VisionTek HD 4770 Review - PAGE 1

As video cards go, the HD 4770 was a bit of an unusual entry market when it first arrived. Most notably it was the first GPU that featured a new, smaller 40nm manufacturing process. Second, it was only $100 bucks, but featured GDDR5 memory, even while the majority of high-end video cards still get by with GDDR3. Third, there was a bit of mystery when it turned out all the HD 4770's sent out to hardware reviewers for the launch of the new product looked somewhat different that the ones that actually hit the shelves. And finally, the HD 4770 was pretty hard to actually get a hold of. For a while.

Certainly an interesting video card.

Now though, the HD 4770 supplies are abundant. Since our first look at the HD 4770, not too much of has changed -- but a few things have. We thought it would be a good time to take another look at this interesting product.

Today we will be looking at a HD 4770 from VisionTek. With the economy still in a bit of a slump, it's nice to know that for $100 you can pick up a video card that can not only handle games, but handle many of them quite well. But with prices falling on faster GTX 260 and HD 4870 video cards, does the HD 4770 still have what it takes to be a good investment for any gamer in the remainder of 2009?