SAPPHIRE HD 4850 TOXIC Edition Review

The Sapphire HD 4850 TOXIC Edition comes preoverclocked and a Zalman heapipe fan, providing more efficient cooling, quieter operation and more headroom for performance tuning:

While ATI has said that the temperatures are ok, something had to be done. The Zalman GPU cooler used on the Toxic HD4850 cooled the card quite well. Idle temperatures of 35 to 38 degrees Celsius, and load temperatures of 60 to 64 Celsius - with zero noise - are a huge improvement over the standard cooling used on the 4850 series cards - no BIOS or software modifications needed. The fact that the Toxic is an overclocked card means that the performance should exceed that of a non-overclocked version, which it did in 27 out of 32 benchmark tests.

Great price, great bundle, great cooling, and overclocked performance make the Sapphire Toxic HD4850 a winner.

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