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ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series GPUs bring the power of graphics 'supercomputing' to gamers, setting a new standard for visual computing.

Average Customer Rating: 4.61 out of 5 4.6 out of 5
261 of 278 (94%) customers would recommend this product to a friend.

Customer Reviews for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Review 41 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Performance: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Quality: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Deep_666
Location: Rajshahi,BD
Where Bought: I bought it at a local store (Best Buy, Fry's)
Duration Used: Less than a week
Technical Understanding: It's my job to know
Sweet!! Date: March 5, 2009
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features, Easy to Overclock

"Its realy a good card,it can maxed out most of new games."
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Review 42 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Performance: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Quality: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Zodgrod
Location: Edmonton Alberta Canada
Where Bought: I bought it at a local store (Best Buy, Fry's)
Duration Used: Less than a month
Technical Understanding: I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
Phenom 2 940 Date: February 28, 2009
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features, Easy to Overclock, Energy Efficient
Cons: it doesn't make me coffee in the morning

Product Use I use it for Gaming benchmarking and for video and photo editing and everyday computer tasks.
"I recently picked up and PH2 940 and man what an excellent processor.
Tasks on the computer take far less time as well as game performance and overall system perfomance has increased.

I paid less than 300 for it and I would have paid more.

A very great buy indeed
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Review 43 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Performance: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Quality: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Gaul
Location: South Africa
Where Bought: I bought it at a local store (Best Buy, Fry's)
Duration Used: A few months now
Technical Understanding: I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
Good Performance to price ratio Date: February 24, 2009
Pros: Fast, Good Value, Many Features, Easy to Overclock
Cons: Runs Hot, needs aftermaket cooler to put my mind at ease

Product Use Movie editing , Movies , Lots of Gaming.
"I recently purchased a ATI 4850 1gb ,
And Despite the initial Fan speed problem which the new drivers have sorted out ,I am very impressed with its performance even though i am still running a single core processor (which holds back the graphics card a lot).
However it does run extremely hot(hitting 80c+ under load in some games) and to put my mind at rest a aftermarket cooler or a card that has a rear exhaust is a must.
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Review 44 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Performance: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Quality: 2 out of 5 2 out of 5
korenje
Location: Slovenia, Ljubljana
Where Bought: I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used: Less than a week
Technical Understanding: I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
4870 512MB Date: February 21, 2009
Pros: Fast, Good Value
Cons: Part Failure, Runs Hot, envergy inefficient, noisy fan.

Product Use I play crysis. Can't wait for diablo 3 ...
"Unofrtunately I bought a sapphire 4870 512MB which stopped working, when I plugged it into 400W PSU. I got a new one now and it works fine and a new 520W PSU.
However I can't use warranty because I bought used one which was previously disassembled.

I must say this card consumes too much energy. More than our fridge. So typical for americans. or canadians. Can you ppl make a very fast card that doesn't consume more than 80W of energy at full load? Besides this card is way too big since it's overheating. Big cooler also makes it more expensive.

to sum it up, it's qute good speed/cost ratio. a lot better than nvidia (however only this product).
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Review 45 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Performance: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Value: 3 out of 5 3 out of 5
Quality: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
aaronCOD
Location: Austria
Where Bought: I bought it at a local store (Best Buy, Fry's)
Duration Used: A few months now
Technical Understanding: I know the basics
Overclock Date: February 16, 2009
Pros: Fast
Cons: overclock

Product Use Gaming
"Good GPU but Overclocking never worked.
Tryed all Updates, allways get a Bluescreen

HD 4850
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Review 46 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Performance: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Quality: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Gregxor
Location: Augusta, GA
Where Bought: I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used: A few months now
Technical Understanding: It's my job to know
Best performance at price point Date: February 6, 2009
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Pros: Fast, Good Value, Easy to Overclock
Cons: Runs Hot, driver anomalies

Product Use My 4870 is the latest card in my home system.
Fourth Generation of my own builds, she's where my inner engineer met my inner child.
"I've owned this card now for a while and overall I've very pleased at its raw horsepower performance. All the big titles as they came out; Fallout 3, Burnout Paradise, Call of Duty 5, and Left for Dead have played at maximum settings.

The only drawbacks I can see are strange quirks with particular settings or games. For example, multiple monitors work great as long as you do not frequently turn one off via C.C.C. Which hurts some game performance for us multiple monitor guys. Using a third-party application such as Ultra-Mon is a work around, but costs money.

Also noted another multiple monitor issue with Burnout Paradise, hopefully there is a hotfix or patch of some sort as it appears to be a driver issue (does not display anything on secondary).

I experienced had graphical issues with Mirror's Edge and was unfortunately unplayable due to the resolution issue. Disappointed, yet somehow I can't be surprised that an Nvidia super-optimized game doesn't run correctly on the competition. I digress.

In the time I've owned this card, I've been thoroughly impressed with its performance again and again, eagerly awaiting LAN parties at my workplace. They just can't come fast enough.
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Review 47 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Performance: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Quality: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Wingless
Location: Orange, NSW, Aus
Where Bought: I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used: Less than a week
Technical Understanding: I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
Worth every cent! Date: February 6, 2009
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features, Easy to Overclock, Energy Efficient

Product Use Extreme gaming.
"My HD4830 Is truely the best card I've ever owned. EXTREME overclockability I've pushed it from 585 (pre-overclocked) to 700 core/shader clock with barely any Heat rise. It beats Nvidia's cards any day!"
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Review 48 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 3 out of 5 3 out of 5
Performance: 3 out of 5 3 out of 5
Value: 3 out of 5 3 out of 5
Quality: 3 out of 5 3 out of 5
Ambushbug
Location: Georgia
Where Bought: It came with my computer (HP, Dell, Fujitsu)
Duration Used: Less than a month
Technical Understanding: I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
Need better drivers Date: February 6, 2009
Pros: Fast, High Quality
Cons: Difficult to use, no crossfire support with newer drivers.

Product Use I use it mostly for gaming, or as the case with one of my cards, not at all since there isn't a crossfire option with the newer drivers. This is a real problem with a lot of people, hope you find a solution for this soon.
"This is a very good card, great performance. The only gripe I have is that the last three sets of drivers for this card do not allow you to place your cards in crossfire mode. Seing as I have two my options are to use 8.10 drivers which are about 30% slower than the new drivers, or use the new drivers but not be able to utilize crossfire mode. Really a lose lose situation for me. My advice is if your going to buy this card just buy one for now."
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Review 49 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Performance: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Value: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Quality: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Hawknz
Location: Auckland New Zealand
Where Bought: I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used: A few months now
Technical Understanding: I know the basics
Amazing... Date: January 25, 2009
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features
Cons: Runs Hot

"Not much to tell here, the best of the best.
Just one problem....OVERHEATING

Come on ATI need some third party cooling...for example sapphire atomic but sooner then later.
Worth spending every buck
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Review 50 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Bud
Location: northern ca.
Where Bought: I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used: Less than a month
Technical Understanding: I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
Running 2 dual 4870x2 cards water cooled Date: January 24, 2009
Pros: Easy to Overclock
Cons: Not Fast Enough

Product Use I water cool and overclock everything
"Ati drivers will not support 2 dual 4870 cards for running crossfire-performance is slow. for best performance turn crossfire off till drivers are finished. am also running quad extreme cpu with this. Cards must be water cooled to overclock"
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Review 51 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Performance: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Quality: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
JMC74
Location: Antioch, CA
Where Bought: I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used: A few months now
Technical Understanding: It's my job to know
Excellent Performance, for bargan bin price Date: January 23, 2009
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features, Easy to Overclock, Energy Efficient
Cons: not enoght money to buy 4 and run it on quad cross

Product Use for playing game like COD4, Crysis, Battlefield 2142, 2, 1942, FEAR and others.

keep it comming AMD/ATI!!!
"I cannot pass the opportunity to review a such great product; AMD/ATI have a Winning product with the newwest release on their HD' series, the 48xx series specially the 4850 have the power to crush the NVIDIA competition, on both areas PRICE and Performance.

PRICE: you cannot get a better performing product from NVIDIA, the 4850 series have all the features of his bigger sibling the 4870, just a tad lower speed, also coupled with GDDR3 vs GDDR5 on the 4870, but I can tell you if you use 2 on a CROSSFIREX mode the performance will top the GeForce GTX280 and the price is almost half, the 3DMARKS also speak for it, the Nvidia GTX280 gets about 13500+/- and the 4850 in Crossfirex 15300+/- on a simillar clocked processor (3.0Ghz)
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Review 52 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Performance: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Quality: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Leon1464

Where Bought: I bought it at a local store (Best Buy, Fry's)
Duration Used: A few months now
Technical Understanding: I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
HD4850 Date: January 19, 2009
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality
Cons: Runs Hot, not easy to overclock because of the high temps.

"Really the best graphic card for serious gaming up to 22´monitors resolution."
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Review 53 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Performance: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Quality: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Rob

Where Bought: I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used: A few months now
Technical Understanding: I know the basics
Excellent Card Date: January 12, 2009
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features, Easy to Overclock

"Purchased a 4850 Radeon as an upgrade from my aging G-Force 5600; the 4850 is an incredible card!!!!"
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Review 54 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Performance: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Quality: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
UNiX
Location: Puerto Rico
Where Bought: I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used: A few months now
Technical Understanding: I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
Best ATI card ever! Date: January 11, 2009
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Pros: Fast, High Quality, Many Features, lot of video quality features, excellent performance with anti aliasing
Cons: some driver issues with certain games., superscalar design is too dependent of the driver., high power consumption when idle

Product Use For video transcoding, graphic demos, games, video playback.
"Best ATi card ever. Since I bought it I've been in love with it's performance. I can play Crysis with very high settings, 4x FSAA at 1280x1024. Has a lot of video features like tone fleshing, sharpening, etc. I don't like the fact that because of it's design, it relies heavy in driver optimizations to maximize it's performance which means that when this card gets old, probably it won't shine like it's doing now, something that won't happen in other cards like the X1950 series. Also it consumes a lot of power when idle, it should go down to 300Mhz instead of 500MHz in core, and the RAM should throttle, something that doesn't do generating unnecesary heat dissipation and power consumption. Overall this is the card to get, with it's great performance and features that won't break your back unlike other companies."
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Review 55 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Performance: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Quality: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
sterman
Location: new york, ny
Where Bought: I bought it at a local store (Best Buy, Fry's)
Duration Used: Less than a month
Technical Understanding: I know the basics
ATI Radeon HD 4870 Date: January 10, 2009
"absolutly the best card for that money =), i just love it. with this card, hardcore gaming is that what its supposed to be! go on like that ATI"
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Review 56 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Performance: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Quality: 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Entharion
Location: Axel, Netherlands
Duration Used: A few months now
Technical Understanding: It's my job to know
Good Date: January 9, 2009
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Energy Efficient, takes one slot, havoc physics
Cons: Runs Hot, chokes on aa, advised to install a new cooler, no ageia physx

Product Use I've installed it together with an Intel Q6600 and 4gb of RAM on a Striker Extreme motherboard, and mainly use it to play high-end games.
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Review 57 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Performance: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Quality: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Octoron
Location: Toledo, OH
Where Bought: I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used: A few months now
Technical Understanding: I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
Great high end graphics Date: January 7, 2009
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features, Easy to Overclock, Energy Efficient

Product Use I use it for a variety of games and also i use the folding at home that comes with the new driver set.
"This card is fast! I can't believe how well this car handles gaming!"
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Review 58 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Performance: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Quality: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
smulla
Location: Los Angeles,CA
Where Bought: I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used: Less than a month
Technical Understanding: I know the basics
Bang for the Buck! Date: January 6, 2009
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Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features, Energy Efficient
Cons: drivers could use improvement, certain vendors hard to overclock

Product Use Home computing and videocgames
"I bought the 4830 and 4850 I was able to Overclock both cards to the next product up. I mostly use ATI cards I only had one from the other side and it was ok but the fan was loud."
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Review 59 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Performance: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Quality: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Joker
Location: California, CA
Where Bought: I bought it at a local store (Best Buy, Fry's)
Duration Used: A few months now
Technical Understanding: I know the basics
Nothing to Complain about Date: January 6, 2009
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features, Easy to Overclock

Product Use i use it for gaming, downloading, watching movies etc
"Nothing to Complain about. This series is amazing i personal have the ATI Radeon 4870 it is so fast and worth every penny. dont just buy a smaller and cheaper one because its going to wear out faster just buy an more expensive one and have it last a lot longer and kill every game thrown in its path. I was going to get the ATI Radeon 4870x2 but i just didnt have the money but when i built my next PC i will stick with ATI /Amd but if you want the x2 one you better look for a better cooling fan if your going to over clock it . i havent over clocked it yet because i dont need to its already really fast"
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Review 60 for ATI Radeon™ HD 4800

Overall: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Performance: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Quality: 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
codeledoc
Location: IL
Where Bought: I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used: A few months now
Technical Understanding: I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
Good Bang for your Buck Date: January 6, 2009
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features, Easy to Overclock, Energy Efficient

Product Use I play games like Bioshock and Fallout 3 at max settings.
"I got more power for my dollar than I would have with nvidia."
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