Radeon HD 3870 and HD 3850 On The Horizon, The Dark Side is POWERFUL . come join
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 Nov 7 2007, 01:35 AM
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QUOTE(bst dude @ Nov 7 2007, 01:21 AM) drop to ly today,a source from czone said next week sapphire 3870 coming with tag price around rm 1100.00 will the 3870 pawn 88gt ?  if it doesn't, then 88gt will still be the gamers choice at that price ...1.1k doesn't seem cheap to me ... |
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Nov 7 2007, 01:45 AM
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QUOTE The HD 3850 will exist primarily as a 256MB part, while the 3870 will bring 512MB to the table. Some 3850 parts may come with 512MB and some 3870 parts with 1GB of memory -for 20 and 50 USD/EUR above current asking price. Pricing for both launch parts is very aggressive, and AMD claims it is all due to 55nm process working like a clockwork and achieving excellent yields. Radeon HD 3850 should retail for between $149 to 179 (USD), while 3870 should be between 200 to 230. This is brilliant pricing, going way below 8800GT. so, that turns out to be around RM525-626 for the HD3850 and RM700-805 for the HD3870 ?    any clue how these two fair with 8800gt? This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Nov 7 2007, 02:10 AM |
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Nov 13 2007, 08:02 PM
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woOt ... few ppl alrdy got their hands on those two alrdy ...
:: thinking :: 88gt or 3850 or 3870 .... price-performance balance will get my money... yay! This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Nov 13 2007, 08:06 PM |
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Nov 22 2007, 01:32 PM
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which brand of 3850 is worth to buy?
seems like the sapphire is good ... any other better choice? This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Nov 22 2007, 01:33 PM |
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Dec 4 2007, 12:00 PM
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QUOTE(Radeon @ Dec 4 2007, 10:22 AM) are you sure 29xt -> 88gt is considered an upgrade at all? yeah, that might not be a 'noticable' upgrade lah .. but the power consumption decrease should be noticeable .. |
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Dec 22 2007, 07:41 PM
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for a HD3850 256mb, which one should I go for?
Sapphire or PowerColor ? |
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Dec 22 2007, 08:10 PM
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i saw one shop in penang selling sapphire 3850 256mb for RM635 & powercolor for RM619 ..
considered cheap compared to lowyat or not? seems cheap to me any ideas? |
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Dec 22 2007, 08:23 PM
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damn ... thats cheap ... unfortunately there's no way to find cheap prices like that in penang ...it's always slightly more expensive than kl areas
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Dec 24 2007, 02:56 PM
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has anybody here posted benchies of sapphire 3850 on a c2d e4300/2140/2160 proc?
i'm using e4300 oc'ed to 3ghz ...just wondering how is the performance like on my pc ... getting a 3850 soon  This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Dec 24 2007, 02:57 PM |
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Dec 24 2007, 04:38 PM
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me too ...waiting for my 3850, can't wait alrdy ..maybe tomolo can get
yippie! This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Dec 24 2007, 04:38 PM |
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Dec 24 2007, 05:21 PM
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avivo feature can do vid conversion right?
has anybody tried the ati avivo encoder on 3800 series? (err.. does it have encoding support?) is the encoding quality good & fast? This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Dec 27 2007, 12:20 AM |
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Dec 26 2007, 10:13 AM
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just got my sapphire 3850 today ..gonna try it tonite ..
btw, is getting a 19" lcd with 1440x900 reso a good idea to pair it with this 3850 ? i don't plan to game at 1600x1200 anyway. the card should support 1440x900 right? |
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Dec 26 2007, 10:57 AM
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sadly ... i just got my 3850, but this morning my trusty 17" 3yr old samsung lcd died ... it can't power on
(maybe the inverter/transformer inside burnt or something) coz i had just spent some money on 3850 .. cant afford to get 20" lcds laa* as of now, have to game on my 32" lcdtv then ..  This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Dec 26 2007, 11:00 AM |
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Dec 26 2007, 03:15 PM
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QUOTE(scph50004 @ Dec 26 2007, 12:05 AM) btw wanna ask something about the HD3850's temp again. I changed the fan speed from 60% to auto in riva tuner, but it seems that the fan speed never changed even though the temperature reached a certain value(ie I set 60% for 70 celcius, but the fan still not spinning at 60%) . What did I do wrong? what's ur current temp at load/idle?sounds like the 'bug' problem happening on 3850 reference coolers .. (someone posted about it before) from guru3d : http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/472/8/ QUOTE We discovered what we think is a bug in the RV3850 samples. We where curious about the high (90c) temperatures these cards produce (very likely a reference issue thus all boards have this high temperature). When we applied another cooler on the cards, the temperatures went down instantly which made me investigate. I'll make a long story short, when heat builds up in the GPU the fan RPM should throttle up depending the temperature (fan speed throttling), this does not work on the reference coolers at all. Now either AMD disabled the feature to preserve noise levels, or this is a bug in the BIOS. We can force the throttling manually with our own Rivatuner, forcing it at 60% (still very silent) will keep the temp below 65 degrees C. how to fix this eh? i dunno if my sapphire 3850 also have this prob later  just manually fix the fan to 60-70% will do? This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Dec 26 2007, 04:08 PM |
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Dec 26 2007, 05:06 PM
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88gts 320mb to 3870 consider downgrade ah? ...
that should be upgrade already ... This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Dec 26 2007, 05:07 PM |
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Dec 26 2007, 07:51 PM
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which rivatuner version is good for hd3850?
is rivatuner 2.06 ok? i'm using the latest ati driver catalyst 7.12 This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Dec 26 2007, 07:52 PM |
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Dec 26 2007, 10:32 PM
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wow ...i'm quite happy with my 3850 ..
cant believe my eyes, my rig of c2d e4300 @ 3ghz & 1gig ram can actually play crysis too ..  max temp with 60% fan is 77'c and idle is 48'c my gfx settings : all medium, 1280x1024, 2AA |
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Dec 27 2007, 12:26 AM
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i can't run my 3dmark06 supplied together with the card ..
currently using catalyst 7.12. any tips for me? * already applied the patch for 3d06 from sapphire's website .. This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Dec 27 2007, 12:26 AM |
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Dec 27 2007, 11:16 AM
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try throttling ur fan manually. do u set ur fan to be auto speed? i just let my 3850 fan to be fixed at 60% ... not much noise was heard and the temp at idle is 48'c while at load is 77'c (i use rivatuner 2.06) This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Dec 27 2007, 11:21 AM |
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Dec 28 2007, 02:03 AM
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QUOTE(smokey @ Dec 26 2007, 11:01 PM) u should play high la... bro, i play in dx10 mode la ...did u play urs on dx10 or not?my e4300 @ 2ghz and 8600gt also can play 1024*768 medium... my HD3850 and my rig can't be push to high settings in crysis ... with all settings high, i get about 13-15 fps only .. at medium settings, it's around 25-30 fps i'm better off with medium settings and the game is quite playable .. ** playing crysis with 1280x1024, DX10, 2AA, all medium settings ... This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Dec 28 2007, 02:14 AM |
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