In 25th of this month (some say it will announce in July 8th) the first graphic card with GDDR5 memory module will be announced. The ATI Radeon HD 4870 utilized with 800 shader processors and 512MB GDDR5 memory and 256bit memory interface. When it comes out, the price will be as low as 299USD. Actually it is selling in HK with the price tag 320USD. now let’s see its Autopsy pics.

And, it beats GTX 260, in price and performance. Our review will be out in days, keep tuned.

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CPU:

• TC Magazine reports TSMC making dual-core VIA Nano
• Xtremesystems reports Intel Nehalem benchmarking result

Graphic Card:

• Tom’s hardware Taiwan previews Radeon HD 4870
• HKEPC reports Radeon HD 4870 benchmark
• TweakTown reviews 4 HD 4850 in CrossFireX
• Digitimes reports nVIDIA cut mid-range GPU price
• Fudzilla reports Radeon HD 4870 being in short supply, Sapphire & PowerColor announce HD 4870 and Geforce GTX 260 comes on Wednesday
• HEXUS reports Inno3D announcing its NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

Storage:

• NordicHardware confers Western Digital planning 74Gb and 150GB VelociRaptors
• Digitimes reports Sony launching first BD Combo drive in July in Taiwan

PowerColor had announced the first 4850 earlier this month and now it jumps the gun again to announce HD 4870.

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The Guys over at OCworkBench tried ASUS SmartDoctor and find out the utility can adjust fan speed from 0% to 100%.

Rivatuner needs a update to support HD 4850, and according to Unwinder the latest verion won’t out until the end of July. So seems HD 4850 users need another utility to adjusting fan speed.

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