PowerColor Radeon HD 4850 DirectX 10.1 AX4850 512MD3-DH 512MB 256-Bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: HDMI and Display Port(although I have no use for the latter) non-reference cooler keeps the GPU fairly cool. It's a 4850 so it performs great especially in crossfire. However...

Cons: ...this card as it is cannot be crossfire'd with any other card using Catalyst 8.11 and up. There is a problem with the BIOS that prevents it from being compatible. PowerColor is aware of the issue and says they "have a BIOS in beta testing". There is a fix for this though.

Overall Review: * FLASHING YOU'RE BIOS WILL VOID THE CARDS WARRANTY* If like me you can't wait for PowerColor to get their act together you can flash the card's BIOS with a different model to make it compatible. There are only two other BIOS's known to be compatible with this card. HIS VER011.008.000.000.029193 compile date 08/04/2008 and Sapphire VER011.004.000.000.029705 compile date 09/25/2008 Both BIOS files can be found on TechPowerUP's website along with ATIflash 3.60. Make sure to thoroughly read the flashing instructions as well as make a back up of the original BIOS.

Pros: Fast, quiet, cool and inexpensive. Used the latest drivers from ATI and I have had zero problems with this card so far.

Cons: No crossfire bridge is included...you have to email Powercolor a sales receipt that shows you purchased two cards and they will send you one (for free).

Pros: 100% fan speed is very quiet. It idles around 35c. Hits about 58c under load. Handles all of my games at 1600x1200 with 8xAA and 16xAF. 60+ FPS constant

Cons: Didn't come with a crossfire bridge.

Overall Review: It's slightly faster than the 8800GTX that it replaced. I'll be buying another one soon for crossfire. The only game that has FPS dips is Call of Duty World at War. Even thought it drops down to 35fps it's still playable. System specs: 4.2GHz e8400, 2GB DDR2, Sata2 Raid 0, Vista Ultimate x64

Pros: Runs very cool at idle and under full load and thus is very quiet. Gaming performance is quite good and for the price, it really is a bargain. I recommend this card to any gamer on a budget.

Cons: None

Pros: Non-Reference design shows improvements in thermal management as well as component layout. The on-board HDMI and Display Port are a nice bonus. Even at stock clock speeds this card outperformed my reference designed MSI 4850 clocked to match, still not sure why. My guess is an improvement in the BIOS.

Cons: Can't really say this is a con, only an inconveniance for now. The BIOS chip is different from the Reference 4850's. Meaning that current BIOS manipulation utilities aren't compatible. I'm sure that this will be sorted out soon enough however.

Overall Review: Very impressed with the performance of this card. I am using this card with an MSI 4850 in crossfire on a P5Q Deluxe. Signal is transferred via HDMI to my Dell SP2208WFP and the improvement in image quality was surprising indeed. Highly recommend this card.

Pros: Great value, (price has dropped significantly since I purchased last December), native HDMI port, (works great), new card design that is smaller, quieter, and cooler, runs movies and games with excellent clarity on HP 22" HDMI Monitor (1680 X 1050). This brings the eye candy to life. Seems to run better then an older "single slot" 4850 design (the "long" card) design, which I also have.

Cons: The 4850 would not run DVI output to some older Monitors, (AMD said it was a Microsoft Vista problem), but seems to run fine on newer monitors. I believe this model had problems with Crossfire early on, but may have been resolved. (I do not run Crossfire).

Overall Review: I put a Zalman VF900 Cooler on this, and it took temps down 10' C, and runs very quiet off MB power. It has handled 6 month of games, movies, and Internet surfing with NO issues. Make sure you update drivers off ATI Website, as the latest ones (9.6 ?) deliver increased performance for the 4850. At this price, no one should have to settle for onboard graphics..!!!

Pros: As good performance wise as any other Radeon 4850...

Cons: The fan on this video card runs at full power at all times. It appears that what powercolor tried to do is use a simple fan that was quieter than most other fans at full speed. While this may be true, it stays just as loud at idle, which for me was much louder than anything else in my office. The catalyst control panel doesn't show anything for the fan speed.

Overall Review: I sent mine back via RMA, and will be replacing it with a Radeon 4770 as soon as they're back in stock.

Pros: Higher than default core clock, and much quieter. Also the card runs significantly cooler than reference design.

Cons: none (I prefer /Built by ATI/, but this could change because the PowerColor)