ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series
The ATI Radeon HD 3800 series graphics cards are here. We will explore performance in Crysis, Unreal Tournament 3, NFS: Pro Street, and TimeShift. We can now recommend two ATI graphics cards for your gaming needs.
Publish Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:11:00 CST Read more...
The Radeon HD 3850 actually looks pretty good if you've only got 8600GTS/2600 XT kind of money. They're definitely slower than 8800GT's, but they should also be considerably cheaper too. I'm keeping an eye on he 3850, as it is supposed to hit at $180, as opposed to the $270 base price for 8800GT's. If DAAMIT can deliver in volume, they can steal away some people from Nvidia.
deject wrote:The Radeon HD 3850 actually looks pretty good if you've only got 8600GTS/2600 XT kind of money.
This is what I'm thinking. My brother wants to upgrade his PC for christmas and I've reccomended him 2gb of ram and a 3850 since it looks like this card will work fine on his 300w psu. This seems to be the best value card available atm, even better value than the 8800gt, although I'd still take the latter myself if I had the money
In terms of price/performance, it's pretty even with the 8800GT, it's just slower and cheaper. I'm still looking forthe one with 512MB of RAM because I don't want another 256MB card going forward.
You still not found anywhere with the oc'd 512 versions in stock?
Also, Lee, how many gigatittles of ram does your brother already have? If he has 1 already, tell him to get another one and a better psu instead of 2, a good psu is more future proof than a bit of ram, especially if he's running ddr1 stuff. And if he can afford it by foregoing stuff like shoes and food, to buy the GT instead, it's a very nice card.
HereComesPete wrote:Also, Lee, how many gigatittles of ram does your brother already have? If he has 1 already, tell him to get another one and a better psu instead of 2, a good psu is more future proof than a bit of ram, especially if he's running ddr1 stuff. And if he can afford it by foregoing stuff like shoes and food, to buy the GT instead, it's a very nice card.
It'll be my parents buying him the stuff so I have to find something cheapish yet good, they don't like the idea of spending loads of money on PC parts so I had to avoid stuff like the 8800gt.
Since 2gb of DDR2 costs next to nothing these days I doubt he'd get a decent PSU for the amount he'd save by buying 1gb instead and I have no idea if his PSU has standard fittings anyway, the one in my PC at least has a wierd non-standard connector. Easier just to keep the one he's got
Lee wrote:Since 2gb of DDR2 costs next to nothing these days I doubt he'd get a decent PSU for the amount he'd save by buying 1gb instead and I have no idea if his PSU has standard fittings anyway, the one in my PC at least has a wierd non-standard connector. Easier just to keep the one he's got
Looks alright on my x800xt, and runs well at mediumish settings at 1024.
I was playing the single player at 800x600 with low everything, and I think I was getting something like 20fps. Now it's butter smooth running at 1280x1024 4xAA, 4xAF, and high details on everything.
ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series
You still not found anywhere with the oc'd 512 versions in stock?
3870 == bought'd
