Diamond ATI Radeon HD5850 PCIE 1024 MB GDDR5 Video Card 5850PE51G

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.1 x 12.4 inches ; 2.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002Q6RNTM
• Item model number: 5850PE51G
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 23, 2009

Product Description

Prepare to experience a riveting high-definition gaming experience with ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series graphics processors. Expand your visual real estate across up to three displays and get lost in the action with revolutionary ATI Eyefinity Technology. Using ATI Stream technology, accelerate even the most demanding applications and do more than ever with your PC. The first to deliver full support for Microsoft DirectX 11, these GPUs enable rich, realistic visuals and explosive HD gaming performance so you can dominate the competition. Product features include: GPU: ATI Radeon 5850, Bus Type: PCI-Express X16 (PCI Express 2.0), Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay technology, 1 GB GDDR5 memory, ATI Eyefinity technology, ATI Avivo HD video and display technology, ATI Stream technology, API Support: DirectX 9.0 and 10.0, 10.1, 11.0 Open GL3.2, Display Formats: Two Dual Link DVI + HDMI + Display Port, ATI CrossfireX multi-GPU.This product comes with one year warranty with a free additional year if registered online within 30 days of purchase.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great cards, November 3, 2009

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Mark Sowder "MarcusBorilius" (Brigham City, Ut Usa) - See all my reviews
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Wow great cards, bought two of these for eyefinity and crossfire. With the latest catalyst driver it shows that crossfire is enabled in windows 7. Looks like I got them at the right time before the price increase.
Run everything at max settings World at war looks great, and they are almost silent. Great cards I would recomend to anyone.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great improvement, quiet, power miser., March 22, 2010

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Eric Townsend "Eric Townsend" (Post Falls, ID United States) - See all my reviews
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I replaced my ATI Radeon 4850HD with this 5850. Great improvement in the games I play (Battlefield 2: Bad Company, Fallout 3). I am finally able to game in full 1920x1200 resolution!
The price here on Amazon was in-line with Newegg, and actually less when I factored in shipping (Prime). The entire Radeon 5000 line is priced above retail everywhere right now anyway, but Amazon was closer than most.
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit using Catalyst 10.2 would not give me a rating on the video. I updated to the beta 10.3 drivers and it scored 7.6 out of 7.9 on graphics. The 4850 was 7.3. Doesn't sound like much, but, like I said, the improvement was enough to take me from 1280x720 to 1920x1200. This was also due in part to the increase of RAM from 512MB GDDR3 on the 4850 to 1024MB GDDR5 on the 5850.
Even with possible competition from Nvidia coming this year (Fermi), I am very happy with this purchase. The price is not anticipated to drop more than $30 to $50 when Fermi hits anyway. As of today, Fermi will be shipping with fewer cores than anticipated (480 vs 512), so that launch may not have any impact on the Radeon 5000 line anyway.
The power draw on this is less than the 4850 as well. I have a PC Power & Cooling 750 PSU and it is plenty.
So, great card, good deal. You'll love it if you get it!

I am running an older Intel Quad-Core, Core 2 Duo @ 2.4GHz, with 4GB DDR2 RAM, and dual 150GB Raptors in RAID.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great card, but really big, June 17, 2010

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Luopo - See all my reviews

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After a couple of weeks of running this on Modern Warfare 2, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Left for Dead - both, and Star Trek Online, the card has worked great. It's fast and stays cool and doesn't get too hot or noisy.

I did have to get a larger power supply to handle the card, but they're cheap and easy to install. The card however does take up the size of two slots on the motherboard and I had a couple of transistors/something that stuck out and wouldn't let the card seat properly. Luckily the card's shroud had vents in that area and after snipping a few to open it up, the card finally fit. Then the tubes sticking out the side interfered with the placement of my second hard drive and it had to be moved. This was placed in a Dell Inspiron 530, a great desktop, but it's smaller form factor made it difficult to get the card in, so it wasn't the cards fault. So far I'm happy with the card!