As for power draw, I wouldn't hold my breath for powerplay implementation. Let's wait and see. So high idle power is pretty common with 4670 and 4650 cards? That's too bad--I'll pass. The idle power draw of the 4670 series differences a bit, but is by far one of the lowest. http://www.xbitlabs.com/...

Thanks for such an useful info on VGA power consumption. Btw, I recently found the same 4670 chips with different PCB designs (ASUS, HIS, Powercolor tested) would cause different whole system power figures. HIS (91W) is the most energy efficient, ASUS (94W) is average, and Powercolor (97W) is the l...

I think 4670 is more or less the same with 3850. Though I've never seen a 256MB version, 4670 did benefit from 512MB GDDR3. I saw this 4650 with 256MB of GDDR4 . This should be a very low power card. That company also has a 4670 with 256 MB. It has a HDMI connection and a special type of active coo...

But I have a strong feeling that voltage doesn't drop - temperture almost doesnt change. Any way I can check it? If this is the case, I'll be returning it. With HWMonitor you can check the current gpu voltage and minimum and maximum since program start. The newest version 1.13 has a bug and doesn't...

alecmg wrote:Is it worth to get 1GB version? Any performance gain (1920x1200) or power consumption increase?

It uses 1GB of DDR3 clocked at 875 Mhz, the normal version has 512MB GDDR3 at 1000Mhz.

So, it is important to know if you really need that extra memory.

Kriz wrote: Would you be willing to upload your HIS4670.bin file? I would be interested to see how our BIOS files differ.

There is also a bios database on Techpowerup. There you can download a bios or submit one that is not listed.

http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/inde ... el=HD+4670

Is there a non-passive cooled version of this card that's near silent when idle? According to TechPowerUp, the Powercolor generates less noise in idle and load than the 4670 from HIS. From the review of the HIS: Even though a quiet cooler by Arctic Cooling is used, the card can not achieve the low ...

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Can anyone confirm or deny whether the HIS, Powercolor or MSI cards have editable (down to .9v?) PowerPlay states? I'm going to pull the trigger on one of these cards, and don't want to get stuck with a high-voltage idle mode. Powercolor AX4670 I have the Powercolor 4670 PCS 512. Standard it is 500...