The Palit Revolution 700 Deluxe is certainly a very interesting graphics card. It is the first consumer graphics card to come with a triple slot cooling solution. This approach promises lower temperatures, less fan noise and potentially better overclocking potential. Palit's card can deliver in all those three points. Even though the card comes overclocked out of the box, we saw an extra 10% overclocking left on both graphics processors and 20% on the memory. This makes me believe that AMD had a say in what the maximum operating frequencies of the shipping product would be. I would also like to mention that despite its looks, the weight of the card is only 100 grams more (10%) than the HD 4870 X2 reference design.

One major drawback of this card is its huge power consumption in idle. Compared to the AMD HD 4870 X2 reference design, the card draws an extra 80 W in idle. With all the "green computing" efforts going on today, this could be a big issue for some users. Other than that Palit's implementation is flawless, the only other limitations are caused by AMD's dual-GPU design. For example, CrossFire does not work in windowed 3D at all. Also CrossFire performance depends largely on ATI's support to add CrossFire profiles for existing games.

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