Diamond 4850 PCIE 512MB GDDR3 Video Card | 
| Brand: Diamond
List Price: $199.99
Buy New: $185.96
You Save: $14.03 (7%)
New (36) Used (2) from $185.96
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 14555
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Graphics RAM: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 9.5 x 3
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 4850PE3512SB
Model: 4850PE3512SB
UPC: 757448006285
EAN: 0757448006285
ASIN: B001ASJJ4Y
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Box Content - Diamond Viper HD 4850 PCIE 512MB GDDR3 Video Card, Quick Start Guide, DVI-TO-VGA Adapter, S-Video Cable, CROSSFIRE Bridge Interconnect, Component HDTV Adapter, Install CD, Diamond Warranty Card, and DVI-TO-HDMI Adapter | | • | Play the latest PC games supporting DirectX 10.1, the latest generation of gaming graphics | | • | Everyday home computing applications (such as Vista, photos, standard videos, and games) | | • | 2 Dual-Link DVI, Video Out [S-Video, Composite, HDTV] Ports | | • | MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264 Video Acceleration |
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Product Description
Redefine HD Gaming the ATI Radeon HD 4800 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. Play today while preparing for tomorrow with tessellation, support for DirectX 10.1 and scalable ATI crossfire technology.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
An exceptional card August 25, 2008
Juan Manuel Bautista Hoepfner (Puebla, Puebla Mexico)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought it after reading several reviews online, and I wanted to use an ATI card for a change. It seemed to me that nVidia cards were somewhat overpriced. The 4850 card was generating so much fuss, that it couldn't be so bad a card.
Boy am I glad I bought it. This card smokes. I have it hooked to 2 lcd monitors, and it doesn't even hiccup with several OpenGL programs open at once. I'm not too much into gaming, and use XP64bit, Vista gives me the shivers, too much bad press on the OpenGL side.
Unless you REALLY need the features of the Quadro or FireGL (or FirePro) cards, this card is more than suitable for CAD-related work. And some apps like Lightwave don't benefit from the high-end features on those much-more-expensive cards.
This is supposed to be a gaming card. But it handles 3d apps (Lightwave, Silo, Shade, 3d-coat, Poser, etc) marvelously.
I don't give it 5 stars only because the included heat dissipation solution could be improved a bit. By default, the fan is reliant on the GPU load, not on the temperature, so it can be quite hot in idle mode (80 celsius). The card is supposed to be able to take it, but still...
The latest ati tray tools let you control the fan speed by temperature, but still, it should be automatic. So if you buy the card, don't forget to download them, and enable the fan thingy.
 Careful when buying this. September 17, 2008
Yousef Alsaif
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've got this card two days ago and had two bad impressions. First thing, unlike most other brands this card did not come with 6-pin power connector that is needed to supply the card with power if you have PSU without 6-pin.
After getting my 6-pin connector (hard to find in local shops), I ran the card and after checking its temperature it appeared to run way too hot. I'm getting 72-74c idle and up to 85c load temp, this is probably due to the poor diamond heatsink. I'll probably be forced to buy custom heatsink for this card later. Other than that I haven't got any technical issues and the card runs games as fast as expected. Minus 2 stars for the issues I had above, this card gets 3 star score.
 Buggy ATI Software (Still)! September 21, 2008
Mr. Big (California, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I took a 8 year hiatus from ATI video cards and switched over to Nvidia. Back then ATI drivers were notorious for being buggy, late arriving, and having issues with a few select games. I see some things haven't changes dispite the fact that AMD has purchased ATI. In this particular case it's not the driver itself this time but rather the ATI CATALYST CONTROL CENTER software that controls the display features. It suddenly displays an error message upon Windows start-up and will not load. I did NOTHING to cause this to start happening. I did a Google search and discovered all kinds of well documented cases of the same problems. In addition, when you try to uninstall the Catalyst software, it still leaves items in your hard drive's "programs" folder and in the context menu. BACK TO NVIDIA I GO!
 Solid budget card August 9, 2008
Braden Holstege
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Pro's: 8800GTX performance for sub $200 is great. Full support for HDCP and hi-def decoding. Same core as the 4870, just at lower speeds with GDDR3. Can run Folding at Home. Good performance in almost all games.
Con's: Runs very hot, can be painful to touch. Fan is quiet at idle, but can rev up pretty loud under loud. First one was DOA, had to get it replaced. Diamond's warranty is rumored to be iffy.
Very good, but careful with the heat September 4, 2008
E. Bernard (Mexico City)
Very good videocard, the only problem i've had is that its very easy for it to overheat, i would recommend to be extra careful with ventilation in your case.
Other than that, i've had no problems with it.
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