Graphics Cards Reviews for Speed

Sapphire HD 4870 X2 2GB PCI E Video Card

$565.00 Est. at Amazon

from Craig, www.newegg.com
have the proper case/case cooling this card runs nice and cool, with stock fan settings the card would idle around 40-43c under load the highest i got it to was 64c, not to bad for stock fan speeds.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
this card will utterly blow your mind away because it runs so fast...
from ditchhopper, www.newegg.com
the default fan speed just doesn't cut it.
from midlifecrisis, www.newegg.com
i can even overclock it with fan speed up 40% with no sweat.
from Brentley, www.newegg.com
i had problems with my pc randomly shutting down because the card, at stock fan speed, was running at 60c...

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Positives: Fast, Excellent Affordability, Quiet Operation, Installed Memory: 1 GB

ASUS 90-C3CGY0-L0UAY00T

$260.00 Est. at Amazon

from !NC!Blade, www.newegg.com
quiet at 40% fan speed, set it any higher and you will definately hear it.
from Elemino, www.newegg.com
keep in mind the card is running at stock speeds with no overclocking!quieter than the diamond 4890 i tested for a week prior.
from nplack, www.newegg.com
super fast turn around on the rma!
from HandleBike, www.newegg.com
pros: - fast.- good overclocking results.- voltage mod allows you to overclock higher than you would be able to normally.- i run games at 910/4400 mhz without having to mess with the voltage at all.-
from N/A, www.newegg.com
cons: the monitoring software that came with the video card slows my system down.

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Positives: Fast, Good Affordability, Quiet Operation, Installed Memory: 1 GB

MSI N250GTS-2D512-OC GeForce GTS 250

$159.00 Est. at Amazon

from Guitar Toadster, www.newegg.com
if you have an nvidia motherboard and install the performance aspect of the control panel then this card will drop it's speed way down to like 300 mhz while idle, further reducing temps, great if you
from Superdog, www.newegg.com
it now takes a few seconds for the sound to come back when i come out of a fast forward in media center; it didn't used to do that.i haven't used it for any games yet, but i can say that for playing
from Matt1980GTX, www.newegg.com
overclocked at 760mhz (core speed) and 2300mhz (memory speed), this card is basically like a 9800gtx+ oc.
from MyDecember, www.newegg.com
usually runs games 35-40+ fps 1080p cons: when i engage aa or as filtering, things start slowing down pretty bad.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
pros: factory overclocked, fairly fast, quiet under desktop, great memory chips rated for 1200mhz (2400mhz operation).

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Positives: Fast, Nice Performance, Good Affordability, Installed Memory: 512 MB

SAPPHIRE 100245L RADEON HD 4850

$388.00 Est. at Amazon

from Xeb, www.newegg.com
it is fast, not really huge, and plays all of my games at great frame rates (except for crysis, but i get around 40-50 with it) cons: dual slotcannot volt mod (my last one i did that to
from J.E. Brown, www.newegg.com
fortunately, this card now runs at or near stock 4870 speed at 1/2 the temperature or less.
from neo6, www.newegg.com
fast, and far better display quality than the on board ati 3xxx integrated graphic.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
most ppl get it running at full speed.
from Optjon, www.newegg.com
overclocks very well and stays cool, quiet fan relative to my cpu fan even at max speed (not that you need to run it at max speeds) the ccc (catalyst control center) is a pleasure to use.

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Positives: Good Affordability, Quiet Operation, Fast, Installed Memory: 512 MB

HIS H487F512P RADEON HD 4870 HDMI Dual DL-DVI HDCP 256bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 X16 Video Card...

$392.00 Est. at Amazon

from [RTW]KOkun, www.newegg.com
maybe it's just my card, or his' cards, but at only around 25% fan speed, my temps are just about the same as my 8600gt (around 40?c idle or not doing much) and when i turn up the fan speed while i
from alejandro, www.newegg.com
it's energy efficient so it runs the card at low speeds when you're in windows, but as soon as you fire up a game it revs up into full power mode and the clock speeds are the stock speeds listed
from N/A, www.newegg.com
becomes sketchy during most of the game.card bios constantly adjust the fan speed until os has booted.
from TLMS07, www.newegg.com
as others have said it runs a bit hot, but to mend that all you have to do is enable manual fan control and boost up the speed.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
with the catalyst controller i set the fan speed at 40% during idle and it stays cold!

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Positives: Quiet Operation, Fast, Good Affordability, Installed Memory: 512 MB

Pine Technology XFX GeForce GTS 250 DDR3 PCIE 738/2.2Ghz

$180.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
also, xfx's quick install guide could have a little more info in it, such as recommending that i uninstall my previous drivers before i switch out the cards, and tell me where the power connection is
from N/A, www.newegg.com
my games are much, much faster compared to my old geforce 9400gt 1gb on pci - yes pci :) cons: apparently i ordered it on the one day it didn't come with a free game.
from Socrates, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: my system is:msi-7093 mainboard1.9 ghz amd 64 3200+ single core1 gb ddr1 400 ramhec power-x 600w psumy processor speed is a little on the low side, haha.the graphics on games run
from Cory S, www.newegg.com
i've had a hard time finding a game that slows down on this card.
from Peter, www.newegg.com
with fps all in the 40's/50's with highest settings and 4x aa.runs fairly warm (65 c when intense gaming is going on) but with an oc program, and at 85% fan speed it stays around 50 c cons:

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Positives: Good Affordability, Quiet Operation, Easy To Install, Installed Memory: 512 MB

VisionTek RADEON HD4870

$264.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.bestbuy.com
what's great about it:?easy to install what's not so great:?fan speed needs 3rd party program "bottom line: this card performs quite well for the money.it performs quite well with world of warcraft
from www.bestbuy.com
what's great about it:?fast what's not so great:?hot and noisy "this card is almost perfect.
from www.bestbuy.com
what's great about it:?very fast card what's not so great:?no official drivers, runs really hot out of the box.
from www.bestbuy.com
but almost everything else doesn’t break 60c and it idles just below 50c at about 40% fan speed.
from www.bestbuy.com
what's great about it:?great bang for the buck what's not so great:?can get hot at low fan speeds "the guy below clearly doesn't know what he's talking about.

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Positives: Good Affordability, Great Performance, Quiet Operation, Installed Memory: 512 MB

Pine Technology

$137.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
quite powerful cons: pci-e power on card makes it suceptible to unfortunate accidents involvng a power supply blowing the card to hell :'( other thoughts: newegg has been super slow on
from N/A, www.newegg.com
reason i gave it a 4 star rating is because i had this card for about 6+ months the fan started to make a really fast and loud clicking noise....then it died cause the stock fan couldn't cool it...
from Josh, www.newegg.com
on games that are graphic intensive, the fan cranks up to full speed and it sounds like a mini leafblower.
from ntchicken, www.newegg.com
extremely fast card for the price.
from Adrian, www.newegg.com
at 47% fan speed, it idles at 42-44c!

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Positives: Fast, Installed Memory: 512 MB, Graphic Processor: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT, Display Interface: DVI-I (dual link) x 2

EVGA 02G-P3-1185-AR GeForce GTX 285 2GB 512-bit

$568.00 Est. at Amazon

from Mike, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: running this card in a system with an i7 (920, stock speeds) 12gb of corsair dominator (1600), off a raptor 10k drive, in windows 7rc.
from EVGA LOVER, www.newegg.com
i could probably afford to turn up the on-board fan but all that seems it would do would be to heat up my case faster.
from lang831, www.newegg.com
world at war looked amazing and ran so smoothly, two 20 inch monitors and not a glich thanks evga and thanks new egg for such quick shipping!!!
from Procyon DarkStar, www.newegg.com
with the included evga precision software you can adjust the fan speed.
from SnipeStar, www.newegg.com
not too much of a problem with the evga software to adjust fan speed, but make sure your case has adequate airflow/cooling.

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Positives: Fast, Nice Affordability, Great Software Controls, Installed Memory: 2 GB

MSI Geforce 9400GT

$60.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
as for speed, it's good enough to run most games.
from missyPC, www.newegg.com
i haven't played any games on it yet, but does all of my video rendering very well and fast.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
fan drops down in speed immediately after drivers installed.
from end user, www.newegg.com
technical support was very quick to respond within minutes.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
driver installation was fast, but drivers that come with are already out of date...used windows update to get a new driver after primary installation.

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Positives: Good Affordability, Easy To Install, Quiet Operation, Installed Memory: 512 MB

Pine Technology GX260NADFF 896 MB PCI Express

$323.00 Est. at Amazon

from eagle, www.newegg.com
it looks just like the pic on here just no back plate and it is the 216 core,been a great card,see things in cod waw i never knew were there with my old 8500gt.very fast card cons: none
from Kendall Hirata, www.newegg.com
but still this card is totally worth getting just because of the new core 216, i am actually able to oc it to speeds about 7% slower than the gtx 285!
from crowheart, www.newegg.com
glad i got it before it jumped back up to $249 ($198+ $30 rebate = $168= dam* good deal)fast, very fast.
from mxthunder, www.newegg.com
the only reason a person may want the 55nm version is if they were going to put it under water.using riva tuner to control fan speed helps a lot with the temps, and makes it easy to overclock as well.
from Human, www.newegg.com
i currently have it at black edition speeds.runs very cool!

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Positives: Nice Affordability, Fast, Quiet Operation, Installed Memory: 896 MB

Pine Technology GEFORCE 9500GT PCIE

$105.00 Est. at Amazon

from The Budget Man, www.newegg.com
i just wanted a nice cheap card under the $100 price that would let me run c&c ro3 on low in the correct speeds (30fps).
from N/A, www.newegg.com
it was blazin fast in performance in gaming.got 70+ fps playin r6v and r6v2200 fps cs source.it plays everything smoothly.some people just think its slow its becuz of their cpu or memory
from TheChosenOne, www.newegg.com
do not order anything on a thursday night or friday if you want it there quick.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
there's a whole section in the quick install about the pci-e connectors, and there aren't any...
from Amigori, www.newegg.com
feels faster than recent ati cards i've used, r4650.doesn't require an additional power connector.

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Positives: Great Affordability, Fast, Quiet Operation, Installed Memory: 512 MB

SAPPHIRE Vapor-X RADEON HD 4870 2GB 256-bit GDDR5

$228.00 Est. at Amazon

from Dugn8r, www.newegg.com
i didn't know how much faster a card could make it!
from ryanjacoby2, www.newegg.com
i've never been one to let the card use its "auto" fan speed control, but with this card, it works flawlessly, i never have to adjust it even under hours of gta iv.
from NeoGuido, www.newegg.com
i actually have the fan set to run at 70% at all times and it still offers amazing cooling at those speeds.
from Stan, www.newegg.com
this card is quiet compaired to every other stock cooling i have tried, even when fan speeds up.
from ogi, www.newegg.com
pros: fast enough for the price range cons: get really hot over 100c starts freezing frames after 2 mins when gaming other thoughts: i sent it back for replacement hoping its just a bad

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Positives: Quiet Operation, Excellent Affordability, Easy To Install, Installed Memory: 2 GB

BFG Technologies GeForce GTX 285 OC Video Card

BFG Technologies BFG GeForce GTX 285 OC Video Card -, (1 GB) GDDR3, PCI Express 2.0, SLI Ready, (Dual Link) Dual DVI, HDT

$376.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
i have 2 of these cards in my system overclocked to 702 gpu, 1584 shader and 2646 memory just like the fastest evga card and everything runs smooth except lotro but that game doesnt like overclocking
from Grantly, www.newegg.com
it's fast enough for now!
from mpg, www.newegg.com
this causes idle fan noise to be very low due to fan speed being lower.
from Dr Latency, www.newegg.com
very fast.
from brdempsey69, www.newegg.com
lower temps, quieter running, faster speeds.

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Positives: Quiet Operation, Nice Software Controls, Easy To Install, Installed Memory: 1 GB

SAPPHIRE 100248L RADEON HD 3850

$73.00 Est. at Amazon

from decripple, www.newegg.com
this card hasn't gotten above 50c in a case with just 2 low speed 120mm fans.
from supermortalhuman, www.newegg.com
it is fast and runs all of my games at the highest settings with minimal stutters or frame skips.
from snoobler, www.newegg.com
self-regulating fan speed based on demand.
from pezcore64, www.newegg.com
fan only operates at 25% on boot , which is to slow and actually can make the fan stop moving at all.
from the Irishman, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: fast shipping and good customer service.

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Positives: Nice Affordability, Easy To Install, Quiet Operation, Installed Memory: 512 MB

ATI HIS RADEON HD 4850 Video Card

$121.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
this 4850 is nearly 4 times faster than the 7600gt it replaced.good size.
from Siegeshot, www.newegg.com
very modifiable speed for memory and chip speed.
from Pete, www.newegg.com
speedstep and the like, where causing the crashes.
from tal, www.newegg.com
pros: good speedquite design cons: fan on heatsink dies after 4 months.
from Toeonly, www.newegg.com
pros: nice fast card stays cool in my case.

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Positives: Good Affordability, Quiet Operation, Easy To Install, Installed Memory: 512 MB

HIS H485QS1P RADEON HD 4850 IceQ4 HDMI Dual DL-DVI HDCP

$138.00 Est. at Amazon

from IAmGhostDog, www.newegg.com
it's never broke 60 ?c i use riva tuner for fan speed control and to monitor temps.
from MTBS, www.newegg.com
with oc this thing idles at 42c and under load at 58c with auto fan settings not getting above 20% speed.
from Mixenitup, www.newegg.com
and in some cases you may notice the 512mb to be a bit faster due to the slightly lower mhz between the two.
from AMD4Life, www.newegg.com
clocks are set outrageously slow, but a pushed them a little higher.
from Drakes, www.newegg.com
good sharp graphics, no crashes, fast, 1gb mem.

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Positives: Quiet Operation, Good Affordability, Fast, Installed Memory: 1 GB

BFG Technologies Tech BFGEGTX2801024OCXE GeForce GTX 280

BFG Technologies BFG Tech BFGEGTX2801024OCXE GeForce GTX 280, (1 GB) 512-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Sup... Video Card

$285.00 Est. at Amazon

from Genison, www.newegg.com
i'm sure the 4870x2 is faster, but this is a single card solution.
from Woots, www.newegg.com
this thing idles for me at 43 degrees c @45% fan speed.
from Metrobus, www.newegg.com
while i almost went with a 260 model for the price, the 100 bucks was worth the extra 15-20fps because even if there is slowdown, you can still follow on with the action.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
pros: lightning quick, clean look, and runs smooth/quiet.
from MPBORNTOKILL, www.newegg.com
just upgrade your mobo to a 790i ultra and you will see the true speed of your old video card.

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Positives: Fast, Good Affordability, Quiet Operation, Installed Memory: 1 GB

SAPPHIRE 100253DDR3L RADEON HD 4650

$63.00 Est. at Amazon

from Brian, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: somewhat whiny fan at higher speeds.20% : nearly silent, 33-50%: barely audible, 66%: slightly audible during media playback, 80-100% audible.anything under 66% is perfectly
from ron, www.newegg.com
but like i said seemed like it was just a fluke and it died quickly.
from iamsoldats, www.newegg.com
it's just as fast as my old hd 3870 for only 50 bucks!
from N/A, www.newegg.com
not the fastest card on the planet, but very solid for $50 (much better than ddr2-based 4650s).
from Mickane, www.newegg.com
gddr3 memory is faster than gddr2 (not the biggest issue, but a plus).

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Positives: Quiet Operation, Good Affordability, Excellent Performance, Installed Memory: 512 MB

SAPPHIRE 100245HDMI RADEON HD 4850

$131.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
i can't get the core speed much higher than 700 mhz using other oc programs but given how well the card performs i'm not really interested it pushing it any further for now.
from Thiago, www.newegg.com
oh yeah, it had free shipping too.i'm yet to find a card like this at that price point i paid for.performance: it rivals my gtx 260 in most games, but it's not faster (of course not), specially at
from jupson, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: i was getting tired of the slow and hot 8600gts that came with my dell vostro 400, so i swapped out the power supply with a corsair 450w and teamed it with this card.
from Krazy14h, www.newegg.com
just to be safe, i unlocked the ccc and set the fan speed to 100% cause the extra noise doesn't bother me at all, and i can barely tell it's there, even while there's nothing coming out of the
from N/A, www.newegg.com
far cry 2 runs very smooth at 1440x900 with all the settings on very high or ultra high.shipped fast, fits easily in the computer (not too bulky), runs cool & quiet.

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Positives: Quiet Operation, Nice Affordability, Excellent Performance, Installed Memory: 512 MB

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Sapphire HD 4870 X2 2GB PCI E Video Card

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MSI N250GTS-2D512-OC GeForce GTS 250

SAPPHIRE 100245L RADEON HD 4850

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VisionTek RADEON HD4870

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EVGA 02G-P3-1185-AR GeForce GTX 285 2GB 512-bit

MSI Geforce 9400GT

Pine Technology GX260NADFF 896 MB PCI Express

Pine Technology GEFORCE 9500GT PCIE

SAPPHIRE Vapor-X RADEON HD 4870 2GB 256-bit GDDR5

BFG Technologies GeForce GTX 285 OC Video Card

SAPPHIRE 100248L RADEON HD 3850

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HIS H485QS1P RADEON HD 4850 IceQ4 HDMI Dual DL-DVI HDCP

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