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ASUS EAH3850/G/HTDI/512M Desktop Graphics / Video Cards
Customer Reviews for ASUS EAH3850/G/HTDI/512M Radeon HD 3850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card - Retail
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axleander
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/25/2008 9:10:44 AM

Rating + 5 What a deal! Great card.


Pros: One of the best deals I have ever received. Newegg rocks! The card is great plus it came with Company of Heroes and Alone in the Dark. Price after rebate was unbelievable. I'm playing Crysis with half settings on medium, half on high (No AA) with great FPS. Card overclocks and has a great fan but will overheat if you're not careful. I mostly leave it at stock speeds or mild overclock.

Cons: None so far.

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kraken
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/22/2008 12:31:26 PM

Rating + 2 Dissapointed.....


Pros: Has good specs?

Cons: I put this in my PC and I havnt had anything but hassel so far! I got he 8.8 cataylst and I cant run RCT3, Crysis, or FSX! It has MAJOR problems with textures going everywhere! I dont know maybe if someone could recomend a better set of drivers? But so far very dissapointed!

Other Thoughts: I was really looking forward to getting to get some major increases in performance!

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Megamanx00
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/22/2008 9:00:32 AM

Rating + 5 Great Deal


Pros: You can't find a better sub $100 card and with the mail in rebate this thing is a steal. That fact that COH is included was awesome, but also getting alone in the dark makes this card even sweeter. The packaging was impressive and can make you feel that the slogan they put on there "Rock Solid Heart Touching" is something they take to heart. On top of that the included overclocking tool is actually useful.

Cons: No heatsinks on the Ram. As such I wouldn't try overclocking the Ram too much. You also need to take note of the heatsink design. The box it comes in is frikin huge. It sure is impressive but that is the biggest box I've ever seen for a video card. Not really a con though since it gives you the impression of a more expensive card

Other Thoughts: The cooler is excellent, but it looses effectiveness when it doesn't have proper airflow. It is better if it has a fan blowing right below it so it can suck up cooler air rather than right at the card. While buying two for crossfire may seem like a good idea you're better off buying a 4850, but if you already have a 3850 then buying this one to run crossfire will make a decent upgrade at a good price with some free games to boot. I don't think 3850's will be around for too much longer.

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dsen901
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/21/2008 7:51:14 PM

Rating + 4 works


Pros: Great card. runs any game i throw at it exceptionally. came with 2 free games. easy installation. have overclocked and have had no problems what so ever...for the price , this is a great card for guys who just wanna play games on med-high settings.

Cons: after installing company of heroes and playing it a few hours. ever time i would exit out of game, i got BSD. something with Bios error and then i had to dump my physical memory?...dont install audio driver. it may make your speakers stop working like mine and a few other guys here.

Other Thoughts: COH has SO many patch updates...which was obnoxious.
i've read alone in the dark game does not install quite smoothly. have not tried though.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/20/2008 6:08:50 PM

Rating + 4 Great Card


Pros: Great graphics. Quiet card. Best bang for buck card out there.

Cons: This thing is HUGE!!! I tried to put it into my HTPC and the lid wouldn't close. Looks like I'll be putting it into my other rig instead.

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fwsch
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/20/2008 2:48:06 AM

Rating + 5 ASUS EAH3850 512M PCI-E 2.0


Pros: It never goes above 55-60degrees Celsius when trying to overclock it! It usually stays around 40-42 degrees while using apps while my CPUs run at 40.

Cons: It's out of stock. I'll be waiting for the 25th to come around to buy another one to do crossfire! I hope it'll be in stock! Oh, and I spent more money on the first one, that's a con.

Oh, and the HDMI drivers really confused me, as I didn't know why windows was prompting me to install them. I think they kept conflicting with my onboard Realtek Sound, so I had to disable DFI's sound as it kept conflicting with the IRQ when I had both ATI's card drivers for HDMI and Realtek's onboard sound drivers installed.

Other Thoughts: The temperature must've not increased by so much because the DFI Lanparty M2RS board I have with it, has the wattage manually set for 25W for the card.
Currently using Rosewill 600W PSU, Athlon 6000+ ~3.21GHz, and 2 gigs of G.Skill ram, with 2 more coming from Newegg.

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Erratic Duck
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/19/2008 5:08:15 PM

Rating + 5 AMAZING!


Pros: I got this card for about 60 bucks after rebate. This deal is UNBELIEVABLY PHENOMENAL, considering that Company of Heroes and Alone in the Dark come bundled. Card runs cool and is virtually inaudible. Yet, it exceeded all of my expectations. Crysis runs smoothly on all High settings. Call of Duty 4 is maxed out. This card is just great; the best bang-for-the-buck!

Cons: I haven't tried overclocking this baby. But reviewers claim many attempts have been unsuccessful...

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/19/2008 12:38:03 AM

Rating + 4 Great Deal


Pros: Great deal. I got it for $60 bucks after rebate. Card handles every DX10 game i have thrown at it quite nicely. I am upgrading from a radeon 8500le so my view point may be off a bit. For the price it can't be beat.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: wish it had gdd5 instead of the gdd3, but that is what the 4870 is for.

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Nate A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/18/2008 1:09:01 PM

Rating + 5 Amazed


Pros: DX10 on the cheap! This card works with DX10 and actually has the muscle to output DX10 games with good quality.

Includes free Company of Heroes and Alone in the Dark- great bonuses!

Retail package includes everything you need on the cheap, non-oem/openbox.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: While there are some other cards out there that can outperform the HD 3850 (8800GT, etc.) in about the same price range, to get a great deal such as this you'll only find open box or refurb. cards. For 100 bucks including shipping, I am now going from a AIW 9600 Pro to a much better product! (Skipping 5 generations for under 100 bucks is just great for me).

Those that are looking for the ultimate performance or best frame rates, you know that this card wont provide them. But for solid performance in even some of the most demanding games, and future-forward DX10 functionality from a card that has muscle to back it up- it's a no brainer.

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Germany57
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/17/2008 4:31:45 PM

Rating + 4 Super Card


Pros: Graphics are super

Cons: Drivers not to easy to get running

Other Thoughts: need bettrer driver support

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/17/2008 4:22:04 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Best card i have ever owned period. handles everything i throw at it with EASE. plays Crysis on High at 1440X960 at about 25-35FPS outdoors and roughly 40-60 indoors. HL2:E2 runs at 45FPS MINIMUM, COD4, Bioshock, GRID all look and play great. quiet at idle

Cons: Wasnt i supposed to get Alone in the Dark too?

Other Thoughts: AMD ahlon X2 6000+, 2GB Patriot RAM pc 6400, ASUS M2N-SLI deluxe, Hitatchi SATA. 3Dmark 06: 9202 marks

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Ed
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/17/2008 3:43:40 PM

Rating + 5 Great Value!


Pros: $69.38 for the card, company of heroes opposing fronts (which retails for 20-30 dollars off the shelf) including shipping, that's pretty much unbeatable value, a 3650 usually retails for higher than this price. The card runs great, it has a pretty big fan and heatsink, so it keeps the load temps to around 60C and idle at about 55C, runs all my games at highest res with maxed out settings at 30+FPS (World in Conflict was like, just above 30 FPS, but that thing is one of the most demanding games made save for crysis).

Cons: Some trouble overclocking, ATi Tool had trouble detecting its frequencies so that didn't work out so well. Riva Tuner works fine though, however, I was a tad disapointed that I couldn't push the memory past much more than 1900mhz and the core much over 725mhz. I was hoping for near 3870 frequencies.

Other Thoughts: This card is huge, reached all the way back to the HDD cage, I had to rearrange one of my drives to make room for it (the power cable wouldn't plug in if I didn't).

Overall, its a great buy, and with a 70 dollar price tag, it's already a great deal, with COH:OF included, this is one phenomenal deal, no wonder it keeps going out of stock.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/15/2008 9:45:16 PM

Rating + 5 VERY NICE :)


Pros: Crazy low price($69.38 including shipping and rebate) Best the price for the spec. very quite. Runs most games in high settings. C&C3, COD4, Assassin's creed.
47C-60C in my case.

Cons: Monster size, you will have to sacrifice on PCI slot.

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bretto
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/14/2008 7:23:07 PM

Rating + 5 Great Value


Pros: Great price. It is much faster than my old card and it will allow me to play any of the new games coming out this year at decent settings.

Cons: None

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roshambo
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/9/2008 1:39:42 PM

Rating + 3 Expecting a bit more


Pros: Good Price. Quite. The fan is freaking huge. Impressive looking vid. card.

Cons: Expecting a bit more. 2 of these and you'd be set. Does run any game. I read one review that said COH on high settings for 52 fps. I get 52 fps max but the avg is around 8. Had to lower its settings a bit. No games run on the highest settings but run fine on average to high settings. I've played COH, Bf2, BF2142, Portal so far on it.

Other Thoughts: I think i did ok with this vid card. I hate it when you spend over a 100 bucks and they put a 10 cent fan that fails within a month. Don't think that will happen with this card. Great starting card, I'll wait a year or so and get a couple of more to finish of my computer.

Specs:
MSI K9A2 Platinum AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
AMD Phenom 9600
OCZ Reaper HPC 4GB

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Refu
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/4/2008 11:22:36 AM

Rating + 5 UPDATE


Pros: After a month and a half of constant use this awsome card is still chugging at full steam :) I couldnt be happier and of course i got it OC'd a bit IDOLS@37c under full load it never goes over 60c BEST CARD IVE EVER OWNED!!

Cons: sometimes catalyst drivers stop responding but sience i downloaded the 8.7 version it doesnt happen as often :) hardly a con considering it only happened couple times, besides that THIS CARD IS WORTHY OF A CHAMPION NAME ! GO ASUS.

Other Thoughts: Runs Crysis on Very high settings with minimal hickups!! PLUS World in Conflict Looks and plays flawlesly with this baby, Assasins Creed plays on all the settings turned up high beautfully as well.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
7/26/2008 1:14:31 PM

Rating + 5 great card


Pros: great card runs very cool even when playing games easy to install great price

Cons: the card is a ittle long

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Old Marine
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/21/2008 2:04:39 PM

Rating + 5 ASUS EAH3850/G/HTDI/512M Radeon HD 3850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail


Pros: Installation was a breeze, and setup very clear, the drivers loaded and I had no trouble at all. I am running a AMD Phenon 9850 with a Biostar MB with Vista Home Premium and having no trouble. I am not a gamer so have not put the Video card through those paces.

Cons: The only con I have with this Video card is that it takes up a lot of space and makes getting another card in beside it difficult. And it runs pretty hot, I would expect if I was using it for gaming it would cause a considerable increase in the temperature of my system.

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Cowboy
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/13/2008 12:26:25 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: unbelievable preformance. it rates 1 gig of ram in every test and plays games at full video settings. This card is the best card I have ever owned and exceeds all of my expectations.

Cons: none after 4 months of use.

Other Thoughts: i am looking forward to crossfiring this card and plan to purchase additional card very soon.

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Refu
Tech Level: average
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/7/2008 11:33:06 AM

Rating + 5 All i can say is wow!!


Pros: Mn what can i tell you other than "THIS BABY FLIES"
i just got it today instalation was a breeze no problems whats so ever,read alot about ppl saying not to bother installing software that comes with it,so i didnt.went straight to the web site and never looked back.. I play World in conflict, C&C 3 and Kanes Wrath,Assassins Creed,and 40+ other games that would be too much to type :) Blows my measly Nvidia 8500GT out of the water and its 3 times bigger,ever went with ATI before and let me tell u they got them selves another Fan :) i cant even imagine how good it would be in crossfire,thats my next project gettin a mobo that supports dual cards and im getting another one of these babys!

Cons: NONE whats so ever!!!

Other Thoughts: My Specs: AMD Athlon 5000+ 2GB RAM,ASUS Radeon 3850 512/m,650W BFG PSU, 400GB HD,Windows Vista Home Premium Edition.

One question that i got and maybe someone outhere can help me :) I got 2 ram slots,with gig in each,now my question is.... can i put 2 gis ram sticks in those slots?? id like more ram :) my comp is only 2 to 3 months old and i had ppl tell me that if its a newer mobo it might work. thank you 4 ur support.

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Cory
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/2/2008 8:07:08 PM

Rating + 5 Nice 3000 series


Pros: WOW!!! Plays UT3, ES Oblivion, and Flight Simulator X all awesome. ESO and FSX both on highest settings.

Cons: in my opinion useless software

Other Thoughts: Get your driver off the website. Have not tried overclocking yet. So far no need.

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MICT
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/29/2008 7:08:17 PM

Rating + 3 Eh not so happy


Pros: I purchased two to run them in crossfire, but ran into some issues.

Cons: One card was doa and had to be sent back to newegg. One card left in my main gaming system causes sparkles on the screen even on the desktop. Not sure if it was due to length of the cable running to the monitor, about 18 ft, but my prior card never had any issues.

Other Thoughts: I decided to re-use my older video card, as i thought it was faulty but even with the new ati card, my system still froze during games. I installed one card into my dell 530, and it runs perfectly in that system with no issues. The second card that replaced the doa one was installed into my other dell 531 as it had a lame nvidia 8300 in it stock. Both cards run well in those systems. To bad I never got to try them in crossfire.
My motherboard recently failed, which was another asus product. I think asus needs to improve their QA of products before sending them out, as I tire of spending money on shipping things back for RMA.

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MrChazz
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/29/2008 5:03:01 PM

Rating + 5 Very Nice


Pros: This card is VERY fast, the cooler on it is keeping it nice and cool all day long, even in the 100 degree weather we are having here in Oregon. Its been running solid for over 3 weeks without a crash or any type of problem.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: This card was purchased as a NEED not a want for a new system I was building, MSI NEO-FD + AMD 64 6000+ X2, 2gb (1gbx2) G.Skill DDR2 800mhz. And it has got to be the best preforming system I have put together in a long time. This card will be paired with another one soon enough, to bad i have to get another board to support that. if your looking for a top rated card, this is it, and for the money you cant beat it!

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Jeffreyw
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/24/2008 11:48:54 PM

Rating + 5 ASUS For the Win


Pros: Awesome card. Bought to use with a Q9300 processor and works great with any game I throw at it.

Cons: As someone earlier said the Windows system rating will not recognize it and gives it a 1.0 value. Doesn't effect anything though.

Other Thoughts: Definitely a good buy here, don't hesitate to buy one.

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TIMBOX
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/24/2008 8:29:27 PM

Rating + 5 V Card


Pros: AWESOME!!! Puts a hurtin' on NVIDIA XFX & the rest. This is all become of the boys from AMD has taken over the show at ATI headquarters. You can go spend a lot more money on a video card if you like. SERIOUSLY, this you worth double of what I paid for. ATI has MEGA improved their quality & performance in the last year. And, a price very hard to beat.

Cons: I wish they sent me two.... nothing!

Other Thoughts: Awesome performance, quality, very stable, reliable. Here you get the best of both worlds: ASUS & ATI... I really wonder what will they think of next. A+ grade. Vista grades it a 5.9 which is the highest score they give. ABSOLUTELY NO NEGATIVES REMARKS...

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Mungo
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/21/2008 8:16:48 AM

Rating + 1 Crashes in 3d mode


Pros: Can't realy say

Cons: Ever since I installed this card my 3d games crash to the desktop after 5 or 10 min. of play.
I've done everything possable to fix the problem but nothing has made any difference.

I now understand why Newegg doesn't fully garrinty this card.

Other Thoughts: Newegg has issued an RMA for this card but they will only do an exchange (no refunds) and they will only send the replacment after they get the defective one back.

So I'll have to go buy a new card localy then ship this defective card back to them.

Then they will send me another card and I'll be stuck with two cards at twice the price.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/16/2008 2:04:49 PM

Rating + 5 Absolutely amazing, well worth the 100 bucks


Pros: Very cool and quiet card. Large fan allows for slower rotation >> less noise. Runs HL2, portal, AutoCad perfectly in Vista. System score gives it a 5.9, highest possible!

Cons: Video drivers absolutely suck. Also, Vista has a tough time doing the system rating and doesnt recognize the card right off the bat.

Other Thoughts: If you are doing serious gaming or just need a wonderful card for general use then look no further!

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J-Rated
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/24/2008 2:47:44 PM

Rating + 5 U can't touch this


Pros: 1. Unbelievable performance for only about a Benjamin
2. Fan is incedibably quiet and works great
3. Free Company of Heros: Opposing Force
4. Easy install, ignore CDs, just get latest AMD/ATi drivers
5. TF2 plays at 1600X1050 with everything turned on full on my PC with super smooth gameplay

Cons: 1. Wish price was without mail-in rebate
2. New Nvidia/ATi cards coming in mid June will probably drive both price and acceptable performance of this card down, but at around one hundred dollars it will last you a year at least...
3. Needs newer PSU, but you should get a newer 80plus unit anyways
4. Now I want a new SLi board and another one of these...

Other Thoughts: Why spend $300 on a new card when a $100 card will get you 80-90% there?

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tora
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/3/2008 9:05:56 PM

Rating + 5 Awsome card!


Pros: SOLID CARD! You can not beat the speed and memory size with DX10 and PCIe2.0 FOR THE COST of this board. It's the single best choice for the money, period.

Cons: It doesn't have the amazing warranty that EVGA cards do, but ASUS is still amazing as its always been.

Other Thoughts: HL2 Deathmatch, average frame rate is nearly 200.

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cruznjoe1282
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/25/2008 8:58:40 PM

Rating + 3 Asus Version of ATI Catalyst


Pros: Good price, sweet graphics, but...

Cons: If you download the newest version of ATI catalyst, this dang thing won't register with the X-fire, because it's not X-fire certified, you must use the Drivers that come in the CD with the Cards; which can be a pain in the rear!!!

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carrzski
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/23/2008 9:07:59 PM

Rating + 5 great deal


Pros: excellent. got two of them, runs everything i can toss at em, not a ripple.

Cons: not free

Other Thoughts: just download the driver from ATI dont use the software. q6600 @ 3.6 ghz, maximus formula, 4 gigs ocz titanium ddr 800

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BradleyAV8R
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/18/2008 2:46:14 PM

Rating + 5 Cool and Quiet


Pros: Very Quiet even at 80 to 100% Fan Speeds. Full accessories kit for eventual Crossfire Configuration. It runs my previously problem game LOTRO at very high setting without a hitch.

Cons: Still Need to get Riva or ATI Tool to customize fan settings if you want to keep it out of upper 60 deg. C under load but it runs significantly better and quieter than my ATI Crossfire 1900XT.

Other Thoughts: Based on reviews I just installed it using the Catalyst 8.3 suite. No problems observed.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/14/2008 10:32:28 AM

Rating + 4 Problematic initial drivers


Pros: stays very cool in comparison to other 3800series cards.
extremely quiet

Cons: Asus drivers are problematic...couldnt rune a single game without problems
downloaded the ATI ones and it seems to be fine now

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SUPER ©
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/10/2008 10:15:30 PM

Rating + 5 Would Recommend


Pros: Heat sink/fan are well made and move a lot of air even after 1 year the fan blows strong. I have two of these in my system (CrossFire) and have been able to run every game current out, including Crysis at their highest quality settings and still run 58+ FPS even in intense graphical areas. Easily overclocked as well though I have mine set at default speeds as I do not need the extra power at this time and I would like to prolong the life of the cards.

Cons: No problems on my Windows Vista Ultimate x64 system, drivers seem to be very solid.

Other Thoughts: For the price I would recommend this product and am thinking of getting two more seeing as I have a quad PCI-E x16 mobo.

A.K.A. SUPER © CCNA, MCSE, A+, Linux+

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/22/2008 12:42:39 PM

Rating + 5 Excellent Card


Pros: Excellent value and speed. Works great with Need for Speed Pro Street.

Cons: None

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Windsong
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
2/20/2008 7:38:21 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: I bought this 2 weeks ago, when I upgraded from a x1900 AiW Radeon...and was floored that I could run Crysis at 1900x1200 in Dx9 (better than Xbox360!). No AA of course, shadows on medium and it ran at about 20fps which is fine for me (had to reduce to 1650 res in the "snow" level however, more of a limitation of my cpu I suspect). Runs very, very silent as well. My specs: 1.8ghz core 2, 3g ram, asus L2 MB. Gears of War (with Hitachi crash fix) ran like butter at 1900x1200 as well, every option on high (shadows too). The invent. icons in the Witcher were microscopic in size on my 24' Westinghouse pc monitor.

Cons: takes up the PCI slot directly below it since the fan is so big (hence the cool temps!). Crysis Dx10 was too choppy at 1900 however. Ran great at anything less than 1650 res in Dx10.

Other Thoughts: Had major problems when I accidentally installed the asus sound drivers which nuked my sound completely since I use Audigy. Always take care when choosing the "custom" install option and don't rush it. Used DriverCleaner to totally uninstall sound drivers since the Asus sound drivers (HD) wouldnt let me uninstall from the Add/Remove menu in XP!
Also..3 yr warranty with Asus as opposed to ONE yr with ATI.

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Spivonious
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/20/2008 8:54:58 AM

Rating + 5 Great card for the money!


Pros: This card idles at a very cool 30C. What a change from my last card (X1900GT) that idled at over 50C! The card is also very quiet, comes with a game, and can play Crysis at Very High quality at 1024x768 (I'd guess ~ 20-25fps).

Cons: Not the fastest card out there, but for the money it's a very good performer. For only a little more money you could get an HD3870 card which would give you a bit more speed.

Other Thoughts: If you're not a hardcore gamer but still like to play the latest games every so often, this is the card for you!

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Team100
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/17/2008 6:01:30 PM

Rating + 2 EAH3850 Locking Up


Pros: Very Quiet

Cons: Can not get the drivers to load, system locks up. Must Hard boot everytime. Tried another slot, but the system locks up when trying to load drivers automatically. (Windows XP Pro)

System MOBO - EVGA nForce 680i.
Any suggestions guys?

Other Thoughts: Contacting NewEgg in the AM. Need to get this fixed or replaced! Been Building systems for over 10 years, this doesn't happen often but when it does it's not fun!

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porkchop
Tech Level: somewhat low
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/17/2008 5:17:10 PM

Rating + 2 Did not work


Pros: Came with a free game, huge fan and ran cool.

Cons: The EAH3850 did not work out of the box. This was my first time building a rig from scratch. I had problems form the start because the computer would crash when I would start up a video game. After a months worth of swapping out different components I narrowed it down to the video card. I placed in a Nvidia 8600 and it worked great.

Other Thoughts: My specs were: Motherboard: ASUS M2R32-MVP
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz

I am sure it is a great card but it did not work for me.

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morphed
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/9/2008 5:43:51 PM

Rating + 4 Very good is the best choice out there for 3850


Pros: Was a late comer to the market and appears to be the best and maybe best cooling solution too. Stock clocks handles everything.

Cons: You will want to delete the smart doctor stuff. It can cause blue screens.

Other Thoughts: desktop / properties / settings /advanced/ asus/ also disabled splidid and gamer OSD to make sure blue screen didnt come back. It was a disp.dll and many people have blamed that on the smart doctor that I wasnt even using.

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Waffles
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/8/2008 11:51:18 AM

Rating + 5 Great performance, Great value


Pros: Awesome performance for the price, only slightly behind the HD 3870 in terms of performance for $50 less. The 512 MB of memory is definitely worth the extra 20 or so dollars over the 256 MB version. Comes with a free game valued at around $30 so it is kind of like you are only buying the card for 30 less than the price (if you want to see it that way). I'm able to play both Bioshock and COD4 at 1680x1050 on high to very high settings with good frame rates.

Cons: The box that it comes in is HUGE for a graphic card. Can't really say that it is a con, but I personally just do not like unnecessary packaging.

Other Thoughts: If you have the extra $50 to spare then i would just go with the 8800 GT, but if you are looking for a great card at mid range prices then i would recommend this one.

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mblue
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/8/2008 8:12:38 AM

Rating + 5 BB for the buck


Pros: Price, fairly quite, fairly cool and a free game.

Cons: None really.

Other Thoughts: This replaced my sons 7900gs that crawled on Crysis. Now he plays all on medium with no slow downs at all.

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Highlander1981
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/4/2008 9:01:24 PM

Rating + 5 ASUS EAH3850 512MB PCI EXPRESS 2.0


Pros: Best bang for the buck. Ability to setup in Crossfire mode when you have 2 of them. Comes with a game.

Cons: does not include the HDMI audio cable that you have to purchase separately.For connecting the sound out put to the card from either the motherboard or the sound card.

Other Thoughts: only have one of these cards right now plan on getting another later on.

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Capt. Beard
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/4/2008 5:47:54 PM

Rating + 5 Grand card


Pros: Runs fast, tolerable of faulty motherboard, very quiet, smooth sailing overall.

Cons: It's the size of an aircraft carrier, had to bend wires around it.

Other Thoughts: My motherboard's x16 slot didn't care for the card for some reason, so I stuck it in the x8 until a new, PCIE 2.0 compliant board comes tomorrow. Even in the x8 slot, she runs better than my old x1650, so here's to true workhorse power when I get the new setup in.

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Dan
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/4/2008 11:54:14 AM

Rating + 4


Pros: Great performance for the money, especially since it comes with a game.

Cons: Not good card for overclocking! I ran the auto overclock utility and it went really high. I was excited, until I went to play a game and it imediately crashed.. I could only o/c a little bit and remain stable.

Other Thoughts: Now that the prices have come down and availablity has gone up, I think I would have spent a little more for an 8800gt, but when I got this card they were hard to find and a lot more expensive.

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Dx
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/4/2008 6:59:37 AM

Rating + 4 Good card


Pros: It's fast, quiet and cool.

Cons: The big fan (about 4.5" diameter) covers up the below pcie slot, but i guess that can't be helped... Does not support older directx well, dx5 games have major graphics corruption and ATI tech support refuse to pass on the info to their driver development team. dx6 seemed to work in Bz2 ok.

Other Thoughts: This video card played @ 58.4fps (avg. from the graphics options test) in COH with everything maxed out Using a wolfdale E8400 3Ghz and 2GB of kingston 1066 ram (which i can only run at 1004 on a asus P5E)

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/2/2008 1:32:25 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Excellent Product(s) and the price was great. I was able to get 2 and set up the crossfire.

Cons: Manual was fairly useless. But if you have ever istalled anything in a computer it's not a big deal.

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Onus
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/29/2008 5:32:28 AM

Rating + 5 Very nice


Pros: Inaudible fan, but stays cool. Can be controlled with a popular 3rd-party utility. Fast in my games. Have had no GPU/Driver-related crashes on WinXP Pro.

Cons: None with the hardware; ATI needs to issue their own fan control software.

Other Thoughts: My primary game is Guild Wars, which is not a super-stressor, but since I don't play Crysis or Bioshock, this is all I need.

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Tony LeMans
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/26/2008 8:25:37 PM

Rating + 4 Great Card and Price


Pros: Best card right now 1/25/08 sitting at $200. UT3 full graphic runs flawless. Easy to install with zero issues. ASUS continues to earn my business.

Cons: none so far. Don't expect any considering it is an ASUS product. New Egg ships so fast, it makes it too easy to buy another card for crossfire mode...

Other Thoughts: This card doesn't really leave anything on the table. There are "bigger" cards out there, but not at $200. Put two of these cards together at $400...WOW! Do you need a card like this? well.. YES if you want to build a good gaming Rig!

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delmoux
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/24/2008 3:28:41 PM

Rating + 5 Good value 4 what it is & comes with


Pros: IMHO, Great cost to performance ratio. This is the card to get if it meets your budget requirements and a 8800 doesn't.

Cons: Can only play Crysis at low settings at 800x600 with a 5600x2 and 3gb ram.

Other Thoughts: I installed the latest Catalyst drivers at install. I'm happy with the card. Although I wish it had better performance for Crysis. The game is still playable, and the card is a good improvement from my 6600gt.

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Tony78ta
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/21/2008 11:31:49 PM

Rating + 3 Video issues


Pros: Great performance in COH and WoW. Also have it hooked up to my Pan. Plasma 42" with no issues. See cons

Cons: It randomly crashes with BSOD in COH and WoW. I updated drivers (only 1 available) and still get same thing. It's not running hot at all (120F max). No other issues with playing movies.ect. only from the Games.

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Shift
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/17/2008 9:26:51 PM

Rating + 5 Great card


Pros: Very fast, runs very cool. The Catalyst drivers have a lot of neat tools, including the ability to overclock somewhat (has an autotune function, but kept crashing my system after a while). I can run COD4 and Unreal Tournament 3 both at max settings, 1152x864 without any hiccups on stock speeds. At stock clock I got 8457 in 3DMark06, overclocked 9930.

Cons: PCB seems little more flimsy than my old TI4400, card droops slightly.

Other Thoughts: NOTICE: for people planning on running Vista: a bug exists for both ATI and NVIDIA that will at times make the screen flicker and a warning message pop up that says the video device failed and has recovered. This is just an inconvience in most cases, mine has never actually crashed in a game. Very rarely (only twice so far) it will cause a blue screen. This is not because of the video card, it is a Vista issue. This card was 100% stable in XP x86 & x64.

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Michael
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/16/2008 7:15:27 AM

Rating + 5 Great Card


Pros: Great card that runs all of my games on high quality settings at 1680*1050 with good fps.

Cons: All drivers,including ATI's 7.12, were unstable on my Vista Business 64-bit so i installed XP 64-bit in order to have a working computer, but i blame the drivers and not the product

Other Thoughts: Athlon 64 x2 4200+, 6 gigs ram, biostar ta690g, 700 watt raidmax

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Kevin
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/7/2008 8:12:22 AM

Rating + 5 Nice upgrade


Pros: Fast card uses little power, came with all the goodies and COH is addiciting. Quick install solid drivers so far. And as always Newegg rocked on the shipping side. - It appeared in the a HUGE box well protected and in pristine shape.

Cons: A little noisy but very tolerable. I run an air filter in my office that can easily drown this guy out.

Other Thoughts: I have it installed in a asus M2NPV-VM motherboard and the only problem is the heat sink/fan assembly blocks 2 of my sata ports. Additionally I had to give up a IDE port because the card just reached over the top of the IDE ports and the connector. With a cable installed the cable connector is 1/8 of an inch too tall so it would not allow the card to seat fully. This forced me to do some unanticipated hardware exhanges amongst my various machines to get it set up. So instead of rebuilding one machine I ended up having to rebuild 3 over the holidays lol oh well they needed xp flushed anyway.

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viC
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/28/2007 1:14:55 PM

Rating + 5 ASUS 3850 512mb ROCKS!


Pros: Coolest running 3850 out in the market. Fan blows much stronger then the last 3850 (sapphire which burned out on me) without having to tweak the fan settings. Ultra quite. I don't run crossfire cause I'm not much of a gamer, just needed a cool, reliable card.

Cons: then again, if it doesn't get hot so it cant cook me eggs...also, company of heroes game that came with it is sucks.

Other Thoughts: Get this card, it wont disappoint you in any way. Running E6850, Asus P5E, Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400, Silverstone NT01V2.0, this card, thermaltake 500w PSU, Antec P180 silver.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
12/23/2007 4:21:51 PM

Rating + 5 nice performance


Pros: 512 mb mem fram buffer. pciE 2.0

with my 6400x2 overcloked to 3.5ghz and my ddr2 800 oc to 1000 even i amd running call of duty 4 with this card maxed out 1600 x 1200 perfect

Cons: the card is factory OC to 720 and you can only unlock and overclock it 10 more mhz. ram maxed out also at 1900 OC

Other Thoughts: Great CARD for the Money. i think i need another one of these for crysis. no one graphi card can run crysis at full.

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I am... Bat Thumb.
Tech Level: average
Ownership: less than 1 day
12/19/2007 10:46:38 AM

Rating + 3 That black adapter is HDMI.


Pros: n/a

Cons: n/a

Other Thoughts: That black adapter you see in the picture, is indeed an HDMI adapter.
All these recent slew of video cards are great. (8800GT, 3870 and even the 3850)

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tony
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
12/18/2007 10:29:27 PM

Rating + 5 Is that an HDMI/DVI adapter?


Pros: n/a

Cons: No description for the adapters

Other Thoughts: Is that a DVI:HDMI adapter? I'm planning on hooking this up to my Panasonic Plamsa and it only has HDMI and RCA/Comp. inputs.

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