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Box and bundle

The regular-sized Atomic box is pretty hard to miss. In fact, it would be the perfect thing to have with you if your plane happened to crash in a remote mountain range of the Andes. It is reflective and orange. 

The bundle is above average, and very complete. It includes a concise, medium-length paper manual, CyberLink DVD Suite software DVD, CyberLink PowerDVD software DVD, driver CD, a molex to 6-pin PCIE power adapter, a double molex to 8-pin PCIE power adapter, a S-video to composite adapter, a DVI to HDMI adapter, a VGA to DVI adapter, a HDTV cable, and best of all, a HDMI cable that is roughly 5.5ft long.

Overclocking

Sure, the Sapphire HD 4890 Atomic already has a heck of an overclock right out of the box. But that doesn't mean we should stop there, does it?

Being so heavily overclocked, it really wouldn't be fair to expect too much out of our efforts. However the Sapphire HD 4890 Atomic was able to sustain even a little bit more punishment.

With the fan running at 100%, the Atomic was able to run at 1060 / 1100 (core / memory), which is really good, considering how far it is has already pushed.

Video overclocking is often best suited for getting high-end performance out of mid-range cards. In the case of the Atomic, we don't recommend overclocking -- the added little performance advantage gained is, in our opinion, not worth the strain on your GPU or worth hearing the fan running full-force to keep things chill.