Palit Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB Video Card Review

Palit’s Packaging & Accessories

The box of the Palit HD4870 X2 is much the same as many other of their products with a fair bit of “bling” and the usual Terminator Frog mascot. You will notice that Palit’s packaging usually has red accents if it contains an ATI card and green if it has an Nvidia card within.


Other than the usual driver CD and instruction manual (not pictured) Palit packages a TV-out connector, a DVI to VGA dongle and the usual DVI to HDMI adaptor with their card. Since the HD4870 X2 needs an 8-pin PCI-E cable to run properly, Palit packages an adaptor which combines together a pair of standard 6-pin connectors into a single 8-pin. However, if you do not have enough PCI-E connectors to hook up this connector plus the additional 6-pin on the card, you should seriously think about buying another power supply.


The DVI to HDMI adaptor is now standard on all ATI-based cards and uses the X2’s DVI connector to output high definition sound and video images through a HDMI cable. A HDMI cable is not included but if you decide to go this route, it is highly recommended that you go with a suitably high quality cable.