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Alright guys, so you want to be able to do
a nice gaming Crossfire system
without breaking the bank?
Here you go, it's a Diamond Radeon HD 3870
overclocked card. It's 512 Megs of RAM
just like the regular one, G-DDR4 with
320 stream processors. Looking at the specs on this one,
we give you the base clocks first and then
the overclocked ones which are on this card,
just show you what the difference between them is.
On your base reference system
you've got an 1125 MHz memory clock
and a 775 MHz core clock. This card here is the
overclocked edition, they've doubled the
memory clock on it. It's up to 2250. The core gets a
slight increase up to 800 MHz,
but the memory is really where it's at.
The card also has the HDCP for the
Blu-Ray suport on the PCI Express 2.0 bus
along with the Crossfire X support on it as well.
Let's take a look down here, there's that
PCI Express connector I was talking about.
Nice big heat sink, all copper under there,
with the nice copper heat pipes,
that's great for keeping everything
nice and cool. Transfers a lot of heat
right to the top there, so it can be
blown right out, through the little
chimney port there. Now as far as connectors,
you got your pretty standard DVI
and again like you see pretty much all the
high-end cards with it, one with the
S-Video connector. I'm gonna go and flip this
around to the back. Now this one you do need
a minimum 450 Watt power supply, but you
probably wanna be quite a bit higher than that.
Also it does have, require these 6 pin connector,
so you need to make sure
the power supply has that, although it
does come with an adaptor for it,
just to cover you, if you don't have it,
but you'd rather use those if you've got it.
As far as the little things that come along with it,
here is your DVI to HDMI adaptor,
and those are pretty much standard things,
along with the Crossfire connector.
One nice thing that they are giving you in here,
a lot of the ATI cards are coming
with this now, this is a dual molex 2D6 pin.
That is, if you do not have these 6 pin
connector on your power supply,
it does you an option there, but you wanna
try get a power supply with it,
because, otherwise you are losing two other
important connectors. Let's take a look at
some of the benchmarks here. I've got a couple
of games here that we've got benchmarked.
Half Life 2 is the first game that we're
gonna talk about. That one running at
1920 x 1200. This card pulled off a whole
133 frames a second, which is a great performance
out of the card. Crysis,
gotta talk about it, that's what everyone's
comparing everything to. That is the new
standard for peformance on a graphics card.
1920 x 1200, this card managed to crank out
31 frames a second on its own. That is
not in Crossfire. So put two of those together
and your gonna get a much better
result out of this thing. Great card for
your mid, even up to the high-end gaming,
great card on a budget, too. You can pop out
two of these. Get some great performance,
all around on the whole system, and it's not
gonna break the bank to do it.
Great card, and probably the best value,
in its price range. About wraps it up there,
this is the Diamond Radeon HD 3870 Overclocked card,
It's about all I've got for you today,
so I'm gonna head on out a here. See you next time.
Alright guys, for more information on the
Diamond Radeon HD 3870 Overclocked, head right over to
TigerDirect, type D10-3870 into the search bar.
You can give us a call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
at 1-800-800-8300.
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