Sapphire RADEON HD 4850 > Reviews (3)

I bought this product at launch and it is the most stable and reliable graphics card i have ever purchased. It has a stupid ammount of graphical power for the price.
It runs all the latest games at ease, all at the highest graphic settings and with the 8xAA turned on to give everything on screen super smooth edges.

From my personal experience i know that this product when on Crysis runs at 25 fps Which is great for a graphics card at this price.
It runs fallout 3 at over 100fps, no lag at all for graphics.
Even games currently out for the xbox and ps3, it can run graphics slightly better than they can process...

But to make it even better the crossfire setup that comes with this series of Ati cards will let you stick another card next to it to double the performance and graphical quality.

With a crossfire setup on a 4850 you can run every game currently out smoothly, and maybe even run all the games coming out at the start of next year.
The best bit about a crossfire setup is that it is cheeper than buying one top of the range card. 2 of these can benchmark the same as a £300 nvidia card, when 2 of these would cost you around £160.

The installation is easy to do too, it just slides in the appropriate slot, connect it to the power supply via the supplied cable and it installs itself when your computer next turns on.

The only problem i have found is it gets fairly hot, nothing it cant handle but at max load it does get to around 80 degrees, on a good point though it can run at 80 degrees and still run as stable and smooth as ever.
It is also fairly bulky so you have to make sure you have a large tower and not a mini tower.

The fan on it is also next to silent so it doesnt disturb your gaming.

This also works perfectly on Windows Vista and Windows 7, everything runs smoothly, full appearence settings never ran better.

This is the perfect product for a average gamer or just a general Pc user.

I HIGHLY recommend this product to ANYONE!