Hmmmm... not sure how truth was this...

http://www.techpowerup.com/?45142

I guess everyone will be preparing for the x'mas present

Hmmm, friend told me that he saw lowyat selling SAPPHIRE 3850 256MB at RM599 for this week. Said was promotion.... hope the price drop lower after the announcement for the price slash is truth. Hehe then can consider the 3850 512MB with heatpipe!!!!

need some advice from 3850 owner here, how was the noise level that produce by the stock 3850? wanted to get a silent system... was thinking should i go for active or passive cooling version of 3850... beside, was it very hot via stock cooling fan? I mean no OC.

Thanks for your info, will see how much diff between the active and passive version of 3850 in term of price

I'm just wondering, is it very significant diff between the 3850 256MB VS 512MB in term of performance and future game support? I understand for higher resolution, the 512MB will be better, but let said I'll only kept it under 1440*900?
Beside, using a 19" wide screen shouldn't be able to set higher resolution, will the 256MB version good enough for gaming?

Hmm, something interesting. But not sure how true was it.

http://www.kkk.com.ua/?p=245

Did anyone ever had any comparison between PCIE 1.0 vs 2.0 on 3850?

I thought after PC fair all the while the Sapphire 3560 256MB was selling @590 ??

Yeah, kinda expensive if compare to normal mobo. But you could find Biostar or Asus mobo that have PCIE 2.0 around RM320-380. So after all, could be extra RM40-60 which was still considerable for mainstream usage

guys, check this out

http://en.expreview.com/?p=90

will be cool if you are going for noiseless system

But again, that was only DDR3 memory...

nope, there is one from HIS comes with blue PCB.

I thought was RM590?? Unless you are referring to 512MB modal.

I think the price was saturated among the LY shops.... which majority of them selling less than RM600. Hehe, you may get lower price if you are lucky

Yeah friend, better don't start the same old topic again....

anyone have seen the comparison between gecube 3850 (dual slot version) compare with HIS IceQ 3850 also the Gigabyte 3850 (Zalman fan). In term of noise and heat, which one was better?

Wanted to get a cool and low temperature to reduce the noise produce by pc

wow... read some new info.... sorry that I only found the chinese sites.

Look at the heat level.... but strange that the gigabyte HD3850 only have 1.4GHz memory speed.... so was wondering the performance wise as compare to ATI reference card.

http://diy.yesky.com/vga/47/7742547_6.shtml

put asus top version in the comparison as well

http://diy.yesky.com/vga/350/7736850_6.shtml

seems like gigabyte doing a good job on selecting the zalman fan.

This post has been edited by cvshi515: Dec 29 2007, 02:43 AM

haha ugly or not doesn't matter as long as it can freeze the card is good enough.

Should have check out this one as well

http://www.giga-byte.com/Products/VGA/Prod...?ProductID=2735

haha, honestly, the design wise. I totally agree with you, the ICEQ looks so cool!!!! But gigabyte did put some effort on these Zalman version where it used some low power losses component where you can see on the previous link i sent. Where your system will run cooler and more stable due to less power draw from your PSU.

Also, in overall, I did some reading for HD3850 Iceq where the full temperature was around 65-75++ can't really remember which was about 10'C coller than the reference card. But the gigabyte version did manage to cool the card down to 53'C at full load. This was referring to HD3850, so not too sure it was the same case for HD3870.

http://diy.yesky.com/vga/47/7742547_6.shtml

But sure one advantages on Iceq was that, it can act as a cooler blower fan that exhaust big part of the hot air in your chassis, but this can be done by the normal blower fan where some of our friend here did it anyway.

No hard feeling, this is just my thought cooler was more important than the look for me.

No worries mate, thats why everyone is here beside, the Iceq 3870 might need another two or further in order for it to be available in market. Even the Iceq 3850 was still a question if you looking for it at lowyat.. is been about two weeks never been there, not sure whether it was available now. Or you can look around in the garage sales, some of them might know the estimated date for this baby to be born.

not sure they will launch Iceq turbo edition 3870 or not.