WHAT Brand , Company Best ATI 4850 help

I'd personally go for the MSI. I've got a sapphire 3850 that runs quite well, and I bought it after the Power Color 3850 arrived with bad memory. I don't have any experience with HIS, but their cards tend to run slightly higher in price from what I've seen.

I'm just chiming in here, but strangely enough, I rarely ever see bad reviews of any ATi products from any company. With Nvidia, you see a lot more...at least that's what I have noticed.

I have been using MSI products for a little while now, I really like them. Good support. I'm really leaning towards buying a 4850 today as well, and right now, though I'm leaning towards the Powercolor or Diamond card.

i would probably go msi as well. i never had one of their ati cards, but i did have one of their nvidia cards. plus that msi 4850 comes with the witcher bundle from newegg.

the only ati card i had was the 9600pro aiw made by ati themselves.

Ouch, that sucks. I guess you live in a state where a Newegg distributor is, huh.

I prefer MSI products over anybody else, but unfortunatly my current rig does not consist of an MSI product. And my 2 4850's on the way are Sapphire's, FX did not have the MSI ones up yet. Im currently trying to contact Sapphire about their Vapor-X cooler on these cards, but I could be waiting a while as ive heard Sapphire customer service is non-existant. I might actually not open these cards and sell them for MSI ones.

As far as HIS goes, I would avoid them like the plague. Ive had a HIS 2900XT and a 2600XT crap on me. The 2900XT was by far the worse case of bad card that ive personally seen, it was so bad there was video corruption in the damn BIOS and boot up.

Personally I'm not buying Sapphire again, their cooling solution for the X1950 Pro I bought simply sucks and my older Sapphire 9600 Pro started artifacting on me just a few months after I bought it. Their support was useless.

So my 4870 will either be an MSI or Visiontek, probably MSI.

MSI or HIS.
Sapphire if I'd want to save some cash.

I'm suprised at all the MSI supporters! I been running sapphire for 10 years.

Im also looking at buying a 4850 and my Mobo is an MSI....perhaps a change is coming!

good thread!

Ive been using Sapphires for a decent amount of time. 2 x 9600 , 1 X800 , X1650 and now 1 4850. So far all working as we speak. The 2 9600 are in my llitle bro and mother PCs.

As for MSI, i had 2 mobos from them and i only can say they are pretty good, although 1 broke, after 4 years of 365/24/7 continuous and Overclocked. Bad Caps, like all in those days.

I can recommend both brands i guess. I still don't know what MSI or Sapphire Customer Support is like. Never phoned.

Nice story "xringx" heheh