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- By David_W @Nov 15, 2007
ATI Avivo™ HD Video & Media
The ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series of GPUs allow you to
experience the power of HD with graphics processing designed for how you work
and play. The Diamond Radeon™ HD 3870 delivers outstanding performance at a
great price. Advance to the next generation of HD game performance and life-like
realism thanks to DirectX® 10.1 capabilities and plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX™
multi-GPU upgradeability. Watch the latest Blu-ray and HD-DVD videos in full
1080p HD and upscale beyond - without placing huge demands on your CPU. Enjoy
break-through efficiency with more processing performance per watt and
energy-saving features to help save you money™.
Superscale unified shader architecture
PCI Express 2.0 support
320 Unified Stream Processors
256-bit memory interface
Direct X 10.1 / Shader Model 4.1 / OpenGL 2.0
ATI Crossfire X Multi-GPU Support for highly scalable performance
Up to four GPU support with an AMD 790FX based motherboard
Built-in HDMI with Multi-channel 5.1 surround audio
Support for the ATI Radeon DVI to HDMI adapter
Unified Video Decoder (UVD) for Blu-ray and HD DVD
ATI PowerPlay energy conserving technology
RoHS compliant
Build in HDCP Support
Windows Vista™ 3D environment Support
Optimized for Windows
Vista™ with comprehensive DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 9 support
ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Technology
Built-in HDMI with Multi-channel 5.1 surround audio
Two Dual Link DVI with full resolution HDCP support
HD video playback
Full 30-bit display processing
CATALYST Software Drivers
Windows Vista™ 3D environment Support
Support ATI Radeon™ DVI-I to HDMI adapter
Specifications
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General Information
Brand Name:
Diamond
Manufacturer:
Diamond Multimedia, USA
Manufacturer Part Number:
3870PE4512SB
Marketing Information:
The ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series of GPUs allow you to experience the power of HD with graphics processing designed for how you work and play. The Diamond Radeon HD 3870 delivers outstanding performance at a great price. Advance to the next generation of HD game performance and life-like realism thanks to DirectX 10.1 capabilities and plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU upgradeability. Watch the latest Blu-ray and HD-DVD videos in full 1080p HD and upscale beyond - without placing huge demands on your CPU. Enjoy break-through efficiency with more processing performance per watt and energy-saving features to help save you money.
Product Line:
Viper
Product Name:
Viper Radeon HD 3870 Graphics Card
Product Series:
HD 3800
Product Type:
Graphics Card
Interfaces/Ports
Interfaces/Ports:
2 x DVI Dual Link DVI
1 x HDTV Out
Memory
Bus Width:
256bit
Memory Technology:
GDDR4 SDRAM
Standard Memory:
512MB
Miscellaneous
Additional Information:
PCI Express 2.0 support
RoHS Compliant
Superscale unified shader architecture
Up to four GPU support with an AMD 790FX based motherboard
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Overall TweakTown Rating: 91%
"The Bottom Line: It's a good performing graphics card with a lot of great features! Give it a few drivers updates and we should have a fantastic performing product with those same great features."
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Rated by obsim, September 27, 2008
I bought this for a client's system thinking that this would be the best bet for what they needed. I built their system around an ASUS P5QL Pro motherboard, Intel Core 2 Duo E8200, 4 GB PC2-6400 RAM and Antec Sonata III. The build went well, however after one week, the system would not boot. I was forced to re-flash the BIOS just to get it to POST again. The culprit seemed to be an issue with the BIOS not playing well with card (which I have since discovered is a known issue). Once I was able to boot into Windows again, the video drivers were very flaky. I was getting pixelation and random blue screen errors as well as random reboots. I tried three various iterations of drivers until I finally found one that seemed to work and I then benchmarked the system for 12 hours. This seemed to work and there were no further failures. I would purchase again as it performed well once all the issues were ironed out, however, it seems as though drivers are a little bit flaky. (I had heard about bad drivers with ATI cards before but had never experienced it with any of my cards).
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Rated by Ian_P, May 15, 2008
The only thing better than this card is two of them. Sold my first one so I could pick up newer heatsink ver. Have one more on order. Plays on 3200 MB/AMD 6000/ 4 gigs XFire OCZ6400/ P&C 750 XFire PS. SM245tu1900x1200 for nice vis. All Games set at max or very close. Decided this route as X2 cards are either gddr3 with pci2.0 or gddr4 with pci1.0. This card is gddr4 AND pci2.0. Why buy last years tech even if it is on a new card?
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Rated by Igor_D, May 4, 2008
This was my first top of the line video card purchase, and I love it. Being able to play Team Fortress 2 on 1680x1050 on highest settings possible with x8 AA and x16AF feels like you are in one awesome pixar cartoon. Handles any UT3 engine game easily.
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Rated by Jean-Michel_S, April 30, 2008
I bought this card the week it has been released, it has being working fine since then, not problem at all.
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Rated by tiguy, April 16, 2008
(la carte n'est pas identique a la photos)
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Rated by RT1, March 23, 2008
Before I purchased this card, I did at lot research. I wanted a great card at the best price possible. I narrowed my choice down to one of three cards....the NVidia 8800GT and 9600GT and also the Diamond Radeon HD 3870. I initially decided on the 9600 GT but the card was back-ordered so I thought I'd take a chance and go with HD 3870. Well...what a surprise! I'm playing Crysis with all the settings cranked up to the max and have not encountered any problems or glitches whatsoever. Everything is beautiful. It runs very quietly. This is a big card but it should fit most cases. I have it installed on a MicroATX MB in a Micro Fly MicroATX case. I had to trim a very tiny bit off the back of the drive cage to accommodate the hump on the card from the card's fan but no big deal. You need a minimum 450 watt power supply. I highly recommend this card.
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Rated by dana_a, March 13, 2008
I love this card and intend to buy another one within the year. The amount of power it provides compared to the price cant be beat. you wont go wrong with that video card.
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Rated by Wikkee!, March 9, 2008
Aside from this thing being HUGE and unwieldy, I can find no problems with it. Obviously, as a dual-slot solution, it's gonna be huge. That said, I'm very impressed with this card's performance, so much so that after I put one in my girlfriend's machine, I bought one myself. A great buy.
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Rated by Frank_K, March 2, 2008
Great card! I bought this puppy with the $40 off and even with next day shipping this thing was under $240! I would STRONGLY recommend ALL GAMERS (those who can afford) to buy 2x of these things and CF them ASAP! I'm getting the 790FX motherboard from ASUS and a Phenom 9600 very soon and even with my weak A$$ x2 4400+ this thing runs WoW 40+ FPS everything maxed!!! Same with Cs Source, and even Hellgate London 1920x1440!!! BUY THIS BEAUTY WITH CONFIDENCE!!!!!
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Rated by soullessone21, February 26, 2008
the shipping on this card rocked got it by 11 after I ordered it the night before. will buy tons of stuff from ncix you guys ROCK haha have a good one all and buy this card
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