Product Description

The VisionTek ATI Radeon HD 4850 brings the power of graphics, supercomputing to gamers, setting a standard for visual computing. Redefine the way you play and take HD gaming to the extreme with best-in-class performance. The TeraScale graphics engine delivers an immersive, cinematic gaming experience. Add this GPU to your PC and watch Blu-ray movies and play HD content with incredible visual fidelity. Do it all with break-through efficiency that doesn't compromise performance.The ATI Radeon HD 4850 Series GPUs deliver a cinematic gaming experience with unprecedented performance. The powerful TeraScale graphics will propel you deep into your gameplay with seamless frame rates and high resolutions. Enhanced anti-aliasing (AA) and anisotropic filtering create striking graphics with unparalleled realism so you can max out the settings of the most demanding next-generation games or revitalize your favorite titles.Add an ATI Radeon HD 4850 Series GPU to your PC and watch the latest Blu-ray and HD movies play with incredible fidelity - upscale to nearly twice the display resolution of HD content. Take full advantage of Blu-ray functionality with dual-stream, picture in picture (PIP) capabilities. Sophisticated features within ATI Avivo HD technology provide a truly responsive experience. Support for the latest audio visual interconnects ensures you can take advantage of the latest display technology.Like its predecessors, the ATI Radeon HD 4850 Series GPUs offer optimal performance and break-through efficiency with platform-independent intelligent power management. ATI PowerPlay delivers the power needed to blaze through even the most intense games while intuitively conserving energy at idle or when demand is low.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19560 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: VisionTek
• Model: 900241
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x 2.50" w x 10.50" l, 4.00 pounds

Features

• 512MB GDDR3 memory
• DirectX 10.1
• ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance (Use up to four discrete cards with an AMD 790FX based motherboard)
• PCI Express 2.0 support

Customer Reviews

Excellent product!
Well, I can't say much about this product that isn't good. It's a matter of perspective as I upgraded from a VERY old computer (almost 5 years). Also, this is my first experience with ATI cards, which made me a little reluctant at first, but I'm a very happy camper now.

But, that being said, here they are:

Pros:
1. FAST card. All of the games I've played are running excellent in full settings. I am, however, still running on a 17" LCD, meaning max of 1280x1024. However, that should be good enough for any average gamer. I am expecting to purchase a 22" monitor and maxing out at 1600x1050, but understand the card should run anything available at the market right now at maxed settings.
2. Excellent price. It's amazing how video card prices have dropped exponentially for good cards, and that's a plus for customers.
3. Limited lifetime warranty. As far as I've researched, this is the only Radeon card manufacturer that offers a lifetime warranty.

Cons:
1. After being installed, I couldn't even install Windows on the new computer because it was overheating. The problem turned out to be the fan needed a little "push" to start running. No problems after that!
2. VisionTek's customer service was slow in responding to my inquiries regarding the overheating, and didn't offer much troubleshooting or really professional communication. However, after explaining all of the trouble (and a 10-email chain back and forth) and troubleshooting, they offered to RMA the card for the warranty. However, since I live outside the US there aren't any non-expensive ways of doing this. If VisionTek reads this, I'd suggest offering other types of support for customers in trouble.

All being said, the card is running in an excellent way in Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit without any visual trouble :)

Great Performance for the price
This card runs all my games maxed out, crysis, bioshock, gears of war, Assassins creed, etc.
Only downside is this card is very very hot.
I recommend this product, for people like me that are gamers with not much of a budget.
If you do have a bigger budget, go for the hd4870!

VisionTek Radeon HD 4850
This is a good card for the Money. I am using two of them in crossfire. I am very happy with the performance that I am getting out of them when I consider what I paid for them. I do not play Crisis so I don't care that you can't play that game on high quality. I do play a lot of Oblivion, FEAR and WOW. I do play other games that also work very well on this card. No issues. I like the Lifetime warranty that VisionTek has on this card. I think the standard warranty for other card manufacturers is only one year. I recommend this card.