Packaging and Accessories:
The Sapphire Radeon HD4830 512MB graphics card is sold in the compact box shown in the images below. The front and back panels provide some information regarding the card's features and specifications, and of course you do get the obligatory warrior princess kind of image.
 
Inside the box it is clear why it is so much smaller... The card is tucked into an anti-static bag for protection, but the typical foam frame found with other Sapphire cards has been left out. The card should be adequately protected by the padding in the bag, but it is able to move around just a bit.
 
The accessories included with the card are shown in the above right image. There is an installation guide, a driver CD, a case badge, an s-video to component adaptor, a DVI to VGA adaptor, a DVI to HDMI adaptor, an s-video to composite adaptor, and a 6-pin PCI Express power adaptor. Most of the items that Sapphire includes with their more expensive cards are found here, except for a few disks and a CrossFire bridge. I don't know how much cost a CrossFire bridge might add, but dropping Power DVD and 3DMark Vantage might have saved a few bucks.
The Basics:
My first impression of the card itself was that it looked a bit like the ASUS 9600GT reviewed here a few months ago due to the cooler. The Sapphire version has a small set of wings on the edge, but otherwise they are similar coolers. You can see that the cooler does have a copper core, and the overall design should allow for decent cooling at low noise, but the memory chips do not have heatsinks and the hot air is dumped back into the case. Even though the memory may not have dedicated cooling, the air from the GPU's fan does blow over every chip.
 
In the above left image we see a passive heatsink for MOSFET cooling just to the left of the GPU cooler. From the back side of the card (above right image) we see that there are two CrossFire tabs, meaning this thing would be ready for CrossFire X if only they had included a bridge!
The next image takes a look at the cooler from the side, where it looks rather tall. It is just a two slot solution, but because it only sticks up from the area around the GPU it might look taller.
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