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Hi, I'm planning to buy an HD 4850 512mb video card. I'm not sure which version to buy, like from which manufacture.

some are cheaper, then some are faster, some are more quiet, some are better cooled; its up to you to decide which are most important

#highhopes

id go with visiontek, they have a lifetime warranty, they are like the EVGA of ati i think, but Palit, MSI an ASUS are all solid too

e8400 @ 4.0ghz | eVGA 750i ftw | 4 gigs ddr2 ram | Corsair 750Watt | eVGA 260core216

#3 there is no evga of ATI.

There is only EVGA

lol. HIS has the best coolers, so i like their cards

#highhopes

id go with sapphire,MSI,ASUS

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if you have bad luck with cards dying on you then go visiontek with their lifetime warranty. i have HIS for their great cooling solutions. ASUS and MSI are good too. XFX has joined the ATI brand and will be releasing cards soon.

i picked up the sapphire.

love it

#mRevolution

Buy one with a custom cooler, the normal one isn't really that good.

Hello tehre!

gigabyte has a very loud cooler, the rest is ok

#1 esea does not suck sir!

ICEQ4 Turbo is extremely quiet, extremely cool, and very fast. I have it and couldn't be happier.

#4 i obviously meant a company similar to EVGA (life time warranty, solid products) but working with ati

e8400 @ 4.0ghz | eVGA 750i ftw | 4 gigs ddr2 ram | Corsair 750Watt | eVGA 260core216

saphire, ASUS, MSI, visiontek, HIS are the only ones I would buy. I've heard bad things about a few gigabyte cards so I just avoided them in general.

thanks everyone, i think i found what i should be looking for.

This comment was edited at 01/07/2009 2:35 PM

xfx just came out with a line of ati cards

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How much power would I need for two 4850s in crossfire

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx..

I have a phenom quadcore X4 and 4 gigs of ram that are going into this pc

why not just get a 4870x2? you can run that on a good 650/700w

#highhopes

#16 great now XFX can ruin ATi cards too, now. :(

Graduated June 06, 2009!

#18 Because It's more expensive you stupid twat.

a little bit... then why not a 4850x2? thats cheaper than 2x4850

#highhopes

#17 its just cheaper to get the 4850x2 than crossfire them

true, but right now I can only afford 1, later on i might get a 4870 and cross fire who knows. I need to know how much power i need for two cards.

4850 x 2 or 4850 +4870 crossfired in both cases

thanks

you can't crossfire two different cards. a corsair 650 or just the ocz gamexstream 700 will be enough for crossfire

#highhopes

actually bellieve it or not, the Palit versions of the regular HD4850 and the X2 edition own sapphire, diamond, msi and asus versions, and are considerably cheaper, you can check that on techspot or tomshardware, dont remember wich one atm.

#24 tloft. actually you can, is called hybrid-crossfire, hybrid-sli for nvidia

I used the first MSI version, and it works great

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harle, the trollop fvcker. *applause*

H4tw

my ASUS ATI HD Radeon 4850 just arrived last night. a lot of reviews we're saying due to ASUS' overclocking and poor heatsink to make up for it it dies within a week-month running @ 80C+ but so far i haven't been able to get it over 50C.

so far so good for the first day :P unlimited smokes in 1.6 = ftw.

you sir, #29, are a liar. i dare you to say you get 100fps in 40 smokes!!!!

#30 i think you still could... mine gets 100 through at least 12... after that i got bored of throwing them

#highhopes

#30 i have a 9800gtx and i get 100fps in 16k worth of smokes

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always had good cards from saphire they are the only brand i have ever bought for ati since the first one was good so they get my vote

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