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Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): Lifetime
Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): Lifetime
Pros: This is probably the best bang for your buck videocard on the market right now, for $200 you buy yourself max settings at 1080p in almost any game outside of Crysis (Which runs at 25-35fps on high at 1080p, very playable)
In my mind, what your getting here is 85-90% of the performance of a 5850, for 66% of the price. Bittech.net ranks it as the best value card out there, I completely agree.
Also, runs fairly cool, I have my own user defined fan settings, but I've never seen it over 80C, which is pretty decent for a high end card.
Also its a decent overclocker, most sight reviews said they got their cores over 950Mhz and memory to 1.1+, I'm sure they got *special* cards though, I can only attain a more modest 900/1000. Still thats about 2 or 3 extra fps in games for the price of $0.00 :)
Cons: Isn't the fastest card out there, is a power hog compared to the 5xxx series ATI cards (Only reason I would consider opting for the $100 more 5850 right now, seeing as how DX11 hasn't made an impact yet)
Other Thoughts: Best bang for your buck graphics on the market right now, should be very capable for at least a year.
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Garbage Brand
Reviewed By: Luke on 2/6/2010
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Pretty box.
Cons: This card ran amazingly hot from the moment I put it in my system. All other temps in my case max out at 70C (under 100% loads for times measured in days + hours). This card shoots straight to 80+C in every game, no matter what, and promptly fails. (I managed to get almost one hour of STO gameplay out of the card with *minimum* video settings.) Monitored voltages are always within 5% tolerances (no overclocking).
XFX support is garbage by the way, and the "double manufacturer lifetime warranty" means nothing. Why would I say that? Here is why: I went through the hassle of registering the card, creating a user account, and writing ~2000 words worth of explanation in a new support ticket to XFX. I have not received *any* response from XFX after a week, and when I checked their site (which I did every day during that week), my ticket was conveniently "not there anymore". If the warranty is the deciding factor for your own purchase, save the hassle and just buy another brand.
Other Thoughts: Since the warranty is obviously useless, I'll be voiding my warranty myself to attempt repair of manufacturer idiocy. I have a hunch the thermal paste between the GPU and the heatsink is faulty, as many other people have reported that problem with XFX HD4800 cards, and because of the jaw-dropping rate at which this card goes from warm to near-boiling.
To be fair to ATI, when the card is not boiling hot, it runs like a monster (high fps with max settings on every game I own at 2048x1152). ATI's driver support seems to be getting better since the X1900 I owned a couple years back. It is too bad the drivers drivers can't make up for ATI allowing their products to be built by clearly inferior manufacturers.
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Nice Card
Reviewed By: PhatAdam on 2/5/2010
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Great bang for the buck Fast card Runs all my games on high settings I can't hear it
Cons: Wish I had two
Other Thoughts: I bought this to replace my GTS 250. What a huge difference. I can now run all my games on high settings with AA and AF enabled. Played Battlefield Bad Company 2 beta on all high setting with 4X AA and AF at 1680X1050 very smoothly.
Specs - ASUS M4A77D mobo, AMD Athlon II X4 630 OCed to 3.2, 4 GB Crucial RAM, Two 500 GB hard drives, LG DVD Burner, ATI HD 4890
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Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
