, armor clad god.
Today we will be looking at the EAH4870, which as stated above, is a member of Asus’s Dark Knight series. If a video card’s cooling solution is its armor, then the EAH4870 must have gone to the same blacksmith as then ENGTS 250. It uses the same four heat pipe cooling solution, which worked pretty well on the 250. It was both cool and quiet, the latter being something ATI’s 48XX series cards aren’t known for. Anyway, enough talk, let’s find out if this Knight can live up to its title.
