Okay now that my 3850x2 has been returned and

PaulieG · May 24, 2008

trt740 said:
like Asus but that 3850x2 pissed me off a bit way to make a great card ,great heatsink and put crap fans that have the worst fan engine noise ever. That card had serious potential for coolness. Asus dropped the ball on that one. Heck it even had leds on the back of the card that matched my ROG motherboard. When I say bad egine noise it reminded me of a kid lightly scratching his nails on a chaulk board.

Damn. I'm not sure what manufacturers are thinking sometimes. Would it really take all that much time and energy to find a low noise fan for a cooler?

btarunr · May 24, 2008

I think the 8800 GT AKIMBO 1GB is a great deal over GTS 512M, when you OC it well. It comes with a decent cooler.

Cold Storm · May 24, 2008

btarunr said:
I think the 8800 GT AKIMBO 1GB is a great deal over GTS 512M, when you OC it well. It comes with a decent cooler.

I second that because of the fact that the 8800gt 1gb one with the Akimbo cooler was the one I had my site on. I wanted nothing lower then 1gb card because of having so much fun with my palit card before it died... Then just thinking of how it could be going sli..

trt740 · May 24, 2008

I sure wish I had my 9800gtx back

Paulieg said:
Damn. I'm not sure what manufacturers are thinking sometimes. Would it really take all that much time and energy to find a low noise fan for a cooler?

I will never see 269.00 shipped before a rebate anytime soon. I have been told buy some other people that they owned the 3850x2 and the fan was fine but if you read that neoseekers review hes kinda indicating it's loud aswell. Also update on the 3870x2 that was really a 3870 buy.com finally emailed me and told me to refuse the package for a full refund only took them 12 hours to respond to my email when they said it usually takes 15 minutes.

HTC · May 24, 2008

Someone please correct me if i'm wrong: wasn't with an Asus card that the 3D06 record was broken a while back? If so, that tells a lot about OCing potential.

I got myself an Asus 3870. I can tell you right now that, compared to my previous card (sapphire 3870), @ stock speed, the fan of the Asus is louder then the one of previous card (haven't tested it @ 100% yet).

Having a 3rd party cooler for it would be the way to go and i would suggest the Accelero S1 Rev 2. You would have to get some Ram sinks as well (i was recommended the EnzoTech BCC9 - Bmr-C1L).

Take a look @ this:

trt740 · May 24, 2008

what do ya think of this deal http://cgi.ebay.com/H-I-S-HD3870x2-...oryZ3762QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Rebo&Zooty · May 24, 2008

the one thing you can say for sure tho is that if you need to rma your card, asus WILL do it quickly and without alot of hassles, and they give 3 years like i said, as aposed to the other makers of ati cards that lately have been droping back to 1 year warr.

as to the 8800gt, if its the palit pcb with 3 phase power thats good, if its the nvidia normal pcb, avoid it, i have had a few DIE on me as well as seen a good number of DOA cards.

my advice as b4, the asus card, its not tops on this poll but it WILL give you a damn good card for the price, and the warr service is outstanding, 5 buisness day turnaround on my x800xt pe when i rmaed it a few months back, thats 5 days from the time i shiped it priority usps to the time it arrived back here ups!!!!!

Rebo&Zooty · May 24, 2008

trt740 said:
what do ya think of this deal http://cgi.ebay.com/H-I-S-HD3870x2-...oryZ3762QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

i think its a good price, but also a risk, seller has low feedback count, tho its all good.....

Cold Storm · May 24, 2008

I would try for it TRT.. Pretty nice price and I gotta say its good maker.

trt740 · May 24, 2008

Rebo&Zooty said:
i think its a good price, but also a risk, seller has low feedback count, tho its all good.....

Well I took the chance his feedback is good and a 3870x2 for 265.00 is a good deal. Hopefull this works out well if it does I got a 3870x2 for the price I payed for the 9800gtx I bought. Now all I have to do is refuse the buy.com 3870 1gb and the 8800gts for auto RMAs ( I will then basically have traded a 9800gtx for a 3870x2 which i think is a good deal since i have a crossfire motherboard). I guess it's better I'm hooked on computer hardware and not crack. This 3870x2 should hold me for a while. :laugh:

It looks like a nice card it appears it was the sellers because hes selling a Maximus Formula and just sold some super talen ddr2.

Cold Storm · May 24, 2008

You also have to look at the fact that the seller might just be starting to trade stuff... so its going to be low... but I'm glad you went with it!

trt740 · May 24, 2008

please close this thread the deed is done a card not even in the poll won. LOL 3870x2 $265.00

HTC · May 24, 2008

trt740 said:
please close this thread the deed is done a card not even in the poll won. LOL 3870x2 $265.00

Congratz on your purchase, dude.

Hope it turns out OK and you don't have problems with it!

trt740 · May 24, 2008

HTC said:
Congratz on your purchase, dude.

Hope it turns out OK and you don't have problems with it!

I hope so too it looks good. I bought it with visa that makes it alot safer if paypal doesn't help visa always does. I have been having a bit of a bad run thus far but we will see. the card retails for 374.00 shipped on the egg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161224

vhall · May 25, 2008

trt740 said:
when I opened that bad boy.

Glad you worked it out.A lot of unscrupulous dealers on ebay.You must read descriptions very carefully.Especially with too good to be true deals.You're lucky it's a big reseller like buy.com.
I like the fact that sellers can no longer leave retaliatory feedback.Should help point out some of these bad sellers although I always stick to Newegg.

jammy86 · May 27, 2008

Three Phase power, hahahahahahaah! its DC. what a tool

JAmes.

trt740 · May 28, 2008

3870x2 ended up being a super good buy looks brand new

InnocentCriminal · May 28, 2008

I suggest you try the single 3870 - I'm so pleased with my 3850 I can only imagine that the 3870 would be better, even if you've had a bad experience with ASUS.

yogurt_21 · May 28, 2008

trt740 said:
3870x2 ended up being a super good buy looks brand new

yeah but is it playing nicely? no loud fan or driver bugs?

trt740 · May 28, 2008

yogurt_21 said:
yeah but is it playing nicely? no loud fan or driver bugs?

at stock speeds 825/1800 you cannot even hear the fan and it scoring near 19000 in the 3dmarks06 with my 3110 at it's 24/7 clock of 4.25ghz. At 878/1910 I set the fan at 35 percent and the gpu never goes over 65c and you can just barely hear the fan. This is a fantasic card. The best I have ever owned.

Cold Storm · May 28, 2008

TRT, your learning the True power of a HIS graphics card! Glad to see it up and running, and giving that Xeon a reason to stay in there!

yogurt_21 · May 28, 2008

trt740 said:
at stock speeds 825/1800 you cannot even hear the fan and it scoring near 19000 in the 3dmarks06 with my 3110 at it's 24/7 clock of 4.25ghz. At 878/1910 I set the fan at 35 percent and the gpu never goes over 65c and you can just barely hear the fan. This is a fantasic card. The best I have ever owned.

wow, that's awesome. glad to see it's working out. Seems my 2900 has limited life left in it. I'll probabaly kill it on a last oc binge and then see what best price/perf at that point.

right now my rigs on quiet mode with stock cooling. the cpu never breaks 35c at 3.2GHZ, the 2900....idles at 55C lol full load at around 80C. I think those suicide runs at 1.1-1.2GHZ (which all failed btw) really took their toll on the gpu. SO i'll give ti one last go at breaking 1GHZ and successfully gaming once I get phase put back on the card.

trt740 · May 28, 2008

Well it seems overclocking it past

Cold Storm said:
TRT, your learning the True power of a HIS graphics card! Glad to see it up and running, and giving that Xeon a reason to stay in there!

878/1910 seems pointless then the fan gets a bit loud and you don't seem to gain much buy doing it. They cards are truely beast with mature drivers.

Cold Storm · May 28, 2008

trt740 said:
878/1910 seems pointless then the fan gets a bit loud and you don't seem to gain much buy doing it. They cards are truely beast with mature drivers.

That it is. so your using 8.5? or still the 8.4 driver with the card?

trt740 · May 28, 2008

Cold Storm said:
That it is. so your using 8.5? or still the 8.4 driver with the card?

8.5

Processor	5800x(2)/5700g/5600x/5600g/2700x/1700x/1700
Motherboard	MSI B550 Carbon (2)/ MSI z490 Unify/Asus Strix B550-F/MSI B450 Tomahawk (3)
Cooling	EK AIO 360 (2)/EK AIO 240, Arctic Cooling Freezer II 280/EVGA CLC 280/Noctua D15/Cryorig M9(2)
Memory	32 GB Ballistix Elite/32 GB TridentZ/16GB Mushkin Redline Black/16 GB Dominator
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix RTX3060/EVGA 970(2)/Asus 750 ti/Old Quadros
Storage	Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 500GB/WD Black M.2 NVMe 500GB/Adata 500gb NVMe
Display(s)	Acer 1080p 22"/ (3) Samsung 22" 1080p
Case	(2) Lian Li Lancool II Mesh/Corsair 4000D /Phanteks Eclipse 500a/Be Quiet Pure Base 500/Bones of HAF
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova 850G(2)/EVGA Supernova GT 650w/Phantek Amps 750w/Seasonic Focus 750w
Mouse	Generic Black wireless (5)
Keyboard	Generic Black wireless (5)
Software	Win 10/Ubuntu

System Name	RBMK-1000
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Strix B450-E Gaming
Cooling	DeepCool Gammax L240 V2
Memory	2x 8GB G.Skill Sniper X
Video Card(s)	Palit GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GameRock
Storage	Western Digital Black NVMe 512GB
Display(s)	BenQ 1440p 60 Hz 27-inch
Case	Corsair Carbide 100R
Audio Device(s)	ASUS SupremeFX S1220A
Power Supply	Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W
Mouse	ASUS ROG Strix Impact
Keyboard	Gamdias Hermes E2
Software	Windows 11 Pro

System Name	Haro
Processor	AMD 1700x
Motherboard	AsRork x370 Taichi
Cooling	EK Custom Loop - CPU only
Memory	32gb G-Skill Trident Z
Video Card(s)	EVGA 1080 Superclock 2
Storage	Too Many
Display(s)	Viewsonic VX2450WM-LED 24" & LG 32 IPS
Case	Cooler Master Cosmos II
Power Supply	Cooler Master V1000
Mouse	SteelSeries Rival 500
Software	Win10 Pro
Benchmark Scores	i5 750 4.62ghz pi runs // Evga FTW p55

System Name	Apple Bite
Processor	Intel I5
Motherboard	Apple
Memory	40gb of DDR 4 2700
Video Card(s)	ATI Radeon 500
Storage	Fusion Drive 1 TB
Display(s)	27 Inch IMac late 2017

System Name	HTC's System
Processor	Ryzen 5 2600X
Motherboard	Asrock Taichi X370
Cooling	NH-C14, with the AM4 mounting kit
Memory	G.Skill Kit 16GB DDR4 F4 - 3200 C16D - 16 GTZB
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 480 OC 4 GB
Storage	1 Samsung NVMe 960 EVO 250 GB + 1 3.5" Seagate IronWolf Pro 6TB 7200RPM 256MB SATA III
Display(s)	LG 27UD58
Case	Fractal Design Define R6 USB-C
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Corsair TX 850M 80+ Gold
Mouse	Razer Deathadder Elite
Software	Ubuntu 19.04 LTS

System Name	Vostro 200
Processor	C2d E6550 (2.33Ghz) 1333MHz
Motherboard	Foxconn (dell) G33M02 - bearlake
Cooling	Stock Dell supplied cooler(awful) with coolmaster 80mm PWM fan. 92mm POS case fan.
Memory	Samsung M378T2953EZ3-CE6 2048meg 667MHz
Video Card(s)	HIS 3870 ICEQ3
Storage	2x WD2500JS-75NCB3 (250gb sata)
Display(s)	Acer AL1722, Benq T904 (Desktop res: 2560x1024)
Case	Dell Vostro 200
Audio Device(s)	Auzntech X-Fi Prelude through Gale 4020's + Gale sub
Power Supply	Corsair HX 520w
Software	Vista Bis 32bit (winamp, vlc and Ultramon FTW)
Benchmark Scores	Struggling to break 10K on 3d06.

System Name	BeeR 6
Processor	Intel Core i7 3770K*
Motherboard	ASUS Maximus V Gene (1155/Z77)
Cooling	Corsair H100i
Memory	16GB Samsung Green 1600MHz DDR3**
Video Card(s)	4GB MSI Gaming X RX480
Storage	256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD
Display(s)	27" Samsung C27F591FDU
Case	Fractal Design Arc Mini
Power Supply	Corsair HX750W
Software	64bit Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores	@ 4.6GHz *@ 2133MHz

System Name	Thought I'd be done with this by now
Processor	i7 11700k 8/16
Motherboard	MSI Z590 Pro Wifi
Cooling	Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro 4, 9x aigo AR12
Memory	32GB GSkill TridentZ Neo DDR4-4000 CL18-22-22-42
Video Card(s)	MSI Ventus 2x Geforce RTX 3070
Storage	1TB MX300 M.2 OS + Games, + cloud mostly
Display(s)	Samsung 40" 4k (TV)
Case	Lian Li PC-011 Dynamic EVO Black
Audio Device(s)	onboard HD -> Yamaha 5.1
Power Supply	EVGA 850 GQ
Mouse	Logitech wireless
Keyboard	same
VR HMD	nah
Software	Windows 10
Benchmark Scores	no one cares anymore lols

Okay now that my 3850x2 has been returned and

which card bang for the buck, dollar for dollar ,would you buy.

DIAMOND Viper 3870PE4512SB Radeon HD 3870 512MB 256-bit GDDR4

ASUS EAH3870/G/HTDI/512M Radeon HD 3870 512MB 256-bit GDDR4 PCI Express 2.0

EVGA 512-P3-N807-AR GeForce 8800GT AKIMBO 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0

ECS N8800GTS-512MX GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0

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