Sapphire Radeon HD4670 1 GB DDR3 VGA/DVI/HDMI PCI-Express Video Card 100256HDMI

First note I'm a long time Nvidia user, so I was concerned about this card. Replaced my 8500GT 512 MB with this one. The 4670 was easy to install, has less power consumption, doesn't overheat, and superb performance.
I have noticed significant improvement in all my games. Were I was playing Fallout 3 at maximum of 1280x1024 on high settings with some lag, now I'm playing at 1440x900 in ulta high settings and no lag.
2 downsides for me was the audio built into the video card since it disable my onboard sound and I have no hookups for this type of audio. Disabled it and all was well.
Second was I was used to my screen auto adjusting to various resolutions in games. This one doesn't do that like my 8500GT did, so I found had to set resolution to a specific one to account for my widescreen, no big deal just annoying if you're not used to it lol.

Forget all these silly shooter games - does the card work with the latest game in the most popular franchise in history? Yes. It passes EA's 'EasyInfo' assessment easily for Sims 3.

I'd been able to play Sims 3 with all the graphics options set to 'low' with my on-board graphics, but my display adapter crashed if my Sims used the tv, computer or dollhouse. No problems with this card with the game set to med-high graphics options. (I'm still getting over the textures, which are so much more defined at the high end.)

My main concern about buying a new card was compatibility - I knew I had a PCIe slot, but I wasn't sure if the power supply was adequate. I've got a fairly common computer - HP Pavilion desktop (model a1720n, 2 years old, Vista 32-bit, Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz, 3 GB RAM) - and the power supply seems to be adequate, if it helps anyone with a similar set-up. Installation was no trouble at all (the a1720n and probably any newer Pavilion will...Read more

i got this card about a month ago and i got to say this is a great`card for the money i run tomb raider under world and grid and hitman blood money at all max settings with out even a hiccup be shure to up date to the new driver and ccc software version 9.12 as of dec 15th from [...] the one thats comes with the card can cause blue screen errs my system sapphire radeon hd4670 biostar 760g amd 64x2 5000 black ed 2 gb corisair xms2 ddr2 800mhz ultra pro 750 watt psu windows xp home 64