Awesome bang for the buck
(Once prices get settled and stuff)

First ATI card I"ve seriously lusted after in a good while. I've just got a problem with that cooler they stuck on it. The reference cooler was much more impressive, and it seems like ATI could have gotten away with a single slot cooler on these anyway.

im curious how well the 1gb version wil lscale with higher resolutions compared to the 512 meg card....bus width should have its say...too

I reckon it'll be completely useless , unless you use two of these cards in CF , then there probably will be some difference at higher resolutions in more demanding games .

From what I see it just competes with the 8800GTS 512(priced about 60 cents more where I buy my graphics cards) or 9800GTX price and performance wise.

you think so because of the 128 bit bus? i wouldnt be so sure that only crossfire would benefit.increase the clocks and wonder , even on a single card :)..i heard rumours of this card for a while, they seem to be true(for once). nvidia is supposed to 'fight back' but itll take a good 3-4 months or more till a cheap killer comes around the block from the green side, i hear people say...

I think so because of the performance of a single card - 1GB on this thing is useless , unless you put it in CF , where the 1GB of vRAM would actually be used . For a single HD 4770 , 512MB is more than enough .
The only cards , that actually benefit from 1GB of vRAM are the HD 4890 and GTX280/258 and the dual GPU cards ( HD 4870 X2 and GTX295 , the latter being severely limited by the 892 MB of vRAM at high resolutions and massive amounts of AA ) .
The 128 bit memory bus is more than enough with GDDR5 memory .

Aye, it is indeed. I'm thinking it's memory setup is a fair part of how they keep it so nicely priced.

this hd4770 is a hot Item... here in cebu philippines its a rare Item.. you need to order if from the main suppliers in manila... and guess waht... they will not release it in cebu..unless if all the last year nvidia and ati rpducts are sold GRRRRRR

I got xfx but heared the Asus HD4770 is better. From what I've seen and heared sounds to be a good alrounder up with 250 gts but for 70 squid cool.

I could say that this is the most unique GPU in ATI and its a new thingy that released on 2009! the only R740 chip in Radeon 512mb is better than 1gb under performance and if u choose 1gb u just want to have quality...i know that radeon kicks a lot than GeForce...peace