Hands-on: Palit Radeon HD 4850 Sonic Graphics Card

This is the Palit Radeon HD 4850 Sonic graphics card with some ramped up clock speeds; it’s a nice HD 4850 with a decent aftermarket cooler and a high clock speed. If only Palit did a bit more with the memory clock, there’s no doubt it would have been able to shine a bit brighter.

Tweak Town have given this graphics a 18 page hands-on review, and in their final thoughts they said “There’s no doubt that we’re going to see more and more HD 4850s with aftermarket cooling hit the market. The Palit is a nice little option that comes with a decent cooler, which helps keeps temps down whilst offering a decent overclock on the core.

We don’t doubt performance could have been better. With other brands seeing as high as 2200MHz DDR on the memory, Palit have chosen to keep things more conservative this time around, leaving the memory at an even 2000MHz DDR, which results in a very small overclock.

The good thing about Palit is the aggressive pricing, which means you can actually get your hands on one of these cards for similar prices, or sometimes cheaper than what some brands charge for the stock model, which makes it quite an attractive purchase.

Overall, the card gives us a nice little boost in performance while also managing to keep those pesky temps at bay when compared to what the stock cooler does. We would have liked to have seen a bit more done with the memory clock, though, to help it stand out a little bit more in the performance department”

Read the 18 page review.