With the ATi HD4850 displaying so many quirks in our tests, many of you must be expecting the product to be slammed down the depths of Hell and banished to the Zone's bin. Many of you may too wonder, why VR-Zone's testing seem to be choppy seas to the Little Red Raft when a great other review sites have their HD4850s successfully complete the plethora of tests. The reason is simple: we test the HD4850 in a variety of situations that you, as an hardware enthusiast, is likely to put the hardware through. Best part of the story? ATi will continue to support the HD4850 with new drivers along the way to iron out bugs and stabilize the product.

Many of you may remember, back in the AGP days, how every Catalyst revision meant a performance boost. It happened with the X800s, and later PCIe graphics accelerators. Things got better in the past, and the same should, (and I trust), would happen today.

For USD199, expect some fantastic performance out-of-the-box, taking up a single slot, and better compatibility in the days ahead. Not too bad a bargain if you asked me. At the end of the day, for the single card budget gamer out there, this might just be the card for you, forget about that 9800GTX+!