Best Midrange PCI Graphics card worth of investing December 2008

By far the best card manufactured by ATI is RADEON 4850.ITs unparallel performance peak in the mid range sector is still not undone by mighty nvidia.We still see HD 4850 priced around 150 USD but it offers the performance of 300 USD+ cards on market.In the recent catalyst driver update ATI has added some extra features that would greatly enhance its performance.So if you are worried about choosing ATI Radeon 4850 or NVIDIA 9600, close your eyes and go for ATI 4850.It will give you direct x 10.1 support as well as many advantages over 9600 Nvidia cards as the later seems to be a remake of world rocker 8800GT .If you are the one capable of spending more than 150 USD you can consider GTX 200 series from Nvidia and ATI 4870,which again is very tough! If you are a extreme gamer , go for such midrange cards .Whereas if u never play games, these cards do very little for you.Obviously they will enhance your entertainment and graphics but you can get such cards which were not designed to play games but to offer descent graphics performance for less than 70 USD.Features of the midrange winner RADEON HD 4850 are listed below


Radeon HD 4850
Codename:
RV770
Process:
55 nm
Universal Shaders:
800
Texture Units:
40
ROPs:
16
Memory Bus:
256-bit
Core Speed MHz:
625
Memory Speed MHz:
993 (1,986 effective)
DirectX / Shader Model
DX 10.1 / SM 4.0
GRab this card which when used in crossfire configurations can give you mind blowing gaming experience.I hope many would have liked this article.