OC PowerColor ATI HD 3850 512MB 256Bit GDDR3 Agp 8x

[FreedomEclipse]

Board is 4CoreDual-SATA2 w/AGP support.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=4CoreDual-SATA2

ah, my bad. It seems im only glazing over peoples posts

 

[brandonwh64]

ah, my bad. It seems im only glazing over peoples posts

ASRock and their nifty little boards LOL

 

[StanMen]

Yhoo ! sup guys ? i have in a page tow a post with pictur of my HD3850 and i want to know what do that Jumpers on it ? can some one tell me for what they need up there, if i'm not rong they can change the specs of my card make it oc somthing ? or make it faster can you help me figure it out thanks !!

 

[StanMen]

oh and i have some pics of comparation the 8800 GT 256MB with my HD3850 my HD is a 2 mil mor longer than a AplhaDog Ed GF 8800 GT i post the pics today

 

[_JP_]

Yhoo ! sup guys ? i have in a page tow a post with pictur of my HD3850 and i want to know what do that Jumpers on it ? can some one tell me for what they need up there, if i'm not rong they can change the specs of my card make it oc somthing ? or make it faster can you help me figure it out thanks !!

You posted this earlier:

oh and one more thing as you all know the my HD3850 i have 6pin pci e connectors connected to card, and i know the all jumpers what they doo on mobos and it may bee imbaressing i also have on my HD 3850 tow Jumpers see on pic :

[url]http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/9100/powercoloramdatihd38505.jpg[/URL]

To which I answered:

You must not change the jumpers on a graphics card, unless it's clearly stated on it's manual that such procedure is needed to activate a certain function/feature or it is labeled on the card that said jumper is there to switch between NSTC and PAL display modes do the S-Video output.

That should clear it.
To make it final, No, I do not believe those jumpers should be removed or changed form their original position.

Also, all those findings are fine and all but seriously:

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[Artas1984]

nForce 3! Old school baby! I will NEVER forget my DFI LanParty nForce 4 - the sweetest MB i ever had.

Seriously, if i were you, i would drop the motherboard and processor to the trash bin. HD3850 is more than enough to play any modern DX10 game on 1280x960 resolution, medium settings, with no AA, but for the cheapest motherboard + CPU combo - go and buy yourself a used P35 motherboard and Core 2 Duo or a new H61 motherboad with Pentium Dual core CPU.

 

[THE_EGG]

nForce 3! Old school baby! I will NEVER forget my DFI LanParty nForce 4 - the sweetest MB i ever had.

Seriously, if i were you, i would drop the motherboard and processor to the trash bin. HD3850 is more than enough to play any modern DX10 game on 1280x960 resolution, medium settings, with no AA, but for the cheapest motherboard + CPU combo - go and buy yourself a used P35 motherboard and Core 2 Duo or a new H61 motherboad with Pentium Dual core CPU.

I'm pretty sure he was thinking about buying a prebuilt computer which he said on the first page and second page.

 

[Widjaja]

I thought someone had been doing some thread necromancy from the thread title until I saw the thread date.

It's actually impressive to see one of these 754skt AMDs actually running.
Most the ones I have come across have been dying or dead.

For current days gaming as probably mentioned, a 775skt CPU is your best bet with the mentioned AsRock motherboard to reduce replacing hardware.

 

[BarbaricSoul]

Old school hardware

 

[StanMen]

hey guys! sup ? here some pics of my computer almost rady just waiting for CPU and new graphic card and i will upgrade my graphic card to HIS ATI HD 4850 1Gb GDDR5 256Bit PCI-E OC EDITION here take a look http://www.guru3d.com/imageview.php?image=15071 , and i did change my old HDD to 1Tb SATA and i have old HDD ATA for games and my staff i got 250Gb so here some pics:

My PC,







And here some pics of the 8800Gt and my HD 3850 and it 2 mm longer than 8800:






And here a vid of my old pc with AMD and this HD 3850 AGP with 2GbRAM and 500GB HDD win7 x86 playing a Crysis 2 max set:
i will post the vid when i don tu upload i post it here ok ?

 

[THE_EGG]

hey guys! sup ? here some pics of my computer almost rady just waiting for CPU and new graphic card and i will upgrade my graphic card to HIS ATI HD 4850 1Gb GDDR5 256Bit PCI-E OC EDITION here take a look http://www.guru3d.com/imageview.php?image=15071 , and i did change my old HDD to 1Tb SATA and i have old HDD ATA for games and my staff i got 250Gb so here some pics:

My PC,

[url]http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9897/picsav.jpg[/URL]

[url]http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/2624/pcssg.jpg[/URL]

[url]http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/1681/pcsb.jpg[/URL]

And here some pics of the 8800Gt and my HD 3850 and it 2 mm longer than 8800:


[url]http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/2341/pccompar.jpg[/URL]

[url]http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/8198/pccompare.jpg[/URL]

And here a vid of my old pc with AMD and this HD 3850 AGP with 2GbRAM and 500GB HDD win7 x86 playing a Crysis 2 max set:
i will post the vid when i don tu upload i post it here ok ?

I would try and protect the pins in the cpu socket if I were you. Hopefully it had a socket cover that came with the board. If it did keep it on the socket until you get your cpu. It should be a nice upgrade from what you had before!

 

[StanMen]

here a promeced video of game crysis 2 running on my old sis with this hd3850, even with the buttlenecking it had a perfomance xD

<embed src="http://img29.imageshack.us/flvplayer.swf?f=Palkg" width="1280" height="740" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/>

Comment guys

or here : http://imageshack.us/clip/my-videos/29/alkg.mp4/

 

[OneMoar]

old pc is old old pc got updated still very old
result old pc is old

 

[_JP_]

old pc is old old pc got updated still very old
result old pc is old

If it works for him, who cares if it's old.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Heres an AMD E-350 running Crysis 2

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if an entry level APU can handle it - your pc should very easily

 

[TRWOV]

If it works for him, who cares if it's old.

^Seconded

StanMen, you might find this interesting, my HIS 3850 AGP benchmarks:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2521829&postcount=934

 

[OneMoar]

its fine if it works for what he uses it for BUT don't expect amd game developers or pretty much anyone else to support it anymore

 

[TRWOV]

Once DX11 becomes the de facto standard with W8 I can see DX9/10 not being supported anymore. Anyway, there's countless of DX9/10 games that he can play.

I don't think I've seen a DX11 only game yet, all have DX9 as a fallback, AFAIK.

 

[Widjaja]

Some people like to state someone has an old PC with no real valuable input to the rest of the post.
Geeks get butt hurt, being told their PC is little and weak.
It can be the equivalent of saying a mans penis is small.

Anyway.
I think despite a system being crappy or not, the most important part is being happy with it.
The buzz from getting it upgraded and building it.
Newly acquired hardware no matter how old it is.
Getting it running and seeing it do better than what it was before.

Don't know what CPU is going to be thrown into that thing, but a Q6600 should drop in.

 

[TRWOV]

His friend is giving him an E4500 and he had the 3850 and RAM, all he needed was the mobo which he has bought, as pictured.

 

[OneMoar]

Some people like to state someone has an old PC with no real valuable input to the rest of the post.
Geeks get butt hurt, being told their PC is little and weak.
It can be the equivalent of saying a mans penis is small.

Anyway.
I think despite a system being crappy or not, the most important part is being happy with it.
The buzz from getting it upgraded and building it.
Newly acquired hardware no matter how old it is.
Getting it running and seeing it do better than what it was before.

Don't know what CPU is going to be thrown into that thing, but a Q6600 should drop in.

yes but the problem lays in that a lot of people do attempt 'upgrades' to ancient hardware and don't really understand what they are doing is a waste of time and then expect to be-able to play lastest and greatest game or ultra high bitrate movies and then they get upset when there "investment" falls flat on its face
it has nothing todo with epeen or this machine is better then that one
so long as you don't expect more then the hardware is capable of giving what ever works for you works but I do tend to take issue when people do things and then come back later complaining of low frame rates or bad performance .. and all I can tell them is sorry you wasted your money
I am of the school of: stop gap upgrade are a waste of time money and energy .. and I am by no means rich ....

 

[Widjaja]

^^ How about does not have the money to invest in a significant upgrade?
Being poor?

This stems back to the people who go.
Get a whole new PC and leave the thread knowing that the most likely reasoning for the small upgraded is due to being poor.

There has been no mention of the OP stating he would blame it all on us if his machine does not perform to what he hopes it to so why would you assume it would fall back on us?

 

[TRWOV]

yes but the problem lays in that a lot of people do attempt 'upgrades' to ancient hardware and don't really understand what they are doing is a waste of time and then expect to be-able to play lastest and greatest game or ultra high bitrate movies and then they get upset when there "investment" falls flat on its face
it has nothing todo with epeen or this machine is better then that one
so long as you don't expect more then the hardware is capable of giving what ever works for you works but I do tend to take issue when people do things and then come back later complaining of low frame rates or bad performance .. and all I can tell them is sorry you wasted your money
I am of the school of: stop gap upgrade are a waste of time money and energy .. and I am by no means rich ....

he's going to give the 775/AGP rig to his sister. He's buying a new PC for himself:

yha men ! this is right thing to do ! a new fully sis! i leve you here a specs of sis that i want buy in one store here near me, see te specs and let me know if its going bee grait ?


so i will buy this Computer sis, right next week check this guys ;

http://www.pcdiga.com/pcdiga/Produto.asp?Familia=Computadores&Artigo=3102

We already told him to replace the 6770 with an 6850/70. The 775/AGP rig is something build with leftovers that he's going to give away.

 

[OneMoar]

^^ How about does not have the money to invest in a significant upgrade?
Being poor?

This stems back to the people who go.
Get a whole new PC and leave the thread knowing that the most likely reasoning for the small upgraded is due to being poor.

There has been no mention of the OP stating he would blame it all on us if his machine does not perform to what he hopes it to so why would you assume it would fall back on us?

simple don't upgrade at all
been there done that I ran with a GHz Pentium 4 until late 2008 I could have upgraded with more ram or a faster gpu but that would have been a waste of time and i knew it how ever temping it was to spend 80 bucks on a 7800GT or a faster ram I knew in the end it would never help much .. so saved .. and I waited ..

hypothetical situation
I have a AMD 5200+ with 2GB of DDR 667 paired with a ATI 4850..
the options to upgrade that are pretty good most am2 boards support a Phenom II's and I do have one pcie x16
most boards of that era are limited to a 95wat TDP for phenom II's
so the options to upgrade are
drop in a ATI 6770 +120.00
and change the cpu out to a AMD Althalon II x4 100.00
upgrade to 4GB DRR2 +60.00 now I have a pc that could play battle field 3 and acceptable framerates
cost 335.00 usd
for a little over 100 dollars more I could build a brand new pc that would outperform the upgraded one by several factors of magnitude
for example

antec 520wat psu +55.00
4GB DDR3 1600 + 40.00
Amd Pheome II X4 BE 130.00
socket AM3+ motherboard 75.00
ATI 6850 150.00
160GB hdd +70.00
Optical drive and misc parts +35
cheap case +25
450USD
this estimate is probably a bit on the high side
and it would ABSOLUTELY stomp the old rig
so say the I decide to upgrade my current build and save 115 bucks a well Iv breathed another year or so if life into it so what ... do I repeat the same process the following year ? and waste another 200 or 300 bucks ?

 

[StanMen]

Heres an AMD E-350 running Crysis 2

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if an entry level APU can handle it - your pc should very easily

Good this AMD very nice m8!