XFX ATI Radeon HD 4850 1 GB DDR3 2DVI/HDTV PCI-Express Video Card HD485XZDFC

Comment: This XFX Radeon HD4850 is awesome.Works excellent. Performance is far better than other graphic cards i have owned such at the radeon X1600xt. I have the XFX Radeon HD 4850 with Asus M4N72-e, 4gb of OCZ memory, Two 250GB Western Digital SATA HDD,AMD Phenom II X4 3.0Ghz CPU,M-Audio 2496 Souncard. Operating systems MAndriva linux Powerpack 2010 & Windows 7. Presently i want another card like that.Just need to save up the cash.

Comment: Been running great so far. Runs HD 1080p video just fine, can run Crysis on all medium and some high. Can't beat lifetime warranty!

Comment: My previous card was Radeon X1050. It played Oblivion decently at really low settings. I eventually needed a better card to run Street Fighter 4. This card runs both of those, and also Fallout 3, at pretty high settings. I recommend it if you want to play your games without being an elitist snob for superfluous eye candy.

Jade Empire and Tomb Raider (yes, I play that!) Anniversary no longer work. It's probably a simple fix by either updating the driver, or patching those games. I don't care enough to try. I think I should add that I have to turn the levels off in SF4 if I want to play online at a reasonable speed, though I blame my cheap single core (ouch) processor.

Comment: This graphics card crashes with many games like FEAR and CRYSIS if set to any relatively high resolution. I had the card replaced by XFX twice so far. Everytime they declare the card "FAULTY" and send another one that does the same exact thing. It crashes the whole system with vertical stripes. The system needs to get rebooted to get out of this mood. Looking on the Internet, I found that many people have the same problem with this GPU.

Comment: I bought this item as a replacement for a previously purchased video card, whose fan suddenly started making the most horrendous noise, which could not be addressed without removing the cheap plastic fan (which would make the card run dangerously hot).

Before I say anything more I want everyone to know that I am an AMD/ATi fan. I don't buy NVIDIA or other graphics cards. This card runs extremely quietly, and is not too hot for a large case. I use a Thermaltake Armor MX, which is a full ATX size. Graphics output is great, for the money you spend, and when paired with my AMD Phenom Black Quad and 8 GB DDR2 RAM, I doubt I would even have issues running Crysis at a reasonably high fps, on a widescreen monitor.

If you want plenty of power for a steal, get this card.