HIS Radeon HD 4670 IceQ Native HDMI 1 GB DDR3 AGP Graphics Card (H467QS1GHA)
HIS Radeon HD 4670 IceQ Native HDMI 1 GB DDR3 AGP Graphics Card (H467QS1GHA)
- HIS IceQ technology is endorsed as the most efficient cooling technology among the current mainstream graphic cards' series. HIS IceQ can actively draw the air inside your PC case to cool down the card, and blows amounts of hot air out of your case.
- Chipset: Radeon HD 4670 / Process Technology: 55nm / Stream Process Units (320) /
- Core clock: 750 Mhz / Memory Clock: 873 Mhz (1746 mhz effective)
- Memory Size: 1GB / Memory Bus: 128bit / Memory Type: GDDR3
- DirectX: 10.1 / OpenGL: 2.1 / Vertex/Pixel Shadder: 4.1
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Comment from toast
Time: September 23, 2011, 3:20 pm
The last AGP card you will ever need (if you still actually need one),
I bought this for my aging Dell 4600, which is a 3.1 Ghz single core processor. I am running it with 3GB of ram with minimal programs on Windowx XP SP2.; so very old. I bought this to supplement my PS3 and be able to play some games that are not available for console or solely for XBox 360.
After popping this card into my AGP slot, I was able to install the latest drivers and had no problem connecting through HDMI (which is a plus for this card). This is important though. The video card requires a double slot inside your computer. One for the video card connecting the AGP and another for space for the fan. If you have little room or use all of your PCI slots, then you might have issues with this.
My only real difficulty was with the software. I downloaded 10-6_agp-hotfix_xp32_dd_ccc.exe from ATI and the drivers worked perfectly. However, by default the viewing screen is skewed by a 15% I think, and this can only be changed in Catalyst Control Center, which I could not get to load. I had downgrade to 9-9_xp32-64_ccc_lang1.exe just for the CCC to work properly. Not sure exactly why this occurred, but it caused me a headache of a few hours trying to driver clean and re-install a dozen times.
Anyway after fixing the issue, I promptly booted up Left For Dead 2, and all I can say is wow. I am able to run it at 1920×1080 with most settings at high. The rich detail looked better than my PS3 does in most games. I also tried Fallout 3 and am able to run most setting at max; had to turn down some AA and AF settings however. Regardless, it was a huge boost in visual quality than my previous X700. I plan on trying out Splinter Cell next, and will report back.
Keep in mind though, this is a a bit expensive compared to a similar PCI Express card. And, if you plan to upgrade your system anytime soon, then I wouldn’t recommend purchasing this. However, if you need something to revitalize that aging system of yours, then you will not be let down.
Comment from Careful Buyer
Time: September 23, 2011, 3:27 pm
Smooth Installation for Last and Fastest AGP Video Card,
I have all three cards that run the high end of this still supported and venerable AGP format (phooey to all the PCIe video card nay sayers!). They are the ATI Radeon variety Sapphire HD3850 256 bit 512MB DDR3, the Tul Powercolor HD3850 256 bit 512 MB DDR3, and now the HIS HD4670 126 bit 1GB DDR3. All of these cards are in identical ancient but still fast running Dell Inspirons Model 4600s. These old computers are running the fastest socket 478s out there (3.4Ghz EE) maxed out with 4GB of PC3200 ram running WinXP Pro SP3. They are all in the same room on the same network made specifically for weekend gaming get-togethers. The Sapphire is the only card I found to install easily with the latest drivers on the ATI/AMD website (why this card got a 4/5 instead of 5/5; AMD acquired ATI btw). I tried to install using ATI’s latest drivers as of this writing, but was not able to do so. In all fairness, using the included driver CD that comes with the card had it installed without a hitch. The same goes for the PowerColor variety not being able to install the latest ATI/AMD drivers; therefore, needing its own native driver CD for effortless installation. Sapphire seems to have their compatibility issues all worked out being able to use the latest ATI/AMD drivers (Catalyst 10.9 Suite as of this writing) never needing the included driver CD.
All of these cards need and are run on 500+Watt power supply to function well. HIS got it right this time with the HD4670 with no stupid PCIe double molex to single 6pin power connector. Instead, they treat us as normal human beings and put what we already have in our computers, a single garden variety Molex power connector. Thank you HIS! Less wiring, more room for air flow. However, both the HIS and Tul Powercolor varieties occupy two pci slots whereas the Sapphire only occupies one. Space was not an issue, however, even in these tiny computer box Dells with no-name motherboards inside.
Choose your poison: the Sapphire is sleek, the PowerColor is monstrous long and meaty, and the HIS is stacked thick and solid. Having them all, I can say the HIS runs cooler than the other two and the resolution seems to be able to handle about a notch higher than the other two with settings maxed. The other two can do it, no doubt with the 256-bit memory bus that HIS ‘forgot’ to put into their HD4670; but nonetheless, the HIS seems to be smoother when panning 360 in games like Dungeons & Dragons Online and Crysis (better GPU and more video memory, even if smaller 128bit memory bus). For anyone who is looking to have native HDMI out on an old system, this is the card for you. This one feature alone makes it worth getting for everyone out there who is cost conscious and does not want to buy a new computer.
Let’s face it, if you are not a gamer, then all you care about is internet, writing and printing stuff, and watching a movie, blu-ray or otherwise, on your nice HDMI flat screen. A $5 HDMI cable and this card will be overkill for your big screen TV internet dreams. All this on computer systems that were made over 7 years ago! Tell me that this isn’t great! Do I work for any of these companies? No. I am just glad someone out there figured out there was a market for people like me who like to be able to do things with my old computers that the rest of the techworld gave up on long time ago. The only thing that does suck is the price matches that of video cards that are way faster but have a different format meaning having to get an updated computer (NOT!). HIS seems to know this and gets you in your pocketbook on this point (and why I only bought one to replace a GeForce7950GT, the fastest NVIDIA agp card). However, if you get this card on Amazon or other certain retailers, they are offering a $20 rebate to take the sting out of the price. Long review yes, but I needed to do something to pass the time while my game download was taking place…..and now its done…so back to gaming on the big screen TV…aaahhh
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