Palit AE/38700+HD52 Radeon HD 3870 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Great Card

Reviewed By: Shaun on 1/14/2009

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

Pros: I love this card. runs pretty cool with stock clocks, thanks to the huge heatsink and fan. It seems to get faster and faster with every driver update. I love the 6 channel surround sound built into the HDMI. I usually hook it up to my 55" LCD, have to use the scaling options in catalyst first, but it looks great, and sounds great, once it set up. Runs all new games, like dead space, crysis warhead, far cry 2, with a minimum of 30 frames, on high-max settings. There's also a cool looking frog on the box.

Cons: Huge heatsink, and i mean really mean huge. i have a pretty small case, and i had to move my PCI serial adapter to the other slot. make sure you have enough room on your motherboard, and case before you buy this card!

Other Thoughts: Not sure how, or why, but im using the windows 7 pre-beta, and after switching from vista to windows 7, i saw 4-8 fps increase in almost all my games. Im not sure if its the card, or windows itself, but i just wanted to put that out there.

Manufacturer Response:Glad you like the card!

All the benchmarks of Win7 I've seen show it runs faster than Vista.

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Reviewed By: on 1/1/2009

Tech Level: average - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: great card, runs quiet, has HDMI, 5.9 windows experience index.

Cons: none so far

Other Thoughts: I'm glad the manufacture reads these reviews. What kind of audio, if any, does the card pass thru the HDMI port. I'm looking at connecting the computer to my LCD TV.

Manufacturer Response:Thanks for noticing we care about what people have to say!

http://ati.amd.com/products/hd3000series.html

That is AMD's reference on the audio. It supports 5.1 surround sound. You will need to enable the AMD audio drivers from within the Windows audio control panel.

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Great Bargain

Reviewed By: howard E^2/R on 12/31/2008

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: 3870, huge heatsink, SUPER FAST GAMING, TECH SUPPORT (THANKS AGAIN FOR CROSSFIRE BRIDGE!)

Cons: Double wide card, runs HOT , no shroud fills case with hot air , using two in crossfire mode raises my cpu temp over 70 degrees C inless than 30 minutes, made a separator out of cardboard and duct tape to isolate cpu, northbridge, memory, and regulators from video cards! Cpu running at 48C now all day (AMD 6400X2)

Other Thoughts: Need single slot water block to reclaim PCI slots.

Manufacturer Response:Thanks for going Palit!

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