| ATI Sapphire HD4850 Video Card |
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Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850
Introduction
Sapphire Technology introduced their HD4800 series recently with the promise of top-of-the-line gaming. They have sent the HD4850
in the hope of achieving TechwareLabs' approval. Read on to see how the
system performed based on the scores from some common benchmarking
tools.
Observation
In
regards to packaging, care was taken such that the product would be
well-protected during shipment. The box is designed to sell, with the
bold claim of Sapphire being the No. 1 manufacturer for ATI. With the introduction of the 4800 series of video cards and their subsequent impact on the market, Sapphire may well be justified in increasingly that claim to the best selling card, and with good reason.
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The
installation went smoothly, though initially we had issues with the CD not working. It has always been our advice to skip the driver CD entirely whenever possible and download the latest drivers from ATI or the card vendor which in this case is of course Sapphire. For our tests we used the Catalyst v8.7 drivers.
Test System
| Test System |
| Motherboard | Abit AN78GS |
| Processor | AMD Quad-Core Phenom 9350e @ 2GHz |
| Graphics | Sapphire ATI Radeon HD4850 |
| RAM | 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2-1066 |
| Hard Drive | Western Digital Raptor 150GB (10kRPM) |
| Power Supply Unit | Corsair HX620W |
| Operating System | Windows XP Pro 32-bit |
| Direct X | Version 9 |
| Drivers | ATI Catalyst v8.7 |
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