Packaging:
The Sapphire 512MB Toxic Radeon HD4850 is sold in the rather compact, black box shown in the images below. The front and back panels provide information regarding what the card is capable of and what is included in the bundle, and the graphics remind me of the Robert Patrick T-1000 character from the Terminator. Maybe Sapphire is pumped about the Sarah Connor Chronicles on Fox, too!
The Basics:
Every
Sapphire card I have reviewed has been sealed in a padded anti-static bag with a big stop sign printed on it to remind you to connect the PCI Express power cables to the card prior to use. This model takes things one step further with a second label, and I honestly hope people weren't somehow missing the first one!
The card sports a blue PCB like many others from Sapphire, but in lieu of a more traditional single slot blower style cooler, this one is matched up with an aftermarket cooler from Zalman. Zalman makes some incredible cooling products, and the Toxic Radeon HD4850 gets a nice heatpipe GPU cooler, as well as a set of matching heatsinks to cover every memory chip.
The front of the card seems to have a good deal of open real estate, which I guess would generally be concealed by a more traditional single slot cooler. The back of the card is shown in the below right image, and while there aren't any particularly interesting features found here, the two tabs for CrossFire X can be seen in the upper right corner.
