Advantages: good performance, keeps relatively cool Disadvantages: it's not the 5770
Well, when building my gaming rig a year ago I came across a problem, I needed a graphics card and only had £100 to spend... The 4870 was still £150 and I saw one of these going on an auction site just under budget, "nice" I thought and bought it.
The Catalyst drivers were pretty easy to install (though I had to update to the latest version to get a second desktop running, and ATi's catalyst program isn't recommended for those that are new to computing)
It arrived and worked, but got extremely hot (by the time I'd got all the other equopment It was out of it's 30 days' warranty), I ran it with my case side open and found that the fan never span on it (Turns out the motor had burnt out from some idiot overclocking it) so I fitted a third party cooler and she runs like a dream now.
I can watch full HD on a 32" TV I have, and have a 2nd ...
Advantages: high performance Disadvantages: dual slot solution
I wear sapphire Radeon HD4850 does not have symptoms that are less satisfying just need a place more than one slot for the installation for the conditioner for graphics processors is greater than the factory recommendation. Viewed in terms of performance sapphire radeon HD4850 does not disappoint because it has a high-end GPU AMD RV770 which has the stream processors to reach 800 units so that when used on large or resolution 1280 x 1024 pixels does not occur, which means the barriers to a game or graphics application. in terms of the assumption of power Sapphira Radeon HD4850 has a 55 nm technology, so the assumption is relatively low power so that stability in the GPU performance of loading data and the GPU temperature is relatively stable ...
Advantages: Solid performance for price, great display driver utility, multi-gpu capable, HD looks amazing Disadvantages: Sometimes, display driver shows that core temp gets high, but hey I am constantly pushing the card
For as long as I can remember I have been an NVIDIA/GEFORCE customer. Many years ago I did try an ATI card but I was very disappointed with its performance, and that was when I decided to shut the door on ATI graphics. Since then, I had upgraded my graphics card to a Geforce 6800, 7800, 8600, and most recently the 8800 GT. Being an avid gaming enthusiast, I was very pleased with the 8800 GT and it was only by sheer bad luck (looking back it was a blessing in disguise) that I ended up upgrading to the ATI HD4850. One stormy night I had a terrible power surge, and found my computer dead, with a fried psu, mobo, cpu, and graphics card. So I had to rebuild my computer, and started shopping around for a new card. Being a prudent and careful shopper, I did some research on new cards and found some benchmark tests that compared ...
Product Information for "PowerColor HD 4850 PCS" »
General
MPN
AX4850 1GBD3-PH, 47125050 23120, AX4850 512MD3-PH
Device Type
Graphics adapter
Enclosure Type
Plug-in card
Interface Type
PCI Express 2.0 x16
Processor / memory
Graphics Processor / Vendor
ATI Radeon HD 4850
Clock Speed
675 MHz, 665 MHz, 625 MHz
RAMDAC Clock Speed
400 MHz
Video Memory Installed
1 GB, 512 MB
Technology
GDDR4 SDRAM 256-bit, GDDR3 SDRAM 256-bit
Memory Clock Speed
2.2 GHz, 1.986 GHz
Features
Avivo HD Technology, integrated HD Audio controller, ATI CrossFireX Technology, ATI PowerPlay technology
Video output
Max Resolution (external)
2560 x 1600
Max Resolution Details
DVI: 2560 x 1600 / VGA: 2048 x 1536
API Supported
OpenGL 2.0, DirectX 10.1
Max Monitors Supported
2
TV Interface
HDTV out
Analogue Video Format
S-Video
Digital Video Standard
Digital Visual Interface (DVI), High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), Digital Visual Interface (DVI)
HDCP compatible
Yes
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces
2 x DVI-I (dual link) - 29 pin combined DVI
2 x VGA - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15) ( with adapter )
1 x HDMI output - 19 pin HDMI Type A ( with adapter )
1 x S-video output
1 x HDTV output ( on supplied cable )
Compatible Slots
1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16
Miscellaneous
Cables Included
1 x DVI-VGA adapter
1 x S-Video - HDTV cable
1 x HDMI-DVI adapter
1 x CrossFire internal bridge, 1 x DVI-VGA adapter
Software / system requirements
Software Included
Drivers & Utilities, Cyberlink PowerDVD , Reallusion iClone2 SE, Driver
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Listed on Ciao since
04/08/2009
Manufacturer's product description
956 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface 256-bit GDDR4 MicrosoftR DirectXR 10.1 support Unified Superscalar Shader architecture 128-bit floating point precision for all operations Dynamic geometry acceleration Anti-aliasing features Texture filtering features OpenGL 2.0 support ATI Avivo HD video and display platform ATI PowerPlay technology ATI CrossFireX Multi-GPU technology
