Recently, we have seen an explosion of video cards from the industry’s two main manufacturers, NVIDIA and ATI, and this explosion brings the latest and greatest technology to us, the end users. The latest round from ATI is the HD4800 series, which is based on the RV770 core. The release of the upcoming 4800-series cards keeps with ATI’s six month turnaround cycle for their video cards, which gives them a great amount of time to perfect their new monsters. NVIDIA just released the GTX 200 series with a three month turn around from the 9-series cards, so will this longer incubating period work out to ATI’s advantage? With the 3800-series being so successful, I have high hopes for the new 4800-series!

PowerColor is one manufacturer jumping to release a 4800-series card, with their HD4850 offering, which brings to the table newer and faster technology. Building on the success of the HD3800′s, ATI has produced a new graphics core for a new flagship series of video cards, and the HD4850 is their mainstream model, which is aimed at everyone from casual gamers to hardcore enthusiasts, sporting QuadFire capabilities and a single slot cooling solution. Without further ado, I bring you the PowerColor HD4850 graphics card.

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