Good quality for your buck (Sapphire Radeon HD 4850)

Member Name: anaguma_kun

Product:	Sapphire Radeon HD 4850
Date:	24/10/09 (13 review reads)
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Advantages: Quiet. Good speed

Disadvantages: Gets hot

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 water cooling in your system. The 4850 comes with a twin DVI port and also an S-video connector

It is a reliable card and runs fairly quiet. On top of this though the card can get extremely hot although this has not yet lead to me having a system failure. For normal use this is a great card, and it performs well with video encoding and gaming.

Summary: Worth the money, but if you can get a slightly better model

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