Shop online for Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 1 GB DDR3 HDMI / DVI / VGA PCI Express Graphics Card
Band : Sapphire
Model : 100296HDMI
Product Features :
- PCI Express x16 bus interface
- 128 bit DDR3 memory interface
- Microsoft DirectX 10 1 support
- OpenGL 2 0 support
- Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
>> Yes this works with Sims 3
Forget all these silly shooter games does the card work with the latest game in the most popular franchise in history Yes It passes EA s EasyInfo assessment easily for Sims 3
I d been able to play Sims 3 with all the graphics options set to low with my on board graphics but my display adapter crashed if my Sims used the tv computer or dollhouse No problems with this card with the game set to med high graphics options I m still getting over the textures which are so much more defined at the high end
My main concern about buying a new card was compatibility I knew I had a PCIe slot but I wasn t sure if the power supply was adequate I ve got a fairly common computer HP Pavilion desktop model a1720n 2 years old Vista 32 bit Intel Core 2 Duo 1 86 GHz 3 GB RAM and the power supply seems to be adequate if it helps anyone with a similar set up Installation was no trouble at all the a1720n and probably any newer Pavilion will automatically switch from the on board graphics to the new card so no mucking about in the bios was needed
In Vista you may get a pop up telling you that Windows is having issues right about the time the driver software tells you to reboot to complete the installation Ignore the pop up and reboot Windows is having issues because the installation isn t complete
There is a new version of the driver for Vista/Win 7 at ATI s website I installed from the CD and then went to the site via the ATI software s link but you might save yourself a bit of time downloading the Catalyst Control Center suite before you install the card
>> Great performance
First note I m a long time Nvidia user so I was concerned about this card Replaced my 8500GT 512 MB with this one The 4670 was easy to install has less power consumption doesn t overheat and superb performance
I have noticed significant improvement in all my games Were I was playing Fallout 3 at maximum of 1280x1024 on high settings with some lag now I m playing at 1440x900 in ulta high settings and no lag
2 downsides for me was the audio built into the video card since it disable my onboard sound and I have no hookups for this type of audio Disabled it and all was well
Second was I was used to my screen auto adjusting to various resolutions in games This one doesn t do that like my 8500GT did so I found had to set resolution to a specific one to account for my widescreen no big deal just annoying if you re not used to it lol
>> great card FAST SHIPPING
amazon is amazing I ordered at 12pm my order shipped at 2 30pm same day and arrived next day 12pm granted i live about 40 miles from the warehouse in LA still the product arrived in excellent condtion and is a very good value card
my windows experience index for graphics is now 6 7 from 4 2 am running a quad core athlon 630 with 4gb ddr3 ram and asus 785g chipset mobo windows 7 64bit another plus is that with the card my memory index score also improved to 7 3 from 5 9 will be trying it out on crysis later
card is QUIET and cool and short fits in my MICRO ATX case
cons teh fan blocks access to one of my PCI slots i have two slots below the PCI E x16 slot
