ASUS Radeon HD 4830 DirectX 10.1 EAH4830/HTDP/512MD3 512MB 256-Bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: Displays 80 to 100 Fps in BF2142 for single player mode with all quality settings maxed out at 1440x900 resolution. Picture quality is noticeably "crisper" compared to my previous 8800GT card using High Quality settings in both card's software control panels.

Cons: Fan is a bit loud but bearable. I ran ATI's Auto-tune overclocking utility and it locked up my system. It then repeated lockup every time it restarted my PC until I reverted to a Restore point (in safe mode) before the installtion... run Auto-tune at your own risk!

Overall Review: Replaced an 8800GT with this card and am very pleased with the 4830's improved picture quality at similar to slightly higher frame rates. Runs a bit warm in my mediocre ventilated case at 71C under 100% load. Tested at 10,500 3DMark06 using overclocked E4300 CPU at 3.0 Ghz.

Pros: Extremely high tech currently for the price. This is the best video card you can get for the money right now. -Amazing fan covers all important components and disperses heat good -major improvement in a benchmark test over a X1650 to the system as a whole. -640 stream processors cannot be beat by any Nvidia product anywhere near this price which greatly boosts complete system speed even when not gaming

Cons: no real cons so far, instruction manual is absolute garbage if you dont know what your doing, completely generic.

Overall Review: I read a review from a previous poster that this thing was big, and while I believed it I didnt imagine exactly how big it was. I put this in a relatively wide case (achilles gaming tower) and had a lot of trouble, had to move a lot of wires out of the way so anyone with multiple harddrives or PCI hardware might have trouble with this. Overall amazing card for a good price, if your looking for an upgrade for a casual gaming machine you can't go wrong here.

Pros: Cheap crossfire setup that will out will outperform all but the most expensive single cards from ati and nvida, very nice over clock 700/2150 on both cards with zero artifacts

Cons: they can run warm, but after further reading around the web most all 4800's run warmer compared to 3800 card's, there just made that way, so not really any cons

Overall Review: Was 2 4830's or 1 4870, since most all new games have there crossfire problems fixed, I’m very glad I bought 2 of these. Some web reviews have crossfire 4830's beating a gtx280 in a few games, and those are the are slower 4830's from an other company. And compared with a 4870, crossfire 4830’s will get a 29.5% performance boost on 3DMark Vantage on Extreme setting, so spend the same or less with buying 2 of these and destroy a 4870, best bang for buck you will find

Pros: Worked fine for 3 months.

Cons: Fan died after 3 months. Since I used the rebate and the box no longer has a UPC code, I can't return it for replacement and ASUS just says "see your reseller". Fan is a bad design...read all the problems it had with both the ASUS 4830 and 4670, and don't plan on any help from ASUS.

Overall Review: That's the last rebate I send in...I didn't realize that by using the rebate I was forfeiting my warranty. Rebates are the perfect way for manufacturers to get out of warranty responsiblities.

Pros: price. powerful - running cs:s and tf:2 at max with e7200 and 1920x1200 resolution. overall happy with purchase.

Cons: fan is loud but is expected with powerful cards.

Overall Review: the fan started acting up one day, so i gave asus a call and they sent me a new fan/heatsink. i'm glad they handled my issue well, although, my customer service rep seemed a little new. i just needed the fan, but they sent the whole cooling unit. thanks asus. would buy from again.

Pros: The card works fine and takes pretty much everything that I throw at it. Has been stable so far for a couple months. Crysis on high detail, Fallout 3 maxed out etc. Resolution at 1440x900.

Cons: First.. I bought this card almost 3 months ago and I STILL have no recieved the rebates for it. I checked online at www.status-now.com and what do you know... the rebate isn't even there. Sort of makes me not trust Asus with their rebates because it seems as if they're just using it as a way to sell their products, hoping that the buyer will just forget about the rebate... Another issue would be the fan. It keeps the card cool, but after awhile the fan starts to catch onto the heatsink and makes alot of noise.

Overall Review: I want my $20...

Pros: Great card, haven't had any problems with it so far after 2.5 months of running it pretty hard.

Cons: Sent the rebate stuff in 2 months ago, haven't received anything from Asus. I read on these reviews/forums that it happens a lot, which makes me think that these so called "rebates"are just a con to get you to buy their products. Beware!

Pros: Relatively quiet, runs great, no problems so far. I've had it for about a month and a half, works superbly. Runs Left 4 Dead no problem with everything run to the top. Slowed down a bit on Fear 2 though, but still runs great on medium settings.

Cons: It wasn't free? :p

Overall Review: Installed card, ran driver disk, went straight in. I'm usually an NVidia guy, but I would change to ATI based on this card.