Sapphire Radeon HD 4850

The HD4850 is very powerful and will do most of your gaming needs easily, The 4850 is a very good card, it is quiet, if you get a decent cooler for it, and it is very reliable. There are a few reasons you should and shouldn't buy this card, but it is up to you to decide if it is good enough for your needs. A few reasons you should buy this card is: Extremely good value for money - Other, more expensive cards on the market are performing at a much lower standard than the 4850, but yet, are more expensive! Quiet with a good cooler- By default, the 4850 is quiet, but that is because the fan is set to run at just 26%! ...  Read the complete review

Treated myself to this and have never looked back! I can play all my favourite games on the highest settings without much thought. The card supports cutting edge everything including full directX 10 support (for vista games), shader version 4 and PCIE 2.0 which covers all of the current top-end games. This is by no means a budget card and to my knowledge the only difference between this and the 4870 is the clock speeds. The fan is virtually silent and not intrusively large, the card fits snugly - some fiddling is required if you want to put a drive behind the card but its certainly not as long as some previously disastrous ATI cards. ATI are slowly ...  Read the complete review

The Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 is a great Graphics card and is made especially for extreme gaming. This card is comes with a standard S-video to component splitter, and a 6 pin PCI-e to molex power converter along with whole load of game DVDs if you get the bundle. The bundle gives you some sample game demos so you can try out and see how good the card actually is. The card is slightly redesigned from its previous versions with a new heatsink and better fan. the fan takes air through the front and blows it out the back taking it through the heatsink. The air is let back into the PC case no external exhaust which means you should have some good fans or ...  Read the complete review

The Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 is a powerful beast by any standards specifically designed for extensive gaming which must utilise the power of a decent graphics adapter to its fullest capabilities. The bundle with this card is very substantial and includes a standard S-video to component splitter, and the 6 pin PCI-e to molex power converter. and a whole host of bundled dvd's and a curious little usb device which alas, is only filled with Sapphire promo details and is not able to be written to. The included DVD's are games but are unfortunately only demos. The card itself has a standard single slot cooler with a coaxial fan at one end and a newly designed ...  Read the complete review