Palit Revolution 700
JC 13.01.2009 - 12:51 2361 4
JC
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Review @ bit-tech.netWhat it has in abundance is cooling ability. The triple slot, dual 80mm cooler is certainly very capable, cooling the card's twin GPUs between 8°C and 16°C cooler than those of a stock cooled card when under load. It's also audibly quieter than a stock 4870 X2 at both idle and load, and while never silent, is a marked improvement over the stock air cooler under every situation.
[...]While our overclocking proved that there was plenty of performance left to be unlocked, with the ability to easily match Sapphire's much more expensive water cooled HD 4870 X2 Atomic, mileage between GPUs will vary and there's no guarantee you'll get a card as capable as our review sample.
[...]There's also the downside of using such an absolutely massive card. Taking up three expansion slots, not to mention a whole lot of motherboard space means you'll need to think twice before picking the Revolution 700 up, lest you find it won't fit due to it obscuring SATA ports or fan headers. CrossFire setups will suffer from similar issues, with the triple slot cooler potentially obscuring your second PCI-E slot - not that we'd advise fitting a card too close to the R700 anyway, as it's cooling solution is reliant on good airflow for the twin 80mm cooling fans.
Perhaps the biggest problem though is Revolution 700's abysmal idle power consumption. While Palit has been using custom PCB and power delivery designs on its RV770 cards ever since launch day, in the past we've seen decreases in power consumption in comparison to stock cards, not increases, and especially not 130W increases, and at idle to boot! While average and peak loads are more in line with what we'd expect from a Radeon HD 4870 X2, the terribly high idle power consumption is a real problem here.
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SaxoVtsMike
R.I.P. Karl
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Bin in der Mittagspause auch drübergestolpert.
Computerbase hat die Gainward trippleslot X2 getestet welche ja baugleich sein soll, und dort gabs den ausreißer mitm stromverbrauch nicht...
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stevke
in the bin
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Ein extremes Riesenteil ist das. Ist da CFX eigentlich auch noch möglich, also wenn man ein Board mit 2 Slots Zwischenraum hat.
Das wäre ja mal krank.
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b_d
pixel imperfect
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Ein extremes Riesenteil ist das. Ist da CFX eigentlich auch noch möglich, also wenn man ein Board mit 2 Slots Zwischenraum hat.
Das wäre ja mal krank. der platz für die steckverbindung ist vorhanden, würde also mal ja sagen 
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SaxoVtsMike
R.I.P. Karl
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Theroetisch würde ich 2 von den dingern auf meinem rampage forumla unterbringen da zwischen dein beiden pcie slots 2 pciex1 dazwischen sind.
Praktisch hab ich aber _glaube_ ich zu wenig platz zwischen unterkante Mobo und case boden, da das tri slot teil übers mobo hinaus stehen würde..
Statt der 2. tri slot müßt ich halt ne _normale_ x2 nehmen..
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