Tear-Down of Rare ATi HD 4870 X2 Prototype & History

Sponsor: ID-Cooling Frozn A720 Black on Amazon https://geni.us/VDnou4Y A viewer sold us his rare Engineering Sample AMD ATi HD 4870 X2 (RV770 / RV700 codename GPUs) to give us a unique insight into a past era. The launch of this GPU marked an upset for NVIDIA, when AMD's pressure -- as widely reported by Anandtech and Tech Report of the time -- caused NVIDIA to drop prices; however, this also preceded the 2008 financial crisis, putting AMD in a tricky position so soon after its ATi acquisition. Although we struggled to get the engineering sample to fully function beyond booting, we used the opportunity to dismantle it, look at the hardware, and talk history. Grab the GN Modmat we used in this tear-down! https://store.gamersnexus.net/products/large-modmat-gn15-anniversary Watch our tear-down of the NVIDIA prototype 4090 Ti cooler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyliMCnrANI The best way to support our work is through our store: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: http://www.patreon.com/gamersnexus TIMESTAMPS ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: http://www.twitter.com/gamersnexus f: http://www.facebook.com/gamersnexus w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/ Our policies, processes, and ethics statements relating to review samples, advertising, travel, errors, and more are transparently and publicly available on this page: https://gamers.nexus/ethics-statements Steve Burke: Host, Writing Mike Gaglione: Camera Tim Phetdara: Editing Tannen Williams: Writing, Testing