Club 3D HD 3850 Overclocked Edition - A luxurious enthustiast card for low budgets

[Mungri]

Hi, I thought I'd write up a review on this amazing pair of cards I got today. They are overclocked 3850's with 720/1800 clocks, and were purchased for just £72 each (£154 inc delivery).


I'll start of with the box itself. Club 3D have simply done an amazing job packaging these cards. The overall presentation is extremely luxurios, elegant, and sleek, yet very minimalistic. They pretty much put every other piece of hardware I have bought and my Apple IPOD to great shame :


The two boxes:







And the box-inside-a-box boxes XD





The presentation of these cards from the minute you open the box right untill installation is absolutely amazing. Unfortunately my lame pictures dont do this packaging enough justice. It simply felt amazing just looking at, and slowly opening these boxes, far better then any christmas pressant has ever been


Then we have the cards themselves, wonderful heatsink fan, and unlike the similar model of this this card made by Powercolor, the Club 3D's are also equipped with heatspreaders on the ram modules:













And the boxed contents:





Installation for me personally was a little tricky as the cards were much longer then my previous ones I have had, but I managed to fit them in by moving one of my hard drives up. But if you have a decent modern case that is better then mine, you should have no problems:







Sorry for the blurry pics, im not too good with cameras XD

You should be able to make out the orange light on the top card. Each card is illuminated by an orange led which reflects off the shiny copper heatsinks very nicely. It makes me wish I could replace my blue case lights with orang ones now lol.


And heres the overclocking result, I have only overclocked them using CCC so far as rivatuner was a little dodgy with crossfire, I think I just have to reinstall it or get a newer version to clock them higher:





They were fully stable without a single artifact at 770/1900 clock and ram speeds. The hottest one GPU got was to 58 degrees, while the other never went over 50 degrees.


Now for people that have already read about the powercolor variants of this card, you may have been put off by people saying how noisy it was. But let me make this completely clear - Both of these Club 3D cards are in fact 100% SILENT!!! I cannot hear them over my silent case fans or any other noise, in fact I found my PC quieter with my old Triplex 3870 gone and with these two 3850's installed.


These are quite simply the best graphics cards I have ever bought for the money, at just £72 each for this kind of an enthuiast card with top grade packaging, there can be no faulting them, and right now they have to be the best price / performance cards available on the market, providing that you can grab them at around £70 each :p


Thouroghly impressed with these beauties, they are highly reccommeded and I suggest that if you need a cheap upgrade from an older card, you go for one or even two of these now while they are available for such a low price.


Unbelievable, unbeatable value and quality. Thanks for reading