XFX ATI Radeon HD 4850 1 GB DDR3 VGA/DVI/HD MI PCI-Express Video Card HD485XZNFC

I bought this from amazon at a little over $100. I had an on-board 512MB RAM ATI graphic card that came with my HP. This has tripled the video capacity of my computer and lets me take advantage of my suped up desktop i7. I did plenty of research on [...] and cnet, and this by far (as of 7/2010) is the best bang for the buck card. I highly recommend. Installation was as easy and opening the box, finding the old card (make sure machine is off) pulling the tab to loosen the old card, and putting the new card back in its place. Put the cover back on and you are ready to rock. No instructions needed. I then downloaded AfterBurner ATI (free utility) online to monitor the temperature of the graphic card CPU and it has not gotten over 50 degress (usually they top out at 80-90) - so Im thinking the fan and the graphic card CPU work very well in tandem. I did need to upgrade to the newer driver after install as the original configuration had my card running hot and the fan running low,...Read more

I love this GPU. I bought one 2 years ago and it is still working perfecly. Now that I had the chance to buy a new Graphical Card, I've choosen to make a ATI crossfire connection and it is working really nice. Ow, and the price is really nice,

I bought one first to try...it blew my Nvidia GT220 right out of the water!! I still love Nvidia but ATI/AMD have made it super easy to config these cards!

Playing Battlefield 2 and other games very happily on this card...and next week I am receiving my 2nd, putting it in crossfire mode to test...I'll probably be good for a while lol. Crossfire two of these and it's equivalent to discrete single GTX 295, GTX 480, GTX 570 (according to tomshardware)!!! O_O