ASUS & Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 Reviews

• Benchmark Reviews: ASUS Radeon HD 4830 Video Card EAH483:
  
  

  "As with most Asus products, the EAH4830 is very well constructed. The heatsinks were firmly attached, with no noticeable movement or flex. Asus went with high quality capacitors, mosfets, chokes, and EMI shielding. All add up to great construction quality, which equates to better stability and a higher overclocking threshold.
  
  Once in our test system, the EAH4830 performed admirably. With the stream processors reduced by 20% and clock speed down 50MHz compared to the HD 4850, I expected performance to suffer substantially. In all of our tests, however, the EAH4830 offered framerates close to the 4850, only differing an average of 10-12%. The factory overclocked memory certainly helped, and overclocking the GPU could easily close this gap. The only knock I have against this card is the lower performance per watt, with power consumption on par with the higher performing HD 4850. Fortunately, the Asus designed heatsink and fan helps keep the heat produced by this power consumption in check. "

  
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• Modders-Inc: Sapphire HD 4830 Graphics Card:
  
  

  "For the price it just can't be beat, lol, heck buy two and run them in CrossFireX for a killer gaming setup for a fraction of the higher end cards. I can only imagine what two Sapphire HD 4830's in CrossFireX would do .... Whew! "

  
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