SAPPHIRE 100245HDMI Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card - Retail

Excellent

Reviewed By: Smoky on 2/7/2010

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: price

Cons: Heatsink has a metal face on it and sticks way out, if this surface touches the back of a second card in crossfire it wouldnt be pretty. I would not suggest this card for crossfire because of the thickness of the heatsink fan, it might work but a paper thin gap between a metal plate grounding out the solder joints on the back of my second card would worry me.

Other Thoughts: Good card works fine, heatsink works good, cools memory too. Would not recommend for crossfire since there are so many cards with thinner heatsinks out there.

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Best Card for money Maxed out crysis

Reviewed By: DarkKnightsm on 2/5/2010

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: less than 1 day

Pros: Wow. Thats all I gotta say. I have done my research on this card. I compared it to all nvidia's sub-100 dollar cards, and the 4670 and this card has got to be the best. Because It maxed out crysis on playable frame rates. HOWEVER the resolution was 1024 x 768. I beleive I also turned on the anti aliasing, But I dont remeber. I just did a small test. Of course this video card might lose performance once I turn up the resolution to 1366 x 768 but I have the confidence that it will still be able to max crysis. I will keep that updated.

For some reason I did not have to disable my onboard chipset. This card is truely a plug n play card. Although I think My video settings were set to auto Which would explain

Cons: As far installation. It was a pretty good. This card was bigger then I expected. My case is kind of on the smaller end of mid tower cases. That said, I had to move my harddrive to a lower slot to make room for the video card. Which is fine by me. But others it may cause a problem

I also noticed, as everyone else did, that this card was noisy. My computer is fairly loud. And this card was the most dominate of the noises coming out. However that is not a problem for me. If louder means that it runs better, cooler, and at 100% then I will take louder. But it may cause a problem for those trying to create a quite build.

Another thing that I have read is the overheating. I have yet to see it for myself but I beleive I might run into this problem soon or a later. So you might want to be prepared to get an aftermarket fan

Other Thoughts: I give this Card a 5 because it meets my needs and expectations. Actually I had expected that this card would not be able to max crysis. And it proved me wrong. It plays beautiful. Along with the other computer parts I built. This is my first build and a hUGE upgrade from a sh ity 1. 7ghz sempron. This card played great. Runs ok. And was great for the money. ATI, you got yourself a new fan. I doubt I will be buying from Nvidia unless they offer this same performance at the price.

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Reviewed By: on 2/4/2010

Tech Level: average - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Very fast, relatively quiet. HDMI output.

Cons: Takes up two slots.

Other Thoughts: Handily beats my gf's Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB. Amazing the performance that can be hand for under a c-note nowadays.

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