Customer Reviews

HIS ATI Radeon HD4670 IceQ 1 GB DDR3 VGA/DVI/HDMI AGP Video Card H467Q1GHDAP

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WOW!! What an improvement over my older AGP card (ATI Radion x800xt PE). All my new games can now run with high graphics settings.

The installation of the newest ATI drivers was a bit tricky. I had to use the hotfix 9.8 drivers.

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I am sure that this is only because of how new this card is, and future drivers will work fine. Anyways, this is only the ATI Catalyst drivers; the card works great!!

With the fan on the card venting through the expansion slot, my computer stays nice and cool while running all the games I play. I recommend this card to anyone with only the AGP 8X graphics ability, and the need for a higher graphics capability on par with all but the newest and priciest PCI-E cards. And since it also has an HDMI output, it's probably the best 128-bit AGP 8X card out there.

I purchased this card for my son's AMD Athalon 3000, gigabyte MB, 1G memory, Windows XP Pro. I didn't want to build a new computer so purchased this to hopefully extend the life of the computer another couple of years before a new build.

Nice specs, but very buggy install. Caution, It will take over your system sound if you install the HDMI sound driver, so uncheck the sound driver box on custom install, and disable it in the device manager. Also, ATI udated Catalyst driver 9.8 will not recognize the card. You must install Catalysit Hot fix for Radeon 4000 series cards. Otherwise the HSI indcluded driver will run very slowly.

After any driver install the computer runs extremely slowly and hangs. Force a hard reboot and it will load properly after that.

In summary, nice card, it works very well for the more challenging on-line games, but you must know what you are doing to get it to work and update drivers.

14 Nov. Update to my initial review.
I ended up returning this card. Never worked properly, and yes, at least on my system, it screwed up the existing sound to the point I had to reinstall and uninstall and disable the included sound.

There are better options out there. Do not buy this card.

I bought this card via Amazon and am extremely happy with the results. I'm using it on an older (circa 2001) Tyan S2466 dual processor AMD Athlon MP card, 2.1 Ghz, and AGP 4x. The reports about this video cards' onboard HD sound drivers killing the mobo sound are apparently bogus. The HD drivers are loaded along with the existing drivers and they become primary, but the prior audio device is still there as secondary. Just go into Windows control panel -> sounds and audio devices -> audio tab and select the previous audio device from the 2 drop down lists. You can go back and forth between the new HD audio drivers and any existing audio drivers this way.

The "IDE-Q" cooling system, that blows the GPU heat OUT of the box rather than leaves it in - why don't all video cards do this?? what a great idea - works wonderfully. My GPU temp on this video card is 46C, down from 58C for the old Matrox card. The temperature of both processors in the PC are down about 5 degrees C too not having all that GPU heat left in the box.

The DVI digital video quality is stunning IF YOU USE A VERY GOOD DVI CABLE! 30 years of working with computers here I can tell you from experience that using a double shielded VGA cable (each of the 3 colors individually shielded) made a huge difference on VGA cards and monitors, and that a double shielded DVI cable made a massive difference here in picture (Samsung 24 inch flat screen monitor) vs. the cheapo DVI cable that came with the monitor. Using the cheapo there was lack of sharpness, and the monitor wasn't getting enough signal at times and kept going into standby. Switching to a 10 ft double shielded, gold contact, $20 DVI cable solved it all. Razor sharp picture and no false standy mode. Don't cheap out on the DVI cable after buying this great card!! The DVI cable quality is as important as the card.

And the HDMI output works like a champ, too. That is going to a 42 inch flat screen TV.

I loaded the drivers on CD that came with the card first, worked great. Then loaded the update driver from the HIS site, and almost great. That loaded an additional copy of Visual C++ redistributable that I didn't need causing a conflict (also will try to load .net 2.0 but you can opt out on this one if you already have it installed). After 3 reboots the PC sorted out its I/O memory and all worked great. Nuked the second Visual C++ redistributable in add/remove programs.

Can't say yet if the Avivo DVD/Bluray acceleration works, since I'm having to upgrade to a WinDVD version that supports it. Also can't say anything about gaming performance - I'm not a gamer - bought this card solely to support a future upgrade to Windows 7, get more memory on the card so I could reduce the AGP aperture size (the old 16 MB Matrox required a 256 Mb aperture to keep from locking up the PC, now I'm down to 64 MB), be able to use a DVI instead of VGA cable and get the GPU heat out of the box directly.

Bought this card on the 1/11/2010 received it through prime on 1/13/2010. Nothing but serious problems with install of drivers bundled with GC, went and downloaded hot fix 9.8 and 9.12 but nothing worked left request for help at HIS support on the 1/15/2010. Today is 1/27/2010 still no response by their tech support. My system Windows XP 32 Home, Asus A7N8X-X, XP 3200+, 2GB PC3200. uninstalled my previuos drivers for 9700 pro and used drive sweeper, reinstalled Nforce drivers for the motherboard, then installed the 4670 drivers and it freezes when window loads. Thank God Amazon has a great return policy. It was retruned for full credit. Beware of HIS products

The HIS ATI Radeon HD4670 installed easily in my older Dell Precision 530. I had an old Wild Cat III (which cost $1500 in 2003) from 3D Labs in it when I purchased the Dell. I simply uninstalled the old WildCat drivers, swapped the old video card for the new one, restarted the Dell, installed the ATI drivers (from the accompanying CD) and voila! it worked like a charm.

I then downloaded the latest ATI drivers and installed those on top of the CD-supplied drivers. This also worked flawlessly.

I had no problems with the ATI audio drivers taking over my audio and funneling it down an HDMI out. The option is there in the Sound control panel, but for my purposes I don't use it. My audio out stayed the same as it was originally and was never changed by the ATI drivers.

Now I can run the latest versions of MAYA, Soft XSI and Lightwave, plus watch BluRay discs on my old Dell Precision! I was also able to use my ColorMunki to adjust the color profile for the HD4670 card and the result is gorgeous and accurate color on my two 24 inch LaCie 10-bit monitors.

I'm sure that the problems other users experienced with installing this card had more to do with the internal design of their PCs than the HIS ATI Radeon HD4670 card per se. Given my experience I can completely recommend this card for older, higher-end, Dells.

Gives a couple more years of life to my aging 2002 Dimension 8300. It runs an incredible 40 degrees celsius cooler (not even joking) than my previous upgrade, a GEForce 6800, did at both idling and intense gameplay. It never goes above 53 degrees celsius even playing Champions Online. However, I don't think 32 bit systems are capable of taking full advantage of the onboard RAM and without a decent processor you may not notice that much of an increase in actual performance. It was only after a combination of upgrading my processor from 2.3ghz to 3.4ghz that it really shined. The fan is quiet, and my small room is a lot cooler without the 6800 melting my case.

I had some reservations about ordering this card based on other reviews where users had problems with the drivers, but decided to give it a go anyway. I had no problems at all installing the card, or the drivers. I initially installed the drivers from the CD, then went to the ATI site and downloaded the hotfix, which also installed with no problems. The card works great, and is quiet. I was using a Radeon X850 prior to this card, and found it annoying to listen to the fan on the card speed up and slow down all the time. The fan on this card runs at a constant speed and is quieter.

Big upgrade from my ati x1300 512 MB card. Overclocking is simple with the software which is included. runs down of war 2. A must buy for anyone with a agp setup. This is the fastest agp card ever made.

I have an "old" PC that uses AGP 8X. I was really amazed that I could find a Graphics card that has some up to date features. And at at a reasonavle price. This card performs extremely well, is quiet and cool plus gives a great picture.
Now I can get a couple more years out of my PC.
The only drawback is it two slots wide so make sure it will fit in your PC case.
You need at least a 400 Watt Power Supply to operate this card.

This was a significant upgrade from my nvidia 6800 ultra. This card will likely be the last, best AGP card I'll purchase.