For mainstream gaming the previous generation mainstream products can run most games smoothly with 1440*900 resolutions, but clinching a Gainward HD4850 graphics cards will give you access to play most of the games on 1680*1050 resolutions or higher, it can also open Anti-Aliasing to make images become smoother but still maintain the performance close to original setting.
Gainward HD4850 supports dual link DVI output resolution reachable up to 2560*1600, the mainstream CRT (via the DVI-to-D-Sub dongle) are supported by HD4850 as well. Gainward HD4850 is a HDCP compliant and supports ATI AVIVO HD and H.264 decoding to enjoy the ultimate Blu-ray and HD-DVD movie experience. Presides a thundering gaming experience, it also supports a HD video quality to compete all last generation products.
Gainward debuts Radeon HD 4850 Golden Sample
Posted on Saturday, August 16 2008 @ 0:05 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Gainward released a Golden Sample edition of the Radeon HD 4850 graphics card. This overclocked model features a 700MHz RV770 GPU and 512MB GDDR3 memory clocked at 2200MHz. That's a 75MHz overclock on the core and a 214MHz gain on the memory.