I bought this card last August 2009. I needed to replace my HD 4850 because i snapped off one of the voltage regulators while attempting to pry off a heatsink. Oh well! this gave me a reason to buy my new toy lol. I paid $247 CAD including taxes. This is treading on the limit of what i call an affordable price for a video card.

The main reason i wanted the HD 4890 was because I had read about the fact that it comes equipped with dual Volterra VT1165 voltage regulator chips. This would allow me to easily increase core & memory voltages to help in overclocking the card. But as I found out later XFX decided to rain on that parade. More on this later.

This is the box the card came in and it was smaller than I was expecting. The front cover shows a few specs. The left side describes Avivo & the Catalyst suite. The right hand side of the box describes all the system requirements in order to be able to use the card, and items included in the box. This card did include a copy of the DirectX 10.1 game H.A.W.X. so that was cool. On the back of the box it describes the key features of the card and touts XFX's 5 STAR support.

The first pic below shows the: XFX door hanger, the 2x installation guides, the driver disk the H.A.W.X. cd and the packaged card. The second pic shows the: Cross Fire bridge, 2x 6pin to 4pin power cables, VGA to DVI adapter, DVI to HDMI adapter and the HDTV component out cable. This card is HDCP ready and HDMI compliant, hence you can view Blu-Ray discs with it.

Now onto the card itself...

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Table of contents
Introduction
The Card
Game Benchmarks
Synthetic Benchmarks
Overclocking
Conclusion

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