DIAMOND Viper Radeon HD 3850 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 3850PE3512O
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Reviews(68)
Excellent purchase for about 80% of top-of-the-line (single card) performance. Runs nice and cool (35c idle, ~50c after a few hours of Crysis). Does not exhibit the reported fan control issues of 256MB 3850s. Installed and runs flawlessly on nForce4 mobo and with even a 400w PSU.
Catalyst drivers use ~20MB more RAM than Forceware. Adaptive AA does not work with Guild Wars (Catalyst 7.12). Catalyst Control Center requires .NET 2.0 unless you use ATI Tray Tools which has not been updated for 38x0 support yet.
Board runs @ stock 3850 clocks (don't know why New Egg doesn't say) and is ~1/2 inch longer than the 7800GT it replaced. X2 3800+ @ 2.4, Asus A8N-E, 2GB OCZ Plat r2 DDR400, 400w Antec Smart Power v2, 2x Seagate SATA drives + BenQ DVD-RW, X-Fi ExtremeMusic, Xp Pro Sp3 RC.
factory overclocked, the card seems well build material wise.
like many people here, the video driver crashed constantly in game. And the card fan is noisy compare to other similar performance card.
Did some research and find the the over clock setting with this card is a little off, core is too fast and memory is too slow. After setting to the reference number, all crash go away. 725 -> 720 for the core, 900 -> for the memory. New setting has never crashed my video driver since then.
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Website: https://diamondmm.com/
Support Phone: 1-818-534-1414
Features & Details
- 512MB 256-Bit GDDR3
- 2 x DVI
- 320 Stream Processors
- PCI Express 2.0 x16
Specifications
| Brand | DIAMOND |
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| Series | Viper |
| Model | 3850PE3512O |
| Interface | PCI Express 2.0 x16 |
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| Chipset Manufacturer | AMD |
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| GPU | Radeon HD 3850 |
| Stream Processors | 320 Stream Processors |
| Memory Size | 512MB |
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| Memory Interface | 256-Bit |
| Memory Type | GDDR3 |
| DirectX | DirectX 10.1 |
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| OpenGL | OpenGL 2.0 |
| DVI | 2 x DVI |
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| TV-Out | HDTV / S-Video / Composite Out |
| RAMDAC | 400MHz |
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| Max Resolution | 2560 x 1600 |
| CrossFireX Support | Yes |
| Cooler | With Fan |
| Operating Systems Supported | Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) Windows Vista Ready |
| System Requirements | AMD Athlon or Intel Pentium 4 PCI Express based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard 450 Watt or greater power supply with 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express power connector recommended (550 Watt for ATI CrossFireX with two 6-pin connectors) 1GB of system memory Installation software requires CD-ROM drive DVD playback requires DVD drive Blu-ray / HD DVD playback requires Blu-ray / HD DVD drive For a complete ATI CrossFireX system, a second ATI Radeon HD 3850 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per board (included) are required |
| Dual-Link DVI Supported | Yes |
| Windows Vista | Certified for Windows Vista |
| HDCP Ready | Yes |
| Features | Direct X 10.1 / Shader Model 4.1 ATI Crossfire X Multi-GPU Support for highly scalable performance 55nm process technology ATI Avivo HD Video and Display Technology Game Physics processing capability Up to 24X Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing Built-in HDMI with Multi-channel 5.1 surround audio Support for the ATI Radeon DVI to HDMI adapter Unified Video Deoder (UVD) for Blu-ray and HD DVD ATI PowerPlay energy conserving technology |
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| Package Contents | 3850PE3512O Driver Disk User Manual HDTV Cable S-Video and Composite Cable S-Video to Composite Adapter Power Cable DVI to VGA/D-sub Adapter DVI to HDMI Adapter CrossFire Bridge |
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| First Listed on Newegg | January 03, 2008 |
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