XFX Radeon HD 4890 HD-489X-ZSFC Video Card

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This is a fantastic High-end Graphics card by itself or if you do crossfire, triple crossfire or quad crossfire like I did. Even as a stand alone GPU, this is WELL worth the money! Buy it!

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I like everything about it, like the other reviews say, the only thing that's strange about mine is that normal use (so right now as i write this review) the fan speed on the card goes from 0% for 3 sec. to 100% for 3 sec. Maybe it's something I can change? But as far as I know I haven't found a fix. It's just a little annoying, because it's fairly easy to hear. It probably wouldn't bother me as much if the desktop was down on the floor, but as it is, it's right next to me on the desk. Other than that, everything's running great.

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This Video Card works great, I installed 2 XFX Radeon HD 4890 cards on two different Motherboards ,MSI 48X and Gigabyte EP45T both worked without any problems, if you install Windows 7 64bit you must download the latest drivers from ATI to get it to work. it works on XP without any downloads, also runs on most Linux 64bit with the 2008 ATI driver without a problem.

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this card actually went beyond my expectations. it performs great, if overclocked it can be a bit noisy but it performs great. I played MW2 on this at max everythin without oclock and does not even make noise!!!! if youre more into fps than dx11 this is your card. I recommend crossfire with this...

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Great card at a good price.

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I replaced my old 8800GT with this card and I'm glad I did. Frame rates increased threefold and I don't have any problems with drivers like others mention (I'm still running 32 bit XP though). The card is also less noisy than the 8800GT it replaced. Don't have any problems with heat either, even though my PC case is pretty old and doesn't really have good ventilation. My aging 550W PSU seems to handle it without issues too. So can't really think of anything bad to say about this card. I'm happy I got it.

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This is my second 4890 after replacing a Sapphire vapor-x model that had cold-boot issues. Both cards had driver issues with nearly every game I was currently playing. Modern Warfare 2- locks up and quits to windows under stress. Borderlands- gets fps of 30-45, which is a joke for that game engine. Resident Evil 5- refuses to display video during interactive cut-scenes(which you must be able to navigate in order to advance). These are all legit driver issues as I googled them and found many others with the same problem. Those are all the current games I am playing, and I can't enjoy any of them. For ATI fan-boys that say stop whining about ATI drivers, I say you got it! I bought a gtx 275 for a little more. Frames per second went up in all the games I am playing, absolutely zero driver issues, and the fan is inaudible compared to the hair dryer on the 4890. I really wanted to like this card as it was at a great price point, but it just didn't perform.

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For the price this is a solid card without a doubt an amazing overclocker. While it is a good card you got to keep in mind that you might be able to find better cards if you don't intend to overclock.

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This card is huge so you better have the room. So far so good with this bad boy, Ive tried to make it work hard but you really cant. Just a great performer, worth every penny.

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I bought this card to replace a broken down Radeon HD 4850. This card overclocks very well and can play crysis in hacked ultra high settings at 60 fps. Amazing card i recommend it to anyone

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This is without a doubt the best GPU I've owned to date. It is super quiet yet has excellent cooling. It is crazy fast too. I can run Crysis on almost max settings with this vid card. I recommend this to anybody who wants a nicely priced gaming card.

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This card's cooler is definitely better than my old XFX 4890. It is actually about 10-12 degrees cooler than my old XFX 4890( the one that first came out). You can overclock this with the CCC to over 900MHZ no problem and it still runs pretty cool. I would buy again.

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I can max pretty much any games I throw at my i7 rig at 1920x1080 with no aa with a very good fps (40+). I recommend it at a cheaper alternative to the green team, which I consider overpriced.

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This card is amazing its performance is unbeatable for anything around this price. GDDR5 is increadible and beats any Nvidia card on the market anywhere near this cheap. Cheap price in this instance does NOT mean cheap product. I reccomend this card to ALL gamers. AMAZING!!

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non-reference design, item not as pictured, performs poorly, cheap cooler, should have bought a different brand, thought the xfx would be good. Should have bought the powercolor version, that one is $10 cheaper This review was modfied by poster d 10-02-09 03:41 PM This review was modfied by poster @ 10-02-09 03:11 PM