SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4850 DirectX 10.1 100244L 512MB 256-Bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: Works as advertised. Easy install. Installation CD was effortless, good looking card. Plays everything thrown at it.

Cons: Runs hotter then i would like. Stock cooling was noisy with the fan speed increased, and didnt really solve the heat issue for me. I installed an aftermarket cooler, and it harldy ever breaks 52C now.

Overall Review: Built in fan controller in the drivers would be nice. Rear exhausting cooling design would be welcome. When alt tabbing from a game, my mouse cursor is reset to the middle of the screen, the screen flashes or reloads or whatever. Kinda annoying for me. Went from a 2300 3d mark 06 system to a 12k system, no complains.

Pros: Great card, powers through every game I have. Now I can actually play Call of Duty 4 with graphics set to as high as it can go and unlike my old card there's no lag what-so-ever, it plays it like a champ.

Cons: As almost everybody has stated it does run on the hot side but with the new catalyst control center (8.9) you can just simply crank the fan speed up higher I have mine at 85% most people complain about the noise but after a few days of listening to it you kinda get used to it.

Overall Review: I'm sure bottle-necking this card with a 2.4 ghz single-core cpu really isn't helping any but I'm still able to play everything I have with max graphics! I'm sure this thing has more potential then my current rig can let out.

Pros: Pure beef for it's price at it's time I've played many a game and even mined a half BTC during it's off time(Slush's Pooll, FTW) Really, does play some of today's games decently. BUT the 4870 shines through beautifully(AMD made a GDDR3vsGDDR5 price/cost/performance choice, it was pretty awesome) This GPU is and was a gem for it's time. Single slot.

Cons: GDDR3 Probably the last/best single slot higher~ish end card of it's time (Till the Quantum GPUs come out?) No, it's old... Think about it though... A single slot quantum GPU(Probably a quantum annealing co-processor, soon if we're REALLY lucky and the devs are on the ball) Probably nope.(Sorry for hypothesizing about nothing)

Overall Review: Sold it in 2014 for $200 with the MB/RAM/CASE it was connected to. Sits as an office computer with a Q6600 CPU and everyone loves it! Was part of my personal 2008/9 build. This thing was a real beast, and isn't now. It'll play games still as of this date though. And I think that's pretty sweet.

Pros: nice form factor, great on the visuals,

Cons: wasn't able to o/c further than 660Mhz clock and 1050Mhz memory. the auto tune feature would max out all settings but they werent stable under crysis or fallout 3. not sure if this is the limit of the card but i think the toxic saphire card would oc a hell of a lot more.

Overall Review: otherwise great card, seems like their sold out at the moment. planning on buying another one for crossfire with my 95500 3.7Ghz , GIGABYTE GA-X48-DS5, corsair pc2-8500 at 5 5 15 & 1066Mhz.

Pros: very nice looking and $150 runs L4D like a dream and the catalyst alow me to oc it to 700/1155 gpu/ram and runs at 48c under load with fan at 80% i am very happy pulls 11k easy in 3dmark 06 and 7980 on vanteg x4 9850 - ati 4850 / 2 gig gskill / sata 7200 320 gig / dvd light scribe /and all works great in a cheep ($45 atx case with cheep 500w psu) on asrock A780GXE/128M mb hole system $800 and thats with the 22" samsung lcd thank you new egg with fast shiping and fast rma on first sata 320 drive your #1 newegg YEEAAAAAAAA

Cons: not any i love it will xfire it soon

Pros: Using stock cooling able to over clock to 700/1145 Mhz on GPU/RAM.

Cons: Seems to run a bit on the warm side(62c), not sure if this will cause longevity issues. Power connection has clearance issues with hard drives in my case, would be nice if they would put it on the side.

Overall Review: Bought for Fallout 3, runs nicly at max quality settings with some occasional video artifacts.

Pros: After trying to get the card to fit in the case with the HDs, (They are very long, and I had to move things around.) they fired up with no issues. Crossfire X kicked in without any hassles.

Cons: They run really hot. Look up the fan fix online to keep them cooler. Long cards. (They are roughly the same length of a ATX motherboard, and you still have to have another .5 inches to plug in the PCI-E 6 pin power cables.

Overall Review: I don't know what the guy below me is talking about. I never touched the driver discs that came with them. I just downloaded the newest Catalyst drivers that were online and they worked great.

Pros: Excellent performance with a multitude of connections to suit any configuration. A must for high end gaming a performance. Very reasonably priced.

Cons: None yet

Overall Review: Takes Vista to a new level