PowerColor Radeon HD 4850 DirectX 10.1 AX4850 1GBD3-PH 1GB 256-Bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: Price and FPS

Cons: Didn't come with a crossfire bridge. Has a black border by default at 1920x1080.

Overall Review: To get rid of the borders go into the Catalyst Control Center and configure your monitor/hdtv. Adjust the over/underscan.

Pros: This card is a great value. It plays MW2 on high with 2xAA.

Cons: You cannot control fan speed via CCC, but i can't even hear the fan because of other fans in my case. (<24db fans). No RAM heat sink but the fan does blow air over the RAM chips.

Pros: Good value for the money, card is about 100 bucks but you get 800 stream processors, 1GB and a 256 bit memory bus. Other cards with less features and performance cost more. I bought (2) and have them running in crossfire. For about 200 dollars I have killer performance (total 1600 stream processors and 2 gb of memory) plus all my games run on highest settings and they are smooth as butter. I Play Crysis on HIGH with 2X anti aliasing, 1600x1200 and game is VERY smooth). I also noticed that not one reviewer said that they had a DOA card and this is good. Both of my cards were fine and work perfectly. Cards are also very quiet and run cool. Highet temp recorded so far has been 59C. (Note: I do have 2 80cm fans blowing directly on the cards) I had purchased 2 4890 cards from best buy and returned them becasue one was DOA and becasue they turned a 70 degree room to a 95+ degree room. Both of these Powercolor cards do not put out nearly as much heat and are easy to live with.

Cons: Cards are not very overclockable. There are no heatsinks on the memory chips at all! There is no way to add heat sinks on the memory chips with the stock card cooler because half of the chips are covered by the heatsink so closely that there would be no room to do so. If you overclock the memory even slightly the card becomes unstable. My card is clocked at 675 core and the stock 950 on the memory and is 100 percent stable. There is no option to adjust the fan speed in CCC. I read this in another persons review also. Its not that the option is disabled, I mean it dosent even exist! Luckly, cards stay cool with the stock fan settings and are quiet. No crossfire bridge is given with these cards either. If you plan on running in crossfire make sure you have a bridge handy or order a new one from Newegg.

Overall Review: Dispite the Cons listed above I am extremly happy with these cards and the huge amout of performace that you get for the money. Cards run cool and do not heat up my room to crazy levels. For about 200 bucks the perfomance is insane! I never buy new generation products such as the 5000 series cards, drivers always suck in the begining and prices only go down as models get older. There are no DX11 titles out nor will the be for a long time yet. It will take me a fair amount of time to finish Dragon AGE, Boarderlands, Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Fallout series of games etc..., before I will be concerned with DX11 titles. By then it will be time for a total revamp this this PC anyway. I wonder how cheap the 5870 or 5970 cards will be when the ATI 6000 series come out? Maybe a 100-200 bucks? Will see...... :-) Phenom X4 990 Black Edition running at 3.0 AMD 790X Gigabyte Motherboard Corsair 850W power Supply 4GB Memory 2 Powercolor 4850 1GB in Crossfire!!! Soundblaster X-Fi

Pros: Good card, easy to install, download latest driver from ATI. Card runs really cool, 33 degrees c idle, goes up to 45c on moderate use. Using card in antec 902 case with I7 860 cpu o/c to 3160. For the money you get a good performing card, this card has no added goodies.

Cons: none as of now.

Overall Review: none

Pros: This card makes my old 4670 look like a dinosaur. Pleased with the performance, don't see a reason to overclock it at this point. Playing at 1400X900. Don't hear the fan at all in my room. Newegg as usual comes through with flying colors.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Glad I didn't spend the extra money on a 4870.

Pros: Awesome video card, amazing performance for the price (especially with the mail in rebate). Runs Crysis Warhead at medium settings at 1920x1080, and stays both very quiet and cool.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: It could barely fit into my Apevia Micro-ATX case, but I guess most video cards nowadays are getting this big.

Pros: Went from 3.9 to 6.9 rating with Win7 32bit performance by just adding this card. Heavy duty with Artic Cooling pro fan attached. HDMI cable 7.1 HD Surround Sound delivered. Get current Win7 drivers from ATI website. Nice ride with plenty 1GB DDR3 petal powercolor.

Cons: Win7 64bit still has driver problems using ATIs Radeon 64bitdriver and 64bit Catalyst Tool with BSOD. Had to wipe away the problems on my HD. Drivers on disk not current

Overall Review: No game bundle? No hard manual? But huge box? WYSIWYG

Pros: the card plays blur-ray perfectly, improves my windows 7 experience in that alone. I went from a shared 256MB Radeon HD 3200 to dedicated 1GB, I have noticed videos do look better. its fairly quiet, compared to the other fans I have installed. It also uses HDMI without a DVI converter,which gives me full use of my HDTV.

Cons: bigger than I thought it would be.

Overall Review: warning to microATX users: this card is massive, the fan will knock out one slot. at the moment i lost a pci slot, and my TV card and gfx card are right next to each other, my only concern is the fan which my TV card has covered won't work as well but thus far the fan looks like it able to push out the heat, I'll have to think about getting a bigger board if the gfx card looks like its getting too hot. poor planning on my behalf. but its a awesome card though, well recommended.