Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 (Sapphire Radeon HD 4850)

Member Name: Nigel1

Product:	Sapphire Radeon HD 4850
Date:	22/01/09 (128 review reads)
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Advantages: Powerful with a quiet cooler

Disadvantages: can become very hot

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 heatsink. The fan draws air from the front of the card and forces it over the large copper internal heatsink. The air is then expelled out of the rear of the cooler but then is just blown back into the case. No exhaust vents here!!
At the rear of the 4850 we have the standard connections consisting of twin DVI ports and one S-video connector.
When put to the sword the 4850 is extremely quiet and can become very hot but it still didn't crash once during the time that I have had it.In general its performance for the money is outstanding, with its almost silent cooler and excellent bundled software.

Summary: A good performance card at a reasonable price

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