Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 OC

I bought this two weeks ago now to upgrade my old 8600 gts and what a step up this was, armed assault in very high quality,batman arkham asylum in highest quality and fallout in the highest quality all at 1280x1024 which is the resolution my monitor supports. It eats all these games for breakfast and still has room for more. My only gripe about this is the fan noise which is real loud,not quite hairdyer loudness though but the loudest card i have heard. The card comes with 1gb ddr5,850 mhz core clock and a memory clock of 975 MHz. I have read that these are great for overclocking with up to 14% performance increase which is huge i have yet to try this out ...  Read the complete review

I presently have 2 of these GPU's running in my rig. In my opinion ATI presently have the upper hand on NVIDIA with regard to 'bang for buck' at the moment. Very generally, 2 of these cards will outperform a GTX295 in most games, not all but most. A single 4890 will perform similar to a GTX275 and in some applications it can be compared to a GTX285. I have had no serious issues with these cards. They run hot, but that is how they are designed. Catalyst Control Centre (CCC) can be easily tweaked to alter fan speeds if you start get worried about the temperatures. Alternatively you could use Rivatuner top set up your own fan profiles. The ...  Read the complete review