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ASUS EAH4850/HTDI/512M Desktop Graphics / Video Cards
Customer Reviews for ASUS EAH4850/HTDI/512M Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card - Retail
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Radix
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
9/21/2009 3:35:22 PM

Rating + 3 Runs Hot and above average fan noise


Pros: Cost is the big plus. CrossFire support. I have 2 units in CrossFire and am vary happy with performance. Come with PCI-E power plug adapter.

Cons: The cards runs vary hot and seems to have comparatively insufficient cooling when put next to other 4850 models. Some versions ship with earlier BIOS revisions that do not support CrossFire well and also has the GPU to high for its heat-sink and fan which results in instability.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat low
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
9/15/2009 8:21:18 PM

Rating + 5 nice vid card


Pros: i just got this video card, runs really fast, good buy

Cons: none so far

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bogdanello
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/16/2009 12:00:03 AM

Rating + 5 great overclocker, runs cool


Pros: runs cool, i don't know why people say the claciator is bad (asus heatsink for the card.)
i overclocked to 715, but can go much farther.
memory overclocked to 1099, 2198 effective.
stays at 48 room temp ( live in california, so my room temp is like 30-35)
at full load the fan runs at 36% speed, because the temp never goes above 60, hovers in the mid 50's( 54-56 )(overclocked)
barely touches the 50's not overclocked.
not too big, but still a dual slot.
new egg was great.
comes with all adapters( dvi-vga,s-video to RGB, dvi to hdmi, molex to 6 pin pci,)
runs crysis warhead on enthusaist if overclocked to 730(20-30)fps,
it it can go beyound a stock 4870, but not close to an overclocked one. runs cod waw on highest settings on crazy resolutions, at above 60 fps ( CRAZY )

Cons: reqires a bit more power, the most in its processing power to power consumption.
dual slot(not really a con, just a fact)

Other Thoughts: i would of went for the 4870, but im getting a phenom II quad 3.0 and some gaming ddr 3, and a new mother board, so im not woried about video, these cards change price, and preformance rapidly, i bet when ati comes out with their next generation these will be like 70$ and the 4870 will be a 90-100, and the 4890 will go for like 120, so im not going to be happy with a 4890 that will lose its price in 3 months( could of waited syndrome)

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Warren
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/12/2009 7:17:29 AM

Rating + 5 Very good buy


Pros: VERY fast video card. I can run WoW at highest settings at 1680x1050 @ 50-60fps (ok, there's some lag in extremely high pop areas, but that's mostly my internet). Battlefield 2, and Battlefield 2142 @ max quality settings, at same resolution, runs perfectly! Doesn't run too terribly hot. It comes with a massive heat sink on it to get rid of heat.

Cons: The card is HUGE! Look at the video card's picture here, and compare the PCI-E slot in the pic to a pic of a slot on a motherboard. This is a monster! I had to move my hard drives around in the bays to make room to install it. Still, it ran too hot with limited cooling of my case. I had to order a new full tower case with 7 120mm fans in it to get rid of the heat from my OC'd Q6600, this video card, and 4 HDDs. (granted, the OC'd and the HDDs are my fault, not the video cards.)

Other Thoughts: I don't know what everyone is complaining about heat for. This card runs at about 48 C idle, and I've NEVER seen it go higher than about 65 C (according to CPUID hardware monitor), not even after hours of gaming. And my card is overclocked to 725 MHz core, 1044 MHz memory, and it's STILL not getting too hot. I've had it up to full 800 MHz core (highest CCC would let me), and 1100 MHz memory, and it passed video card stability test for 4 hours, max temp seen was 68 C. (I didn't want to wear it out too quickly, so I moved the clock speeds down after that test to stated above).

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SaberKing
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/8/2009 10:48:16 AM

Rating + 5 Dreams Can Come True


Pros: I know we all feel that graphics cards have to be expensive to be good, but shopping online is so much cheaper and you get better stuff than what they sell in stores. I have been running this system now for a week and it has been flawless. Rainbow six vegas. vegas 2, cod4, L4D, Cod5, and crysis all run from roughly 90-100 FPS. Technology is rendered "obsolete" in months, but the fact is, game companies know all of their customers can't afford to buy a new card monthly, this card will probably last me for 3 to 4 years, if i actually wanted it to, and would still play games above 40 FPS probably. enjoy this card.

Cons: Nothing bad about this one, but i get excited whenever Ii'm upgrading and don't read thoroughly at all times, and I almost bought an open box card, NEVER DO THIS!!! they're usually broken cause the previous owner was not smart and didn't ground himself before handling the card.

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Mondoman
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
8/7/2009 6:20:41 PM

Rating + 1 Card works fine, but Asus rebate check bounced!


Pros: The card works well on my e6420/Vista system (mostly BF2), so it's a good value, especially for less than $100.

Cons: ASUS rebate check was returned ("account closed") almost 4 months(!) after I deposited it, so $30 was sucked out of my checking account. Talk about slimy things to do! If ASUS can't even supply the money for their rebate checks, are you going to trust their video cards?

Other Thoughts: ASUS failure to pay their rebate is really disappointing, as I had considered them in the top tier of design and quality of MBs and graphics cards. Time to find somebody else to spend my money with...

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kovboi
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
8/4/2009 2:47:14 PM

Rating + 4 reasonable price for crossfire upgrade


Pros: I got this to upgrade my existing HD 4850 to a crossfireX solution. I also tested the card individually and it works as advertised - nothing special but still a solid card at stock speeds.

Cons: The fan on this thing is LOUD and, even worse, it is a high pitch noise so it sounds like a vacuum cleaner (even at 50% speed). I'm wearing headphones until UPS delivers my AC s1 rev2. Yikes.

Also, there are no heatsinks on the VRMs. The added cost of a new cooler and heatsinks somewhat diminishes the value for your dollar.

Other Thoughts: I'm waiting until DirectX 11 cards come out. Until then, adding this to my previous card is a pleasant and cost-effective upgrade.

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Gleo
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/3/2009 10:17:08 AM

Rating + 3 Tail of Woe


Pros: Price, Worked for most games.

Cons: Issue with world of warcraft, the whole reason I was building the computer for a family member. It gave a #134 error in WOW (can not load various files). Which in the end turned out that this card over reports memory, the issue is on asus forums there is no fix yet. I put this card in my machine and it gave same errors and when I put my 4850 (different brand) back in now it had the same game errors even after reinstall of game and drivers. Only a reformat, fixed issues. So caution if a WOW fan, wait until fixed.

Other Thoughts: Worked fine for L4D, HL2, and other games

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/21/2009 10:21:50 PM

Rating + 4 Fast but hot


Pros: - Very fast
- Low price

Cons: - Gets really hot, not really suitable for SFF cases
- Can get loud if system isn't ventilated properly

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
7/16/2009 12:00:23 AM

Rating + 5 Nice and Cheap


Pros: Looks nice. fan moves lots of air. Has potential. best for price

Cons: seems it runs a little hot and maybe loud because of it.

Other Thoughts: Make your own heatsinks, all you need is a hack saw and some power supply or old NB or SB heats sinks. Also just simply go to a hardware store and get some scrap copper. Many types of thermal adhesives on the market paste and tape. be creative will brings temps down alot.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/15/2009 10:58:44 AM

Rating + 4 Sleeper Card


Pros: Doesn't take up much case room. Fan moves a lot of air.

Cons: Runs very warm, will fill case with heat if not properly vented. 50C. avg, 60C after running video edit, 63C after gaming 15 minutes.

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PodPilot
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
7/11/2009 1:25:05 AM

Rating + 5 Fixing a 4850


Pros: Absolutely solid card, once it's fixed. I play 3 instances of Eve Online simultaneously at high settings.

Cons: None of these 4800 series cards have heatsinks on the VRM's anymore. As they try to lower the price to next to nothing, these heatsinks are disappearing.

Other Thoughts: Used to bluescreen twice a week, and as hotter weather got here started daily. But I do abuse the card (3x games at once - always at least 2x). But the VRM's, which are the little grey cubes - 3 of them in a row and very hot - seemed to me to be TOO hot. A little dremmel work on an old CPU heatsink got me a long, thin heatsink that would fit across all three VRM's at once (on this model) Arctic Silver and a nylon wire tie and wah-lah I have never seen a bluescreen since that moment. For those with no dremmel skilz, just go buy memory chip heatsinks for $8-$10 and stick them to the top with the supplied tape. Anything that will increase the radiation area of these VRM's helps enormously.

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Toleraen
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/7/2008 11:33:47 AM

Rating + 5 Great deal


Pros: Great card for the money. Takes everything I've thrown at it with ease. Single slot design is nice. Upgraded from a 6800, so I couldn't be happier.

Cons: Card runs hot. Real hot. The fan at default speed isn't too noisy, but bumping it up past 50 or 60% and you'll definitely hear it.

Other Thoughts: I've got 4x 120mm and 1x 192mm case fans running in my system. So far there's been enough air cooling through those that I haven't had to bump up the fan speed on the card past 40%, so the noise hasn't been an issue.

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C.M.
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/7/2008 9:58:01 AM

Rating + 5 Great Card


Pros: Thin card, plays all games I play on max settings with no less that 75 FPS. Just ordered second one to run crossfire.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: ASUS M3A79-T, AMD Ath64X2 6400+ (3.20 GHz), 4GB DDR 2 1066, 500GB WD 10,000, 1TB WD 7,500, ABS 900w PSU, 5 tri speed 120mm fans, Antec 900, DVD Multi LS, 2 - EAH4850's

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cdanteek
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/6/2008 8:10:38 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Works out of the box with current ATI drivers, what more could you want.

Cons: none

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Yuri
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/5/2008 10:28:22 AM

Rating + 5 Asus RMA


Pros: I reviewd earlier that my 4850 showed grey dots on the screen and even after reinstalling XP and drivers I had the issue. Bought another card and proved to be this card. Asus RMA was quick and painless. I had a new card within 2 weeks.

Cons: For my other 4850's I had to by a Zalman heatsink fan that kept it quiet and reduced fan noise drastically.

Other Thoughts: I would love to slap a fanless heatpipe on this card for HTPC but worried about excessive heat.

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Corion
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/2/2008 10:16:33 PM

Rating + 4 Great Card, But Hot & Loud Stock Cooling


Pros: The card is very powerful. I can run most games (excluding the beasts like Crysis) at high or very high settings and still get decent FPS. Great performance, no problems so far.

Cons: The card is a very hot card.

You can run the fan faster to cool it down (tweaking it with the SmartDoctor utility), but anything over 45% fan speed got noticeably louder. When playing games I needed to have it at a rather noisy 60% to stabilize the temperature just at about 70 degrees celsius.

It would be nice if the SmartDoctor tool allowed you to tweak fan speeds for different temperatures more precisely, but they let you set different temperature thresholds for pre-programmed fan speeds (increments of 20%) or set a single fan speed.

One downside of this utility is that until the program launches the card's fan will not be turned on. If you leave your computer at the login screen before SmartDoctor runs, the card will heat up.

The card noticeably raises my room temperature, but I guess this is a pro if your house is cold. :0p

Other Thoughts: You're probably going to want a better (more CFM), quieter (fewer dBA) fan.

Make sure you have a power supply that can handle this card. According to the box you need a 450W minimum PSU.

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Rob
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/2/2008 6:47:34 AM

Rating + 5 Pretty good card.


Pros: I upgraded from an ATI HD2600 so I'm pretty happy with the card. With no overclocking, I'm getting 50+ fps running most games with the advanced graphics set on "very high".

Cons: The proprietary software that comes with this video card can interfere with some of your games. The software called GamerOSD would crash "City of Heroes" when it came to the splash log-in screen. The only way to restart the game would be to reinstall the video drivers again.

Other Thoughts: If you're looking for a great card under $200, then this is the card that I would buy...er, I mean, I already bought. I'd get another one to set up the Crossfire; however, I don't have another $190 just to get another 10+ fps increase out of my games. The 50+ fps I'm getting now is great.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/31/2008 9:39:45 AM

Rating + 4 No rebate for me


Pros: Really great graphics card. Runs everything well.

Cons: Fans are louder because it runs hotter.(worth it!)

Other Thoughts: The only issue I have is with Asus rebate program .I never received the rebate. When I called they implied they sent it out and since it was never cashed they cannot issue another check even though I never received rebate and there is no record of rebate check being cashed and they cannot say when it was actually mailed. Lost in the mail or never sent out I will never know, but I am out the rebate on this card. No Asus rebates for me in the future.

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Thepowerofcheese
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
10/30/2008 9:43:55 PM

Rating + 5 Great card for under 150!!!


Pros: Best bang for the buck by far, very slim design, hot cartoon chick on heatsink (haha), Worked flawlessly with new catalyst. Graphics are great with full eye candy on. Does Folding@home(gpu) like a champ!!!!

Cons: Does get very hot!!!! Good thing the new catalyst has fan control on it... Have to run it full time on 80% but I also run Folding@home when I dont game. Fan is very loud past 80%.

Other Thoughts: Im still running outdated cpu, mobo, HD and ram....AMD Athlon 64x2 4200, 2gig Patriot DDR400, ABIT AN8, and 80gig IDE HD. Cant wait to get rid of my bottlenecks to open up this baby up!!!!!!

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Antilulz
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/30/2008 11:23:37 AM

Rating + 5 cards are fine


Pros: Lightning fast in crossfire. Can play crysis on very high, get some bugs when i bring it up to ultra high. Got a score of 18k on 3dmark06 with factory clocks.

Cons: No. biggest problem im having is overclocking the memories. They run at 75c with fans at default but i brought my fans up to 75% and they are running a cool 45-50c 60-70 under load. Back to the overclocking everytime i raise the memories even a slight bit i get one of severable problems. Either when i boot a game my monitor goes blank and i have to restart my comp by holding the power button, 2 the game crashes and the catalyst software comes up saying it had to do a vpu recover and that asking me if i want to send a error report, 3 the computer automatically restarts itself. Also just for your knowledge (readers out there) according to CCC and asus doctor they are never going above 70c while on full load. Finally ATi drivers are somewhat bad, and the official ati site does not have drivers up yet for the 4850's series. When i go to asus and dl the new ones i still get an error when playing FarCry 2 saying that the drivers are too old. IS it maybe because im not using DX10?

Other Thoughts: Great cards for the price. Ati drivers somewhat bad. Overclocking is somewhat troublesome. Or at least very limited. If anyone could helpe me resolve that it would be greatly appreciated. Also did anyone else recieve one card that was quite different (if you ordered 2 on the same shipment from newegg) from the one displayed. One came with a glacier fan and heatsink, no design due to the rather large fan, the box had a slightly different hue to it, and in CCC the smaller card would not allow me to OC as high (E.G. one would let me OC up to 1100 the other to 1300). I contacted neweggand they said they would send me two new ones but i am undecided if i want to go through the hassle or not. Keep in mind while reading this i am not an expert on Ocing and computers. The mobo i am using is a asus rampage formula 2. Great mobo btw. And my email is split-chaos@hotmail.com if you have an suggestions. Thanks

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/29/2008 10:43:46 PM

Rating + 5 Love it!


Pros: Super fast processor....less heat temperature ..compare to my old Nvidia 8600GT. This Asus-8450 Never let me down on Crisys game. plan to buy another card for future cross fire.

Cons: None so far

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
10/27/2008 1:13:15 PM

Rating + 5 Excellent Card


Pros: This card is an outstanding value for the price. I am running everything at high resolutions and max settings with older components. I replaced a GeForce 7600 with this card and Have been blown away by the difference. I am also able to run everything in widescreen at max resolutions. Absolutely Stunning color.

Cons: Card is huge. It barely fit in my Full size ATX case and makes it very hard to get to some of the cable connectors on the mb.

Other Thoughts: I downloaded the current driver from ATI. It has a few extra items such as GPU load meter and extended fan settings.

PC-Asus m2n, Opteron 2.0, 3Gig Corsair Val, Seagate 250Sata, 19 in Hanns G LCD, XP

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LeviM
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/27/2008 11:18:00 AM

Rating + 3 Pretty Good


Pros: Runs crysis pretty well (not perfect) on high settings at 1680 x 1050.

Cons: Randomly I get the BSOD on restarts and windows is saying that it is the graphics card and the drivers with it. Not really sure what to do about it, I have updated the drivers and tried the drivers that came with it and it doesn't help.

Also, there is no program to normally set your fan speed. You have to set it manually every time you want to change it...

Other Thoughts: Maybe if the drivers get better this card will perform to its full capabilities. For the time being it is still a nice card with above average gaming performance, but because of the hassles I am only giving it 3/5 eggs.

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F1McLarenAGR
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/26/2008 7:55:46 PM

Rating + 5 Fast and Cheap!


Pros: -Fast. Runs everything very smoothly on my new setup. Runs Warhead fairly decent and fairly high graphics settings. -Software included allows temperature threshold fan speed settings (ASUS Smart Doctor). Overclocks easily, 700mhz.
-Cheap compared to high end video cards.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: -I have two of these in CrossFire and they abouslutly fly! -With included software runs cool!
-Very nice buy who ever is on the edge of buying this.

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Steve
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/24/2008 8:37:01 AM

Rating + 4 Follow-up 1 month later


Pros: Video card still working great.

Cons: I wanted to let people know about the driver situation for this card. The Catalyst drivers are still not fully supporting this card correctly. GRID especially does not work with any driver except the one included in the CD with this card. So if you need to update your driver to 8.8 or 8.9 forget it. 8.10 drivers just came out and I have not tested this yet, but am not hopeful since the problem seems to be specific to the ASUS 4850 only. GRID will basically drop to 3-4 Fps and then cause a BSOD and reboot your PC if you try anything other than the OEM asus cat drivers.
Also many WS resolutions are missing from the asus driver. Specifically 1366x768 is not available. If you have an older LCD WS monitor that is native 1366x768 forget it. You will not get this resolution to work with the OEM drivers.

Other Thoughts: I don't want to turn anyone off from this card. It is VERY good and runs everything wonderfully. But ATI needs to produce updated driver support with these issues fixed soon (these ARE their bread and butter cards now).
It's still a great card and I would still buy it again. (and still might for some crossfire yumminess.)

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Phenomfan
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/23/2008 9:44:17 AM

Rating + 5 Great card, no drawbacks, even heats the house


Pros: Purchased this card to run on the below system. It is a great card. Can run anything I throw at it with few exceptions. Cannot beat the value, especially if you take into consideration all of neweggs discounts that are available.

Cons: Runs hot, nothing a little fan tinkering cannot fix. Not as powerful as I would have liked so I have now crossfired it to increase the power.

Other Thoughts: Phenom 9950 BE @ 2.9 GHz (stable up to 3.2 GHz)
Asus Lion Square Heatsink
ASRock A780GXE
8 GB G-Skillz RAM DDR2-6400 at 667 MHz
Crossfired ASUS and HIS Radeon HD 4850 512 MB
160 GB Hitachi SATA HDD
500 GM Western Digital SATA HDD
Sound Blaster Audigy SE

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crimedogg25
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/23/2008 4:13:14 AM

Rating + 5 Awesomesauce


Pros: What a nice and quiet graphics solution! Eats up Far Cry 2 with my e6600 @ 3.2ghz /w only 3gb of RAM. ITS WHISPER QUIET!

Cons: Being so quiet probably means it isn't cooling like it wants to be cooled. Though mine game with a second generation cooler on it....

Other Thoughts: Huge step up from my x1950, but at a freakin' sweet price /w rebate!

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Victor
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
10/22/2008 1:13:04 PM

Rating + 3 Fair copy of the 4850


Pros: 4850 chipset is a good choice. Runs Crysis with E8500, P5Q Pro, 600W PSU, and 4GB DDR2 at 1600x1200 (no AA) with "high" settings very smoothly. Runs COD4 and pretty much everything else at 1600x1200 2-4x AA wonderfully. Great price/performance, but same can be said about any 4850.
Automatically regulates fan speed with temperature so it stays pretty quiet until you fire up a 3D game. =

Cons: Asus's Smartdoctor software crashes my PC immediately if I try to change clockspeed. If I use Catalyst Control Center I can change clock.
Card is NOT detected by by EPU-6 software that came with my Asus P5Q Pro. WHY? EAH4850 is on the compatible list! Disappointing, because it would be nice to have EPU-6 regulate clock speed way down when I'm sitting on the desktop to save power and keep the system cool and quiet. I'm stuck with just running 625/1986.
Reference heatsink and fan setup is borderline. Runs very hot even just on desktop (48C+) and blazing in games (75C+). Fan at full speed (~80C) gets very loud! Luckily most of the time lots of loud explosions in my games cover it up. Kinda wish I got one with a dual-height heatsink fan. Not confident fan will last a long time.

Other Thoughts: I ordered an "open box" model, no real issues with that, as described only came with bare card but I expected and accepted that. I've got boxes of DVI cables and DVI/VGA adapters collected over the years. I don't really care about overclocking, but Smartdoctor and EPU-6 software issues are very disappointing.
I would only recommend this exact model if you can get a good deal on it (like open box deal I got). It really is perfectly acceptable as is, but for the same money get one with a better cooler.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/21/2008 9:15:02 PM

Rating + 5 HOT HOT HOT!


Pros: Best performance per dollar. The bundled fan control software was ok. Stable to 675MHz core for me.

Cons: The fan is annoyingly loud if i keep the card below 60c when the ambient temperature is above 21c

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blahblahblah
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/19/2008 10:04:45 PM

Rating + 2 very serious heating issues


Pros: Improved my fps in most games by a large amount over my geforce 6600.

Cons: Very hot, I read all the reviews here before buying the card, so I knew it would run hot, but the reviews didnt stress how hot it really gets, I have the fans set to 85% at all times, it idles at 57c, during gameplay of any newer game it runs around 72c, if it ever goes over 75c, it slows down to the point of being unplayable and often crashes/becomes unstable. I had to actually underclock the card in order to play games with it.
I kind of feel cheated here, I wouldnt have bought the card if I had known that you HAVE to buy aftermarket cooling in order to use it, I would have just bought another card.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/17/2008 2:48:59 PM

Rating + 5 Excellent Card


Pros: An amazing card for it's price range.

Crysis can run at ultra-high settings with AA set to x4 and get around 28 FPS, blows every other game out of the water.

This amount of power+ the price makes this a great investment for people who want a powerful gaming rig, but dont want to drop a couple of hundred dollars on a new video card.

Cons: It gets a little hot, peaks at 74* for me at stock fan speeds.

Other Thoughts: This card will easily handle Fallout 3, Far Cry 2, WoW WOTLK, and any other game coming out in the future.

I can see myself having this card for at least three years before I even have to think about replacing it

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DennisC10853
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/16/2008 7:04:47 PM

Rating + 5 Correction Of Previous Review


Pros: It's still a great card but in my previous review I kept referring to a 4870, sorry it's this 4850. I do love it though, playing FarCry and Crysis full out and it's really pretty.

Cons: I wish I could type and not enter the wrong info.

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DennisC10853
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/15/2008 8:40:12 PM

Rating + 5 Koolance Video Heatsink Won't Fit


Pros: The second Asus EAH4850 that I have in my rig was borrowed from a friend and my previous review still holds but this is a totally different version of the same card and everthing but the GPU is moved around. It's still a great card though.

Cons: Won't fit the Koolance VGA heatsink for this new version of the Asus EAH4870.

Other Thoughts: Before I removed the second borrowed EAH4870 I tried to install the Koolance heatsink on this card that I bought from the Egg. Everything but the GPU is moved around and the heatsink won't fit so beware if you are going to water cool! It's ok, I just gave this card from the Egg to my friend to replace the borrowed one and kept the other one in my rig.

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DennisC10853
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/15/2008 4:27:18 PM

Rating + 5 Great Card! Improved!


Pros: This card is really awesome for the price! Runnig two CrossFire and cooling with Koolance water cooling and they run cold and great!
Still playing with OC & tuning so I don't have a firm 3DMark score yet but it's going to be up there.

Cons: The card pictured is not the card that I received. Asus replaced the heatsink with a big open one kinda like a Zalman which I'm sure cools much better so this ain't a con by any means, just the Egg needs to change the image on the site.

Other Thoughts: I wish the Egg would carry more Koolance stuff. Had to buy my rig directly through Koolance. If you are serious and want to water cool Koolance is the way to go, bar none!

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BlackMesaSouth
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/14/2008 8:43:20 PM

Rating + 5 All I need


Pros: Does everything I need. Runs Team Fortress 2 and all other Orange Box games on full everything without any slowdowns. SmartDoctor keeps it under control and it doesn't get loud. Haven't overclocked, not that brave, but I'm told SmartDoctor makes that easy as well.

Cons: So far so good. Worked fine from install.

Other Thoughts: I recommend it for someone building a dcent gaming rig on a budget.

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D Kizz
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
10/14/2008 3:29:59 PM

Rating + 5 Heat is not really a problem here


Pros: Great Card. Runs things well, uses less power than my 8800GTX

Cons: Heat, but you can modify catalyst profiles or just simply use RT v.211 and can up the fan easily, temps fall a lot.

Other Thoughts: If you are having heat issues, do one of the two options mentioned above or just buy a vga cooling fan card that takes up another slot. Cheap and simple solution. I use this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835888112 and it works well. $22 dollars total to deal with heat easily. But just upping the fan on the card works just as well.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/14/2008 12:21:04 PM

Rating + 5 Solid Card


Pros: Powerful card, runs older games absolutely flawlessly (Quake 4, Doom 3, WoW). I haven't tried any newer games other than Warhammer Online with it, and it can handle that with all graphics maxxed out with 60+ fps.

Cons: Can get hot.

Other Thoughts: Q9550 processor, 4gb Crucial ddr2 800 RAM for my machine.

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dallasskins
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/14/2008 8:48:52 AM

Rating + 4 Good card, Never got mir


Pros: Card is great. Play COD4 all settings on high, real smooth game play and now getting higher scores.

Cons: I bought card when i late July and still haven't received my MIR, which I filled out and sent in on time. Just checked status now website and they have no knowledge of my rebate. Feel like I am being robbed of my $30 dollars.

Other Thoughts: I would give card a 5, except not sure if you will get rebate back. No locks, but I don't play Crysis which would tax card harder.

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go
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/12/2008 8:38:56 PM

Rating + 1 how to crash your PC


Pros: runs R6V2 cranked (@1680x1050), did well with Assassin's Creed and Cod4

Cons: the heat this thing generated overwhelms any attempt to cool it. I've got seven fans in a roomy case and still, mid-game, the heat will kill the system and force a restart. (even WITH the ati 4850/4860 fan speed hack!)

Other Thoughts: buy a double-height card, one that's able to evacuate the GPU's heat directly out your PC's backside.

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Jorge
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/11/2008 7:43:20 PM

Rating + 5 Awsome performance for the price


Pros: Bought this card to upgrade my crossfire 939 setup since I don’t want to spend the money on buying a whole new system right now, it has far exceeded my expectations.

Cons: Card runs very hot, but it’s due to having a single slot cooler solution. Fan gets loud when doing the XML fan mod. solved the problem with a Koolance water block.

Other Thoughts: This card replaced 2 X1900 cards in crossfire mode, will be buying another card soon to complete the system.
System specs: Abit AT8 32X mobo, Athlon X2 4200+ 85W edition @ 3.0 Ghz (1.675 Volts), 2GB OCZ Platinum DDR 400 memory (3.00 Volts), Asus HD4850, 700W FSP PSU, 2x 150GB Raptor drives Raid 0, whole system is WC

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Silent Ricochet
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
10/10/2008 10:24:10 PM

Rating + 4 Awesome, but..


Pros: Awesome, just amazing, every game is just a joke to this video card, I'm not even kidding. Runs every game you throw at it on it's maxed out settings. Turn on Edge detect AA and put 2x or 4x MSAA on any game and it looks amazing.

Crysis, of coarse how does it run Crysis? Constant 70-80 FPS on a medley of High and medium settings. Couldn't be happier with this card, it's amazing.

PC Specs:

CPU: AMD Athlong X2 6000+
RAM: 2GB Dual Channel XMS2 Overclocked

Cons: Runs insanely hot, I'm not even kidding. I knew this in advanced from reading reviews, benchmarks and because ATI cards just run really really hot but wow...

This card idled at 77C and I didn't even dare game on it, I bought a Thermaltake DuOrb and now it idles 40C Loads at 53C. Amazing :D

This card also hates the ATI drivers, I have no idea why, but after restarting from installing the drivers, my screen was pushed over to the right and couldn't be fixed without changing the resolution to 1280 x 720 (native 1440 x 900), I reinstalled drivers and restarted, no problems since.

Other Thoughts: Awesome card, bought it used from somewhere else, but definitely a great buy. Tops 9800GTX and 8800 for only $10 - $40+, remember to buy a heatsink for this card, it runs wayyy to hot to be safe.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/9/2008 10:39:37 AM

Rating + 1 Epic Fail


Pros: Newegg's RMA staff did a great job on returns. Finally got my money back after the lemon law.

Cons: Was sent this card 3 times all 3 were DOA. 2 gave me artifacts in games ~20 minutes after playing even after I manaully controlled the fan to peg it at 100% and the third's fan turned off completely when I tried to manually set it to 60%.

Other Thoughts: Asus is usually a reliable brand. I don't know what happened. 3rd card newegg sent me was an OEM. I had ordered a retail version of the card. I was a little disappointed by this.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/9/2008 5:41:47 AM

Rating + 4 Good performance, annoying software.


Pros: Good performance. Very quiet when the fan is on low speed setting.

Cons: The fan does not seem to regulate it's speed automatically. After installing this card, the fan speed saw set to low perminently. It wouldn't matter how hot the card got, the fan would never speed up to cool it down. The only way I could find to get the fan to regulate speed based on temp was by installing the ASUS smartdoctor software that came with the card (and I don't think the software is all that great.)

Other Thoughts: Good performance for the price, but given that you have to install software other than just the base drivers to get the card to cool properly (or I did anyway), I would have bought something else had I known this.

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DennisC10853
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
10/7/2008 7:42:01 PM

Rating + 5 Runs Cool With A Koolance!


Pros: This is a great card! It runs really cool with a Koolance water cooling system! I have this computer insanely overclocked including this card and everything runs cool enough for me! Playing FarCry I've never seen this card get over in the 50'sC. I got the first card as a gift and I just bought another one from the Egg to go Crossfire!

Cons: It does run hot with the stock heat sink. I have a friend that is using the Zalman VF1000 cooler on this card and he is satisfied with the temps. I forgot what he told me the temps were but he is running two of these CrossFire with the Zalmans on them and he's been playing Crysis with no problem. It's just a shame that the stock heat sinks don't keep the card cool enough. I can see where the cards would fail due to high temps.

Other Thoughts: Asus P5Q Pro mobo, Intel E8400 cpu OC'd to 4.5GHz, 4Gig's Corsair Dominator DDR2 1066 ram, dual Asus Radeon HD4850's, Koolance water cooling (CPU, GPU's, NB-SB, MOSFET, memory).

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Pilot
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/7/2008 3:19:51 PM

Rating + 2 Buy Cautiously (second review)


Pros: All around fantastic card for the price, out plays similar Nvidia cards in my opinion, and stays nice and cool with the Smart Doctor software (along with the nice shiny copper heatsinks which most cards don't have with the stock cooling). It is an incredible gaming card and movies look wonderful. However...

Cons: ..this is my second review on this card and it mysteriously died on me a few days ago. Also, I have had some minor problems with the drivers working on Vista 64-bit and ATI support is a pain to go through, almost as bad as Microsoft. ;) I'm not the only one to complain about it dying suddenly or that the drivers were a little flaky on Vista 64-bit.

Other Thoughts: I'm just sharing my opinion that I think others should consider when buying. Perhaps I was just unlucky but this is my first time using an ATI card and I wasn't pleased. Think before you buy.

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LithiumLogica
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/7/2008 1:24:51 PM

Rating + 4 Great card, but the sound!


Pros: Fantastic gaming card, runs all settings maxed out with great fps on COD4 multiplayer at 1680x1050. This is a huge step up from my 8600gt.

Cons: The sound it makes upon starting up. This horrible, nasty, noise that makes anyone standing in the same room do a double-take when I turn the computer on. It's almost like an extremely high speed fan rubbing on a small piece of plastic, but there is no obstruction. It fades out in a few seconds, and comes back for a two or three second burst about a minute later, then goes away again. I have no idea what's causing it, but I assume it's the fan. What I don't know(yes I have done the fan fix in the profiles to cool my card better) is how to make that noise stop. I also can't find any info anywhere else of anyone else having the same trouble, so I'm not sure whether or not I need to RMA. And yes, the noise is -painful- to hear. I typically leave the room until a few minutes after booting up.

Other Thoughts: No hdmi output, which would be nice, instead of another dvi out, but that's not enough to take a star. Crysis has some strange behavior, but I haven't really tinkered with it much.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/7/2008 11:25:56 AM

Rating + 2 ... Ehh


Pros: Worked well for 2 days

Cons: Not same as picture Represents... And died after 2 days use.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/7/2008 8:37:26 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Works great. Quiet.

Cons: ATI's Drivers stink.

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Yuri
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/7/2008 6:05:29 AM

Rating + 2 its ok


Pros: Very powerful, winter is coming and this will warm up my computer/office room. Comes with the HDMI connector whch some manuf leave out. Nice bundle of software and presentation. Box could be smaller.

Cons: Very, very hot even in a Silverstone towercase with the wind tunnel and several fans, the heat output is ridiculous. After 3 months, I started seeing gray dots an dlines on the video during post and when I tell XP to go into VGA/safe mode it does not recognize the card. I reinstalled XP, installed newer drivers and swapped out the heatsink..this is being RMA'd. First time RMA'ing to Asus after buying lots of their products...lets see what their support is like....

Other Thoughts: I had to buy another 4850 and hoping to get this RMA'd.

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not happy
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/6/2008 4:44:36 PM

Rating + 1 idiots


Pros: im sure it would work great, never installed

Cons: THIS CARD IS NOT THE REFERENCE DESIGN. ASUS DECIDED TO ATTACH THEIR STUPID "GLADIATOR HEATSINK" MAKING THIS A DUAL HEIGHT CARD. INSTANT RMA BECAUSE NEWEGG LIED TO ME WITH THEIR PICTURE

Other Thoughts: well newegg messed up, so these are getting rma'd and micr0center is getting my business. I cant use these because i specifically needed single slot cards, or i'd have just got 4870's, cost wasnt an issue here.

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whiteninja
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/6/2008 6:41:29 AM

Rating + 5 Bang for your buck


Pros: Very fast card for the money and a definite improvement over my old x1950xt. Quieter than my older card too due to the cooler (see below). Did not have to do any xml editing or configuring of fan speeds. Played Crysis Warhead on gamer for several hours with no hiccups or problems. Also plays pretty much any other modern game on all high settings.

Cons: No pretty lady on the cooler:(

Other Thoughts: For some reason the card I got had a different cooler than the one pictured. I got the same one featured in the TOP version (didnt know about that one at the time of purchase) At first I was kinda weary but after installing it seem be very quiet and reliable (I dont overclock so temps arnt too big a deal with me)

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Pancakes
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/5/2008 7:27:34 PM

Rating + 5 Great Card


Pros: Runs everything I throw at it on highest settings (8x Anti-aliasing, high resolutions (1440 x 900), 16x anisotropic filtering, settings on highest possilbe) with good frames per second. Crysis Warhead, Stalker Clear Sky, Team Fortress 2 (and all Source games), and Call of Duty 4 all run great.

Despite what other have said, this card is very quiet. I haven't had any cooling problems either (idles at 42 degrees C, full load at about 50 degrees C).

Mail-In-Rebate, free shipping.

Cons: None so far. Performs better than expected.

Other Thoughts: CPU- Intel Dual Core e8400 3GHz
Case- Antec 900
4gb DDR2 800 RAM
ASUS motherboard

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Strategic Planner
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/5/2008 12:53:46 PM

Rating + 5 Lots of power and heat - Uses little energy and space


Pros: Uses little energy and space. Best for crossfire since it doesn't take up more than 2 slots. I have 2 of these in crossfire and it uses close to the same amount of energy as my old 8800 GTX. Also, the price/performance and efficiency is unbeatable when compared to higher end single card configurations.

Cons: It does generate a lot of heat with a small turbine fan that dumps the heat back into the case. That's the tradeoff of having a single slot card.

Other Thoughts: You can use ASUS SmartDoctor to increase the fan speed to balance the heat/noise tolerance levels. I have my fan speed set to 21% at 75C and 60% at 85%. Idle temp is about 71C and about upper 70's during load.

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Elunah
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/4/2008 10:25:24 PM

Rating + 2 Great value = CHEAP CARD


Pros: This card is probably the best value you can get right now if you're willing to go to this price range, and two 4850s are very hard to beat, even compared to the flagship nVidia cards. It includes support for HDMI (including audio). The outside of the card is aesthetically pleasing.

Cons: There's a fine line between a "good value" and "shoddy riffraff", and this crosses into the less admirable category. Don't be fooled--the card doesn't just "run hot." Even with the (buggy) fan controller software, at full speed, it both sounds like a jet engine and runs at 70 degrees during some games. That is completely unacceptable, especially because it's so hot that it affects my CPU cooling. I would be scared to think of what kind of cooling would be necessary if you wanted to CrossFire these.

Other Thoughts: Also, the drivers and utilities are completely slipshod. Catalyst Control Center is one of the most poorly written programs I've ever seen. On a Q9450 at IDLE, it takes 40% CPU and upwards of 500 megs of RAM sometimes. The utilities bundled with it are riddled with annoyances, poor programming, and bugs. Bottom line: best value, but poor quality.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/3/2008 2:44:17 PM

Rating + 5 Great Card!


Pros: The card went in without any trouble. It is a single slot card. The updated drivers allow you to vary the fan speed to whatever percentage of full speed that you want to. Also you can set benchmarks to automatically increase the fan speed as the card heats up. thats what I have it set on.

Cons: People say that it runs hot, but I have not had any problems with it. The fan is a little noisy when it ramps its speed up, but I don't mind that. For some it may be a con.

Other Thoughts: Runs Crysis and CoD4 without a problem. I Just built this computer about a month ago and it has been running flawlessly since. The card installed without any problems and the updated drivers worked fine. I have it overclocked a little at GPU 608 MHz and Memory 1024 Mhz. It runs without any problems.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/3/2008 10:23:43 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Excellent for gaming. It has nice program to test overclock until it works, and save setting. If it shows error, it reduce overclock and it's nice feature to prevent future overheating.

Cons: May not be better than GeForce 9800 GTX, but it's close enough. Truth is it's worth for low income people.

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Ben
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/3/2008 9:44:47 AM

Rating + 4 Great Product


Pros: For the cost of this product and the performance it puts out, its easily the best buy i've ever had on a graphics card. It will put out Crysis at 1920x1080 at high settings with reasonable frames. With two its runs everything maxed out in it with once again bearable frames. The smart doctor utility is a life saver. Was originally running at around 80C under load, but if you bump the fan speed to 60% it kicks down to 50-60 under load. Compared to my friends 4870, there's no noticeable differance in performance (i switched my card with his for a session)

Cons: Card runs hot. Fan is clearly inadequate. Gamer Osd is worthless. Doesn't like ATI drivers. But that could be my system as a whole, it really doesn't like updated drivers.
Ordered two had to RMA one immediately.
Newegg was excellent about this.

Other Thoughts: Abit IX38 quad gt
8 gigs ddr2 1066 ocz reaper
q6600 oc'd 3.0
dual 4850's

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Saint Systems
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/2/2008 3:58:21 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Great card, great 3DMark scores on it for a budget system.

Cons: Runs decently hot without fanfix. With fanfix.. very cool for a video card.

Other Thoughts: almost 9000 3DMark overall score with this card, an E7200, and 4gigs of DDR2 800 RAM. A+

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linuxgnome
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/2/2008 11:53:05 AM

Rating + 1 Poor Cooling and design


Pros: Its a single slot card

Cons: Its a a single slot card. I ordered this card on 9/3/08 and ended up RMA'in it back for a replacement due to graphic anomalies and the super heated temp it was putting out. I received my replacement card and bam not even a day and my computer starts crashing VPU errors and I even turned up the gpu fan to 100% just to lower the temps below 70c idle(and my system has great air flow cpu stays at 20c idle 28c load 6000+) So this time I returned for refund.

Other Thoughts: Single slot cards suck if u do buy one buy a aftermarket cooler to replace the poor cooloing it has now.

Case:Raidmax Ares
Case cooling, intake and out 120mm 133.3 cfm fan
Cpu: AMD 6000+ BE, AC Freezer 64 cooler
Ram: OCZ Platinum 4gigs
GPU: nvidia 8600gts(till i find a better ati card)
MOBO: DFI LANPARTY DK 790FX

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Grundy
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/2/2008 7:09:19 AM

Rating + 5 Great bang for buck


Pros: Great card, easy overclocking. Haven't tried Crossfire with it yet, but hopefully soon. Not loud at all (at default fan speed).

Cons: None...

Other Thoughts: Default fan speed is little low for the heat this card puts out.
Simple google search will show you how to edit the fan speed and make a higher default. I increased mine to about 50% and it lowered the temp by 15 degrees.

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Mr.Big²
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/2/2008 5:53:27 AM

Rating + 5 Great Card


Pros: This is a great card, can play everything on high settings no problem. Easy overclocker, have not yet pushed it as hard as I will, but I haven't really needed to push it. I don't see any hesitation in games like crysis. All smooth play on high settings.

Cons: I dislike the default fan speeds, the fan does not even begin to turn on until the gpu is up to 70C then goes to 100% fan speed at 105C, causing the card to idle at about 65C. You can either control it with software or flash the bios on it. I went ahead and took the dangerous route and flashed the bios so the fan is at 30% at 30C and will reach 100% fanspeed at 100C. During crysis it settles in at about 70C with a current gpu speed of 675mhz and 1010mhz memory (2020mhz effective speed). With the modded fan speed the card idle's at around 40C. If you just use software control and set it to a manual 60% fanspeed i found it to idle at about 38C. Atleast on mine you cannot really hear the fan until about 65% to 70%, past that it sounds like someone is vacuuming inside my case.

Other Thoughts: I did not save the link to the page but I saw a review of cards for price vs. frames per second reached in games this card was the least expensive. (Great performance for the price).
Again: Very happy with this purchase, If you want a card to play good games and don't want to spend tons of money this is a great card.

[E8400@4.05GHz(1800mhz FSB), OCZ DDR2-800@DDR2-900, GA-EP45-DS3L, ASUS HD4850]

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Kozue
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/1/2008 5:05:08 PM

Rating + 5 Very nice card


Pros: cheap and powerful, run Sacred 2 all high with 4AA @ 40-50 fps. shorter than 9800gtx+, fits my pc case

Cons: little bit hot but after install ASUS SmartDoctor and set the fan speed at 45%, idle @ 65 C, acceptable for me.

Other Thoughts: None

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Meatrocket
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/1/2008 12:02:43 PM

Rating + 5 ROCKS!


Pros: This card is really impressive for the money. I don't think I could've gotten a better deal. I've owned 2 ATI cards in the past and have always been pleased. My nVidia cards weren't bad per se, just not quite as good.

Cons: The fan is very loud if you don't control it with software. The drivers sent with the card and the ones downloaded from Asus's website (8.53) crashed Vista. I ended up installing the latest base driver (8.9) directly from ATI/AMD and it worked fine.

Other Thoughts: Intel Q9550/2GB OCZ Reaper DDR3/Asus 4850HD/Gigabyte EP45T-DS3R
I ordered my parts Tuesday afternoon @ 1:00PM and received them the next morning @ 9:30AM - and I only paid for 2nd day shipping. NEWEGG ROCKS

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/30/2008 10:20:19 AM

Rating + 5 Hot card, in more ways than one


Pros: One of the best values on the market.

Cons: Poor cooling at default speed, head-splitting noise at higher fan speeds.

Other Thoughts: I run these cards in CrossfireX and love the drastic improvement in framerate when I play games, including Crysis and World in Conflict. If you don't mind having to fiddle with fan speeds or turning up the speakers whenever you play a game (to drown out the screeching fans), then these cards are great. If the rest of your case is well-cooled, and you don't mind the noise, then temperatures shouldn't be a problem.

On a side note, Linux support is bad. I can't have Compiz desktop effects on while watching a movie, or else the movie will be choppy. Because few people who are interested in this card use Linux, I didn't count this against it.

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Vince
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/29/2008 6:52:24 AM

Rating + 5 Loud fan!


Pros: Great quality. I purchased a 22" lcd to go along with this in a new PC build. Very good image quality out of this card. Installed without a problem. Little warm without the fan fix(the fan runs at 30% without it).

Cons: When I installed the fan fix, anything above ~55% fan speed the fan gets LOUD. I have an antec 900 case, with 5 fans in the case, plus the power supply, and this is without a doubt the loudest thing in my case.

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rcsaz
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/27/2008 11:03:39 PM

Rating + 3 Only has 1 HMDI port


Pros: Includes the smartfan utilitity to control fan speed.

Cons: The box says "EAH4850 HDMI". But, it does not tell you that it will only do HDMI on a single port. Also you can only do HDMI (audio + video) using their proprietary dongle.

Other Thoughts: Why couldn't ATI add support at the software level to allow us to use those nice DVI to HDMI cables we have already purchased? The pins are all there and the cable is plugged into an HDMI device on the far side, but the ATI card will advertise itself as a "DVI port" unless you have their dongle (and they do not provide two dongles.)

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/27/2008 9:18:52 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: I really like the card it helps alot with my 3D rendering, and is good for games.

Cons: I do not see any except for the Asus utility saying i need to dend the card in for repair since it runs to hot

Other Thoughts: i think it is a pretty good cards, and can run some games on Max setttings

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Bob
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/26/2008 7:55:08 PM

Rating + 2 This card has teething problems


Pros: Price/performance is excellent. Asus SmartDoctor is a must have for the HD4850. It's smart fan management solves the heat problem. Mine runs at 60 degrees even during hard gameplay.

Cons: The card will overheat when displaying a simple EGA screen, such as your PC bios. the fan appears to be running fast enough, yet the card overheats. Weird. In gameplay, the card will occasionally display a pop-up window "VPU Recover has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphics driver commands". Upgrading to latest driver did not resolve this.

Other Thoughts: I cannot recommend a HD4850 card until these teething problems are worked out. I am also dissapointed that despite its fantastic results in online reviews, my experience is the card has not measurably improved gaming performance over the 9600GT it replaced in my system (running a Wolfdale 3.0 GHZ, 2G RAM, Windows XP Pro) on COD4. I will probably RMA this and go back to the more stable 9600GT.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/26/2008 3:56:10 PM

Rating + 4 Shipped Wrong Card


Pros: I guess it cools better with this heatsink?

Cons: They shipped me the wrong card! The one they shipped me is UPC: 61083903749 which is NOT eligible for the rebate!

Other Thoughts: The card they shipped me is the ASUS 4850 with the "Glaciator Fansink". This one will take up 2 PCI slots not 1.

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Forte
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/26/2008 7:49:32 AM

Rating + 5 Powerful Graphic Card


Pros: It gives me great performance to my Samsung 22 inch Monitor and it gives awesome graphics. It does not run hot for me ( probably I got a lot of fans ).

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Its big :O

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/25/2008 4:26:05 PM

Rating + 5 Midrange in name only


Pros: This card is the best midrange card I've ever owned. Runs everything I thow at it, including Crysis. It's hard to believe that ATI's midrange card can actually go toe-to-toe with the Geforce 9800 GTX and occasionally surpass it!

Cons: As everyone else says, it runs hot. It's also a pretty big card, comparatively.

Other Thoughts: Best card I've ever owned; I refuse to buy high-range cards because they're too expensive. That said, I feel like I've purchased a high-end card with this Radeon HD 4850.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/25/2008 11:45:35 AM

Rating + 4 Not Eligible for Rebate


Pros: Fast enough for the games I play plus HDMI with 7.1 audio.

Cons: The card currently shipping is not exactly the one listed on Newegg. The unit that was delivered was model EAH4850/HTDI/512M/A, UPC 610839037490 which is not eligible for the rebate. The item listed is EAH4850/HTDI/512M. It has the Asus heatsink instead of the standard one, which is okay but it does not have a memory cooler. It is claimed to be cooler than the ATI standard heatsink but I do not have one to compare.

Other Thoughts: I never buy anything expecting the rebate but it should not be listed with a rebate if it does not really have one. It is not worth the effort for me to ship the card back for a rebate that I may never receive anyway.

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Doctor Jinxed
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/25/2008 11:09:08 AM

Rating + 5 Beats my x850 At Least


Pros: Great looking card, and thus far, it's delivered great performance where asked. I'm finally able to play all the games I've been struggling with, and even better so, at maxed settings @ 1680x1050 (UT3, Oblivion, NFS Pro Street are a few). It's easy on the power consumption as well since this, a quad core and 4 large hard drives don't have issues with my weak 500watt PSU.

Cons: The fan is absolutely silent up to 30%, from 40% to 50% it's audible but not bad, but any higher than that and it sounds like a hair dryer. When I first booted up with it and the fan spun up for a second, I almost thought my computer had a blow off valve or something.

Other Thoughts: I don't see what all the issue is with people being unable to control their fans. ASUS has a SmartDoctor utility that comes with the card that lets you control all the settings.

Only thing I wasn't satisfied with from my order was that it came with Alone in the Dark. I mean, of all the games it could have come with...

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BobVila
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/25/2008 3:28:32 AM

Rating + 3


Pros: Cost effect solution that provides quality results on most platforms. Has a software based fan control?

Cons: Poor driver support for XP x64, the card runs hotter then I'd like but is still in the "safe" range, experiencing random reboots not due to heat. No response from ASUS about the issue but seems rampant based on forum postings, the card hates the catalyst control center period. Also, the fan is ridiculously loud for how little heat it dissipates.

Other Thoughts: I might have to go to vista ultimate because of this card... That saddens my very much.

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Sma
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/25/2008 12:43:03 AM

Rating + 5 Impressive


Pros: Plays all my games silky smooth at 1600x1200. Right now the 4850 offers the best price/performance point for most people's needs. Rebate DID come (eventually)! Asus's software lets you easily control fan speeds. Excessively nice packaging.

Cons: Hot and can be somewhat noisy when the fan is over 60%.

Other Thoughts: This card for under one and a half bills is a great deal!

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Remedy
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/24/2008 4:57:16 PM

Rating + 4 Decent card, but same as the rest


Pros: Excellent card for the money. Almost as powerful as my old 8800GTX while significantly smaller and quieter. I have not done the testing yet, but considering I am running 2 of these on the same PSU that struggled to keep my 8800GTX running, they must used considerably less power.

These two cards in crossfire cost me less than my nvidia card did when I bought it, and it would seem that they blow it out of the water.

Cons: Not sure this is a con, but this card is absolutely identical to another brand which I purchased at a lower price. I realize that Asus is a better name, but this is the same exact card down to each and every resistor or solder joint. Only thing that's changed is the sticker on the HSF.

That said, it's not the newest or best, but the 4870s cost about twice as much.

These cards also run hot and had to "fan hack" (modify an xml form with a word processor) to get them to behave properly. That is not something I expect to have to do with new tech.

Other Thoughts: Running 2 of these in crossfire mode, and still have room and power for one more (maybe even an X2). After applying the "fan hack" (to each fan in the XML form) I have the cards set to 40%, and they are not audible over my 3 glacialtech 120mm fans and arctic freezer 7. Second quietest machine I've ever built.

Temps run in the low 50s at idle now, which is more than adequate for video cards. Only thing I'm unsure of is how the "fan hack" will operate while gaming, as I haven't done much more than test out some games thus far.

Build - PCPower&Cooling 750 watt psu, Asus 780GX, 8 gigs ocz 1000, Phenom 9950 (Oc'd to 3.0), and 2 of these 4850s. 5.9 and then some in every category in vista ultimate 64.

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Xandu
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/24/2008 12:19:04 PM

Rating + 4 Good Card


Pros: Good card. Plays games beautifully.

Cons: Just like everyone says, it runs hot. Look up that fanfix.

Other Thoughts: I think this is more a problem with ATI drivers rather than the video card, but I can't play Battlestations Midway on this card. I read on some forums that there is something wrong with the CCC and this game. Actually if anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/24/2008 9:39:07 AM

Rating + 4 good card


Pros: powerful card

Cons: runs hot, im using antec 300 case with 2 intake and 3 outtake fans , the card is longer than what i thought

Other Thoughts: run games w/ high settings

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jd58904
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
9/23/2008 6:52:38 PM

Rating + 5 Great card, but HOT


Pros: I havent had any issues with this card, i plugged it in, installed the latest driver from ATI, and it works fine. It can handle anything i throw at it (runs Bioshock and CoD4 beautifully), but is iffy on Crysis (20 fps on high settings, but runs super smooth on medium). I hope to get a second one soon so i can run crossfire, hopefully this will boost my fps in Crysis. Overall i am very happy with it.

Cons: It gets HOT!!! Seriously, if you get it, put your hand near it and youll feel like you just put your hand on the surface of the sun. So make sure you have adequate ventilation.

Other Thoughts: As long as you have the ventilation and the drivers it works great. Also: Get riva tuner or an equivalent program so you can boost the fan speed. For some reason the fan on the card is only running at 25% by default. I took mine up to 75% (you have to find a balance between having it quiet, and having it at a low temperature). Otherwise, you should have no problems as long as you have compatible components. My system specs are as follows: Asus P5Q Pro motherboard, Intel E8400 3.0Ghz, OCZ GameXstream 700W PSU, Asus EAH4850 graphics card (obviously), Western Digital Caviar 640Gb hard drive, LiteOn 20X DVD Burner.

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acewildwolf13
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/23/2008 8:45:01 AM

Rating + 5 Amazing


Pros: Absolutely kills most games that I throw at it. With the exception of Crysis. Can handle alot of the extras like AA and AF better than anything Nvidia offers. Glad I waited for the card to come out rather than buying the now wimpy in comparison 8800 GTS 512mb

Cons: Runs a little hot and is the loudest part of my computer. Bought when the card first came out and now with price drops and MIR I could have saved $70.

Other Thoughts: The ASUS version was the best choice IMO because of smart doctor and the great rebate that comes with it. Will probably pick up another one later this year.

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Quiksilversurfr
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/23/2008 8:39:43 AM

Rating + 5 Excellent


Pros: Excellent speeds and even better in xfire. Singlet slot. Awesome price and superior shipping speed.

Cons: Runs hot out of the box but not a big deal. Idled at 80c. Removed heatsink and applied Artic Silver and did the "fan fix". Running fan at 40% and idles at 40c and 55c load in a cramped Micro ATX setup. Not bad at all.

Other Thoughts: 2 are better then one :)

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William
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/22/2008 3:14:17 PM

Rating + 5 Amazing Card =]


Pros: It is a very good vard and it runs COD4 on complete max with over 90 FPS online......Amazing well worth it....You will be one satisfied customer i can guarentee that =]

Cons: It runs hot when you get it, but it runs 50C idle on my pc right now......jus do the fan fix...

Other Thoughts: Im running a
E7200 2.5 ghz
Gigabyte Micro ATX mobo
OCZ 2GB Ram
250GB HD
500w Power Supply (more than enough)
19" Hanns-G LCD

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Max Awesome
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/22/2008 2:22:46 PM

Rating + 4 What is happening to Newegg?


Pros: I don't play bleeding edge games, but this was a significant upgrade over my GeForce 7900GS (which goes without saying). Very fast card.

Cons: Card runs extremely hot, and if you use Smart Doctor....well let's just say that I hope you like listening to a hair dryer.

Other Thoughts: This is not to do with the card, but Newegg itself:

Newegg ships this card with Alone in the Dark game. I unbox, pop the disc in my DVD drive (F:), and my AV software pops up:

The Win32/Adclicker.JO was detected in F:\SETUP.EXE.
Machine: <comp_name>-PC, User: <comp_name>-PC\Administrator.
File Status: Infected

Second, when I purchased, the rebate was advertised as 40 bucks off, when in fact it is only 30. Now I see that in 2 weeks time, they have dropped the price another 30 bucks. If I could do it over, I would have gone to Fry's. At least there they guarantee the price for 30 days.

The card gets 4/5 due to heat and noise. Newegg...man...you guys dropped the ball on this one. 1/5 for Newegg on this one.

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k1stunr
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/21/2008 2:34:08 PM

Rating + 4 Good card


Pros: Good card have had no problems since updating to catalyst 8.8 and can play all recent games on good resolutions and with settings on high yes even crisis.

Cons: Gets hot if you dont run asus smart doctor and up the fan speed then it runs at medium temp but is a little loud so i guess its either hot or loud the choice is yours.

Other Thoughts: i spent some time in the smart doctor messing with the smart cooling settings until i got some settings i like. usually runs about 55c-60c on idle and is nice and quite, when i play games well thats another story the fan is loud but i have it overclocked to 690mhz core and 1113mhz ram have no artifacts and its staying under 90c plan on buying another one in a few months to run in xfire.

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SoL1D
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/21/2008 1:05:00 PM

Rating + 5 Good midrange card


Pros: Great performance, games run just fine. And the free Alone in the dark game was the hook that reeled me in to this one.

Cons: none so far

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jcfarris
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/19/2008 11:52:22 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Deffinately one of the best cards Ive owned!! This card runs everything I can throw at it on max settings. Runs Devil May Cry 4 at a constant 70fps or higher(maxing at about 180fps wow!), Mass effect runs smooth at 65 or higher. I havent gotten to try out Crysis Yet but would imagine it runs great on this card. All of these stats were tested by Fraps

Cons: This card does run extremely hot. It idles around 54 degrees celcius, although when I run games at max settings it never does go above 68 degrees usually. It does come with software to help control the fan pretty well which helps keep it cool(somewhat).

Other Thoughts: System Components: Asus P5Q MB | Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale | 8 GB G-Skill DDR2 800 | Asus ATI Radeon 4850 | Rosewill RX950 Crossfire/SLI 950w Power Supply | Zalman CNPS9700 LED 110mm CPU Cooler | 2 Segate Barracuda 7200 500GB HD= 1TB | 1 WD raptor 10000 RPM 320 HD | All hooked up to a Samsung Syncmaster T240 ToC 24" monitor 1920x1200

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Sandboy76
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/19/2008 9:49:31 AM

Rating + 5 Great card, Great price


Pros: Great card, runs all my games beautifully. It was a great upgrade from my 6 year old, old video card. I liked the price tag as well!

Cons: It does run hot, and it is annoying that ATI does not allow you to change the idle fan speed....without editing a catylist profile and disabling the automatic adjustment function for the fan. It idles at 9%, should idle at around 30-40% to keep the temps down. I hope they make the fan adjustment available in the future.

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Matt
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/19/2008 2:00:20 AM

Rating + 2 let dowm


Pros: they look pretty!

Cons: they both arrived doa. ordered 2 to throw them in a new rig with crossfire, and while the rest of the computer POST's, i get no video.

Other Thoughts: gonna try again!

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Stbradle
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/18/2008 8:41:42 AM

Rating + 4 Very Powerful, Hot also


Pros: After playing Oblivion on highest settings I can travel very well without any lagging. Graphics are beautiful on the right monitor.

Cons: The heat generated is substantial as otehr reviewers stated. This is due to the form factor and colling solution of course. Save space, but more heat. My card runs normal around 55C, but under full load I can see it heats up to about 67C. I am not concerned, however. The fan is super loud when above setting 4 on the Doctor software.

Other Thoughts: Overall, I think that the rebate makes this a great deal

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" The Natural"
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/18/2008 6:56:52 AM

Rating + 2 What a let down


Pros: Card looks good.

Cons: Firs off,

When I got this card I could not get past post. I had to update my bios on my MoBo to get the card to go past post.. I read all the reviews and I thought well since I have an Asus MoBo, why not??
That was my first mistake

2nd: mistake was thinking the Asus drivers would work.

Let me tell you I installed the smart doctor and the other gaming software from asus and the machine would reboot it self after 4 min. So I uninstalled the gaming software and the machine wouldn’t reboot anymore but EVERY time I would boot my machine, it would say “ Windows XP is ready to install new hardware” EVERY time. I did get the smart doctor to work and was able to control the fan speed that bought the temp down from 69c to 44c.

The worst part was when I went to play World of Warcraft. I would get only 33FPS!!! What the heck did I pay 180 bucks for? I had an ATI x1650 pro ( 3 year old card) and it got 50 to 60 FPS in shatt, 33fps with many things on the screen. Why is my x1650 out per

Other Thoughts: i will try a couple more things but so far it doesnt look good for this card. keep in-mind i was getting alot more FPS on a 3 year old card than this.

rig:
Asus pw5 DH deluxe
Core 2 Duo 2.1
4 gigs of ddr2 800
320gig and 500 gig 16mb sata
Windows XP 32bit with sp3

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/18/2008 12:07:40 AM

Rating + 4 Great but with its drawbacks


Pros: This card can take many of the modern games today at high resolution with absolutely no problems at all.

Cons: The card gets extremely hot and very loud. I am using a P182 and it is the loudest piece of hardware in the case.

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Waterppk
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/17/2008 10:37:23 AM

Rating + 2 Nuked 2 MBs


Pros: Effective MB nuker?

Cons: This card nuked 2 Asrock P45 MB's. They would never post. I did succeed in getting the second MB to post with a PCI card, I switched it to PCIe in the BIOS and rebooted to nothing. I tried a 8800GT afterwards and still nothing. RMA'd the MB's and ASUS 4850 for a HIS 4850 and a x48 Asrock and haven't had any trouble since.

Other Thoughts: It looks like I might just be unlucky and have gotten the only bad card, but YMMV.

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Steve
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/17/2008 7:52:34 AM

Rating + 4 Some like it hot!


Pros: Performance is outstanding. Seriously. Runs everything I throw at it on max settings without any framerate issues. Period. I'm very glad to see ATI regaining some marketshare and putting out a good product again.

Cons: The stock cooling is a joke. stock idle: 61C full load: 82C
ATI drivers keep stock fan at 31% until 100C?? Who decided that?

Other Thoughts: If you keep stock cooler google the fan fix to get the fan up to at least 50%.
I'm running with an accels1 cooler and get 41/52C.
Just be warned... the accels1 is not designed for this card and will require you to come up with your own HS for 4 voltage regulator chips that the cooler doesn't include.

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Franz
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/16/2008 2:27:56 PM

Rating + 5 Excellent Card


Pros: Great card, runs everything Ive tried on high settings. Its pretty long, but I have a small case and it fit fine in it.

Cons: None yet.

Other Thoughts: If you use the fan software that comes with the card, it wont run hot!

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tehleetage
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/16/2008 6:11:53 AM

Rating + 3 HOT


Pros: So far no pros to list before it started overheating and crashing my system with VPU Recoveries I was able to 3dMark06 it with a score of 10830

Cons: The card runs so hot you can't even touch it to take it out of your case. On top of that I had to RMA my first card due to being defective. Crashing games and constant Graphic anomalies. Maybe due to overheating. Can't even think about overclocking it when idle temps hover around 80c, and I have excellent air flow through my case.

Other Thoughts: I did RMA for the same product so I am hoping this card doesn't have the same heat issue and it works. I am buying an aftermarket cooling device this time as well.

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Josh
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/15/2008 8:54:27 AM

Rating + 5 4850 Great Card


Pros: Runs games fantastic. I'm running resolutions < 1600, and I run cod4 maxed with fps in the 90s and 100s. It's a better card for the money, but if a 4870 ever dips to 200, that might be worth it. Use the asus smartdoctor tool to control fan speeds. It may be ridiculously loud, but my idle temps are 50 and load never go above 78. Need good airflow of course to prevent ur case from turning into a furnace.

Cons: Of course, the card runs hot and stock fan is loud as can be when running 65% or more. But it keeps your warranty valid if you keep stock. I have Zalman VF900cu from old card, but didn't install just b/c it doesnt heat up as much as my 7600 gt did, after I used smartdoctor that is. after a year passes, and there is no warranty anyway, I'll probably use my Zalman, eh why not?

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shaker
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/15/2008 6:51:11 AM

Rating + 5 Very Good Value


Pros: Smooth Performer, Low Power Consumption, Single Slot, HDMI (with included adapter), Good Price

Cons: Card is LOOOng (9 1/4 inches); I had to remove the CPU fan baffle in my Shuttle SN 25P to fit 'er in. (I fashioned a cardboard substitute, which works fine.)

Fan is inadequate for overclocking; stock speed allows 80-90deg C GPU temp

Other Thoughts: After running the ATI "Auto-Tune" utility from the CCC, it selected 690 GPU/ 1250 MEM -- these settings would not even allow 3dMark 05 to load (It's a great "litmus test" for video card stability). I eventually got 675/1100 to be "glitch-free"; 05 score 10.700 on sn25P AMD x2 3200 2G Mem 'DozeXP. I installed the included ASUS "Smart Doctor" utility, and have been fiddling with the "Smart Cooling" settings to try to find settings that don't cycle the fan between "low" (quiet) and "high" (dustbuster) - but since it's a single-slot cooler, some noise is inevitable.
-- I wanted to wait for the 4870 to come down a bit, but was a bit worried that my Shuttle's PSU might not be enough to power the card (my last card was an ATI 850XT, which fit and worked fine).
Runs HL2 EP2 smooth, I think that Crysis, Bioshock, and other DX9 games should run well at medium res with decent quality settings.

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Bermuda
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/14/2008 10:32:49 PM

Rating + 1 Drivers Kill this Card


Pros: Relatively Cheap

Cons: I should have stayed with Nvidia. I have been fighting with this card for 2 months and cannot get the bugs worked out of these drivers on Vista 64. I haven't seen this many blue screens since I stopped using windows 95. I read tons of great reviews before buying, but apparently the x64 drivers are still flaky. Catalyst control center is the biggest piece of doodoo ever released. I'd like like to rant more, but I need to buy a new card tonight and fleabay this card.

Other Thoughts: System Specs:
Western Digital Raptor 150GB
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB
Asus ATI 4850
LIAN LI Lancool PC-K10B
Mushkin DDR2 800 (2x2GB)
Gigabyte x48-ds4
Antec Truepower 2 450Watt
Vista x64

I have built quite alot of computers and this video card is the worst experience that i have had. I'm so disappointed that I'm about to write the BBB.

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Alex
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
9/13/2008 7:48:14 PM

Rating + 3 Gigabyte Mobo with this card = no bueno


Pros: Runs games well, mostly; Haven't tested Crysis because of installation problems

Cons: Huge Driver issues; Crossfire still not working with the Gigabyte board;

if you have any questions about getting it to work, shoot me an email: mrclean.durrant@gmail.com

Other Thoughts: My friend bought this card for his machine, and he had one of his "tech" friends install it for him; They couldn't get it to work. I came over and took a look, and did multiple tests including the following (each suggestion consists of Uninstalling drivers, booting up, reinstalling, restarting)

- Tried using one card in Primary PCIe slot = Freeze up; BSoD; Automatic Restart
- Put DVI and VGA connector on = booted up?
- Tried Using Crossfire = freeze up; BSoD; Automatic Restart;
- Tried Using other card in primary PCIe slot = freeze up; BSoD; Automatic restart;
***- Put card in secondary PCIe slot (as specified by the BIOS) = Worked perfectly fine; no issues even with DVI;***

- Tried using Crossfire with primay card in Secondary slot = BSoD;

Seems Gigabyte secondary slot works, but not with Crossfire? Still looking into that.

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