ATI HD 3800 Review Thread

[Mike EFix]

BTW 7.11 are officially out now

[Unbornchild]

I don't care enough about 3DMark benches... real and stunning gaming results i want to see.
And for superb and fluid Crysis 1600/1200 @ ultramax i'm afraid 3870CF isn't enough, you'd need 4 of these, or two of the upcoming X2's...?

Last game i bought was Stalker, runs VERY fine on my X1900XT512. For my upgrade Q1 2008 i'd like to be comfortably prepared for all these new heavy DX10 games.

[mascaras]

I don't care enough about 3DMark benches... real and stunning gaming results i want to see.
And for superb and fluid Crysis 1600/1200 @ ultramax i'm afraid 3870CF isn't enough, you'd need 4 of these, or two of the upcoming X2's...?

I think Hd3870 CF and Crysis Very high @ 1600x1200 = playble

[Lugburz]

I think Hd3870 CF and Crysis Very high @ 1600x1200 = playble

I really hope so

I´ll grab two of these as soon as they are available in PT.

[mascaras]

I really hope so

I´ll grab two of these as soon as they are available in PT.

hi m8 , i also ordered two of them

(vamos ter que esperar mais uns dias os morcoes agarraram as poucas que xegaram )

[Lugburz]

hi m8 , i also ordered two of them

(vamos ter que esperar mais uns dias os morcoes agarraram as poucas que xegaram )

Porra!
I have 2 DuOrb cooler for them already

[mascaras]

ATI Set to Launch Offensive with ATI Radeon HD 3000 Pricing.
ATI Radeon HD 3000 Has Enough Pricing Flexibility – Sources

ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, may lower the pricing of its ATI Radeon HD 3000-series graphics processing units (GPUs) in weeks after the introduction in an attempt to recapture the lost market share from the No. 1 discrete GPU supplier Nvidia Corp. The decision will allow add-in board manufacturers to decrease the prices to end-users.

“Two weeks after the launch, the ATI RV670 drops the price,” a source familiar with the matter told X-bit labs.

The ATI Radeon HD 3850 with 256MB of GDDR3 memory begins at $179 manufactured suggested retail price (MSRP) and the ATI Radeon HD 3870 with 512MB GDDR4 memory from $219 MSRP, available from AMD’s selected graphics products partners. Unfortunately, not all suppliers of graphics cards could get the new boards on time from AMD.

Price reduction of the already not very expensive ATI Radeon HD 3800-series boards is likely to help AMD to capture attention of many end-users seeking for a new high-performance graphics cards for Christmas. Since the new lineup of graphics solutions support both DirectX 10.1 and high-definition video playback, the features demanded by end-users this year, the novelties truly have chances to become popular this holiday season.


http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...0_Pricing.html

[Soulburner]

I don't care enough about 3DMark benches... real and stunning gaming results i want to see.
And for superb and fluid Crysis 1600/1200 @ ultramax i'm afraid 3870CF isn't enough, you'd need 4 of these, or two of the upcoming X2's...?

Last game i bought was Stalker, runs VERY fine on my X1900XT512. For my upgrade Q1 2008 i'd like to be comfortably prepared for all these new heavy DX10 games.

Not going to happen.

Why?

Do you remember DX9? Far Cry, Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 ushered in the dawn of the DX9 age and at the time the best we had was FX5900 / 9800 series. We didn't have real capable cards for early DX9 until the X800 / 6800 series.

Gotta wait until the true next-gen high end comes.