Initially, things weren't looking so rosy. With 4GPUs, intermittent application errors and artifacts in 2D/3D turned up. Below you can see some of these on-screen quirks.

4xHD4850 delivered 12k in GPU Score despite predicted CPU bottlenecking. Attempting to shift the bottleneck, we tried the Extreme setting on 3DMark Vantage. After a minute's makeup session behind the red blinds, Jane Nash did not turn up in her full (voluptuous?) glamor and instead we were greeted by an error message.

Catalyst 8.6 did not seem to share the same enthusiasm we had for 4GPU ATi power. Since that was so, we had to move on with another test: the all so popular Crysis.

There didn't seemed much to a test we'd run all so often before, until we got down and dirty to actually playing with the spankin' new hardware.

Notice the polygonal to the left of the error window? Not nice at all! Even with a single HD4850, we are unable to benchmark at High settings. This ugly bug seems to have been overlooked in a couple of sites that have tested the HD4850. Simply put, Crysis results you will see in this article will be run at 2560x1600 on Medium settings.