Diamond’s Unlocked Radeon HD 4870 XOC Black Edition Graphics

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Diamond’s Unlocked Radeon HD 4870 XOC Black Edition Graphics

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Deliver serious performance with Diamond’s Unlocked Radeon HD 4870 XOC Black Edition Graphics card.

“Unleash the power and Unlock Performance”
A New HD Visual Experience
CHATSWORTH, CA —June 27, 2008— Diamond Multimedia (www.diamondmm.com), a leading manufacturer of PC graphics cards, sound cards and communications products, launched today along with boutique system builder Smoothcreations, and Water cooling mavens, Danger Den the ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 XOC Black Edition graphics card. This card offers exquisite gaming capabilities combined with state of the art efficiency.

The HD 4870 is a smoking gun dual slot card, PCIE 2.0, with 512MB of DDR5 memory and a clock speed of 800 MHz. The memory speed is 1100 MHz and is designed with 800 stream processors. The HD 4870 provides plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX™ upgradeability with up to quad-GPU support. Continuing with ATI’s Power Play and 55nm processing technology, this card is the fastest and efficient. “The Diamond Radeon HD 4870 XOC Black Edition was clocked to kick some ass”. We didn’t just want a fast card out in the market, we wanted the fastest card that could kick the living daylights and bust some performance records, say Mario Gastelum, Director of Product Development & Engineering. “we wanted a card that kicked the competitions teeth into the curb”, and that’s exactly what our engineers accomplished”. “The firmware was custom designed to enable end users to go beyond the normal over clocked speeds and allow them to push their cards for higher performance via the catalyst control center.” The GPU’s custom firmware has been unlocked to push cards to GPU settings of up to 950 Mhz and Memory of up 1200 Mhz.

Diamond Teamed up with Premier Boutique system builder, SmoothCreations, to offer these powerful graphics cards to Smoothcreations legendary beauty and performance pc system platforms. “We wanted to complement beauty, artisan craftsmanship, and performance power to a gaming system, and Diamond helped us accomplish that”, says Jim Saling, CEO of SmoothCreations. In collaboration with Danger Den, Smoothcreations will be offering a water cooled edition as well.


All Diamond video cards carry the Diamond guarantee of quality assurance. Unlike many cards that are simply first to market, Diamond carefully tests and retests every new model for its ratio of performance to reliability. Diamond is legendary in the PC video card business for its less than 1 percent return rate. Diamond cards use superior connectors, cables and components, as well as undergo more thorough testing for heat susceptibility and durability.

Availability
Diamond Multimedia’s ATI Radeon HD 4870 XOC Black Edition will be available for purchase starting July 01, 2008 and will be available Exclusively at Premier Boutique System Builder Smoothcreations.

About Diamond Multimedia
Diamond provides the absolute best quality in advanced graphics, digital television, communications and sound hardware solutions for home and business users. Diamond products stand for performance, quality and value.

For the past two decades, Diamond Multimedia has been widely recognized as a pioneer in the graphics, sound and communications industries and as a key player in launching the multimedia revolution. Diamond is a new type of multimedia company that brings all of the differing technologies together under one brand. Diamond Multimedia is partnered with some of the top technology companies, including AMD, as an ATI graphics provider.

Diamond products are available to the public throughout North America through retailers, resellers and systems integrators, as well as, top technology product distributors. Corporate headquarters are located in Chatsworth, California.
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Re: Diamond’s Unlocked Radeon HD 4870 XOC Black Edition Graphics

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I had the (un)fortunate opportunity to review a number of these cards already (10+) with several other people as they have been on sale at NCIX.com for some time now. The cards are terrible right out of the box. To put it simply, they are nothing but regular 4870 cards with a new sticker and a new BIOS that lets one theoretically up the core clocks to 990/1200. In reality, the cards to not even hold up under all stress test at their stock 800/1100 speeds. This however comes as no surprise as Diamond did not do anything to these cards physically. Stock voltages, stock components, stock cooler. As it stands now this is rather unfortunate as the card had a lot of hype built around it and carried a lot of promises, which it does not deliver even by a long shot. If you do get a chance to review this card officially, do put it through some extensive stress testing at 800/1100, 825/1125, and 850/1150 clocks. I suggest 1h+ of ATITool artifact free, at least 15 minutes (45 recommended) of FurMark without a crash, a few hours of 3DMark06 loop testing with triangle batch tests on, and Crysis benchmark (two 99 repeat tests on high at 09:00h and 12:00h).
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