Visiontek Radeon HD5850 1 GB PCI Express Card 900297

Comment: Decided to buy a new card because my old PNY Geforce 9800 GT couldn't keep up anymore, first I wanted to go with GTX 280 or HD 5830 than after reading some reviews and seeing some charts I was pretty sure that this is an investment to make for couple of years to come and I wasn't wrong. It performs well with most of the latest titles like Dirt 2, AVP, Assassins Creed 1 and 2, GTA 4, Crysis Warhead. Run all them at max settings at 1920x1080 resolution it's all really smooth and get good fps on all of them.
Pros:
Very powerful yet doesn't require much power of PSU, can be easily overclocked to 5870 level, runs cool.

Cons:
It's long and bulky, but should fit most of the cases without problems. Power connectors are in the front. Auto fan control isn't that good and it crashed couple of times because it wouldn't react till card overheats but I set it to 50% manually so it's ok now.

Although cons aren't that important just wanted you to know. Off the topic:
Does anyone know why graphic cards keep getting bigger and bigger instead of getting smaller and more efficient? Is progress going backwards when computer used to take up the whole room :D

Comment: 5850 is really a great GPU name it Crysis, Bioshock 2, Just cause 2 and BF:BC2 all of them at Max in everything on 720p on my lcd tv its more than great with me and not to mention the HDMI Audio and Video output and the Avivo Technology for Videos and Movies this is 5 stars Product if u ask me.
Thnaks and Best regards Sulaiman from Kuwait