PowerColor Radeon HD 4830 DirectX 10.1 AX4830 512MD3-H 512MB 256-Bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: Man it makes my ASUS M3A78-T shine! I was pleasently surprised coming from Nivdia cards. AND my last being a MSI 8800GTX (G92) and this card runs right with it , if not passes it in everythng i do and i do push hard! Very happy! With Rebate total cost will be 99 bucks! got it on the weekend special. Going to get another even if i pay a little more now, for sure run in CF and that should hold me over on upgrades V card wise for a year, did i say? oh yea 41c to 44c load! overclocked. Those temps are great! what a load off knowing the card runs cool and you can up the fan speed in ATI Overdrive as well as Overclock. I did load ATI Overdrive lastest CCC version. Forget the CD get the lastest ATI drivers online. Havent even looked yet to see whats on the CD.

Cons: None! Nada! The bang for the buck is good! CON? OK well my bum is sore 12 hours non stop gamin' not a single shutter, crash, nothing! I threw everything i had at it! it threw it right back at me! I couldnt get it to slow up, crash. Twas FRAGMANIA! overload action! and it was still hungry for more! NO CONS AT ALL! Good choice for the money spent.

Overall Review: MY MACHINE RUNS 24/7. ASUS M3A78-T << sweet board, AMD 9850, Gskill PC 6500 4gbs, ATI 650 HD PVR Tuner, PC Power and Cooling 750w BLACK PSU (sweet) Ultimate Vista 64. WD400 , WD320. Custom Tower , well ventilated! Fan controller with 120mm fans. Honestly no issues , non, getting another one soon to run in crossfire. The M3A78-t i have, i could mount three but two should be just fine! $99 bucks! WOOT!

Pros: This card is outstanding for the price. I'm coming from crossfired Sapphire 3870's. It outperforms those in every respect. It's quieter than having two cards, produces less heat, and has less TDP. In every benchmark I looked through, it was JUST under the 4850 in performance, and equal or better than the crossfire 3870's. The games I play frequently are COD4, Far Cry 2, Battlefield 2, and UT3. All of these games play perfectly at 1680x1050 with AA and AF enabled. Far Cry 2 was especially impressive. It was like butter at all high settings, I don't think very high settings are even noticable compared to the performance difference. Anyways, games just don't scale well when utilizing crossfire. I find it better to use one capable GPU instead.

Cons: None. It was cheap, plays all the games I like perfectly, and it won't hurt to replace when the next best GPU comes out in 4 months.

Overall Review: My System: Phenom 9950(125w)@2.91GHz, 8GB A-Data DDR2 800, Gigabyte 790FX DS5 AM2+ Mobo, Powercolor 4830, Coolermaster Real Power Pro 650W PSU, 3 Seagate 250GB HD's with 16MB Cache.

Pros: an overclock makes it get on par and sometimes better 3Dmark scores than a stock HD4850. Runs all my games smoothly at 1650x1080 with pretty much max settings, runs Assassins Creed max settings at resolution at 60+fps. Nice value and blows away 9800GT on price Vs. Performance

Cons: no Crossfire bridge or any stickers or accessories, a 6pin power adapter is needed if power supply does not have one stock.

Overall Review: I would use just the graphics display drivers if no overclocking is needed. If the need for OC'ing is there the CCC from ATI is nice as well as fan speed controls which can be nice fore quieting systems. This replaced my eVGA 7600GT and is way over 2x's as powerful as the 7600GT. Colors are bright and vivid, using on a Acer 22" LCD monitor 16:10 no artifacts until it was overclocked 100mhz on core clock and +50mhz on memory clock

Pros: Had to throw my hat in the ring for this card. It plays Empire: Total War @ 1680x1050, Ultra settings, 16xAF, no AA at a solid 30fps (which works great for Total War). That is no easy task for such an intensive game. Cooling is pretty good, stays pretty quiet and idles <50C. When I saw the price on this card I went ahead and picked it up. There is no card that will compete for so little cash.

Cons: Memory is not great, as it artifacts if you overclock it to 950mHz (stock 900). The core is good though, have it maxed on CCC at 700mHz (stock 575) and it has no problems. Need to get a different program to push it further.

Overall Review: I came back to ATI after having an 8800gt and a laptop with a 9650m GT. This card DESTROYS those cards in image quality. The colors and volumetric effects are light years ahead of nVidia's bland appearance. I had heard nVidia caught up in IQ, but this is not at all the case IMHO. ATI for the win. System: Phenom II X3 720 @ 3.5, 2gigs mushkin, 2x640gig WD, this card (obviously), Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4, Corsair 520hx

Pros: Unbelievable bargain! With a little tweaking, this will exceed the performance of the HD 4850 and 9800 GTX in most applications and (with rebate) you could run two of these in SLI for the price of the others. Mine is running with 724 MHz Core Clock (26% o/c) and 975 MHz Memory Clock (8% o/c) completely stable no matter what torture test I throw at it with reasonable temps. Both clocks will go about 25 MHz higher (I backed off for a little breathling room) with no problems, but past that the heat rises and artifacts are noticable.

Cons: The only thing in the box other than the card is the installation guide and a driver CD (which you should of course never use and download the latest drivers). The fan can be loud at full blast, but I've only been able to get it there by changing the fan speed manually; this may be important if your case has poor airflow or you plan to REALLY push the card and create excessive heat.

Overall Review: Use Riva instead of CCC for tweaking. CCC's maximum Core Clock is 700 MHz and this card will keep going. I have been a loyal fan of the competition since the TNT2, but AMD/ATI have finally won me over with the incredible price/performance ratio of the HD 4000 series.

Pros: I wanted a card that would provide enough power for 3D and also deliver multichannel PCM to my receiver for BD playback. This card delivered both right out of the box with the native HDMI out - no wasting time on any forums trying to figure out which color dongle I had to match it up with. Installation was a can of corn.

Cons: None

Overall Review: The fan is very quiet, and the latest Cataylyst driver has a fan control applet built in. I've never seen this before and I think it's just great ! The 4830 fit a perfect niche and it is exactly what I was looking for and I'm 100% satisfied

Pros: Card worked great out of the box. Framerates tripled in World in Conflict compared to 8600GT. Runs Fallout 3 at highest settings "ultra" in 1280x1084, no lag. My idle temp is 37, max load is 55 where the fan runs in the 50-60% range and keeps it there.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Card is not recognized by the latest ATI catalyst and driver, but runs fine with the included driver or the latest from the Powercolor website (super slow download though). The included version of Catalyst detects and controls everything, including overclocking. Needs 6-pin power. No noticable fan noise in my rig, although my case already has 4 fans so I would only notice it if it was very loud. I'm planning on getting another one for crossfire when something comes out that requires more graphics power!

Pros: These new ATI 4800 series cards are just amazing...I also have a 4850 in a different machine and the 4830 is practically just as good!

Cons: None.

Overall Review: 129-20mir...sweet!