HIS Radeon HD 3870 DirectX 10.1 H387Q512NP 512MB 256-Bit GDDR4 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support IceQ3 Turbo Video Card

Pros: Vista support, compatibility with the ASUS P5E, and high clock speeds appealed to me with this board. It really shows, too. Battlefield 2142 runs flawlessly and smoothly, as does ET:QW. The huge fan assembly and heat sinks keep it all running cool in the meantime. No need to mod your card.

Cons: The foremost issue that anyone has every had with ATI cards since 2000 still plagues ATI boards to this day. I'm talking, of course, about the drivers. Unless ATI has their stamp on it, certain effects just won't display properly. For example, in Tabula Rasa, dynamic lighting just doesn't work on an ATI card. Catalyst is in version 7.11 now and there's no support for dynamic lighting?

Overall Review: Don't let my one con steer you away from buying this card. The reasons I bought this card were for compatibility with the ASUS P5E, clock/core speed, along with the biggest bang for buck. I'm quite happy with it and I'm used to dealing with ATI's awful driver support. Just remember to turn off some of the AI settings in Catalyst Control Center and let your game tweak the settings. There's also a standalone driver that excludes CCC which I'm wishing I stuck with. I'm hoping that the new Omegadrivers for Vista come out soon since I find I have fewer problems with them.

Pros: plays crysis great, all the important stuff is on high the rest medium at 30-35 fps. great upgrade from an x1650, which struggled to get 30fps on all low while overclocking the holygrail out of it. Once I water cool this beast overclocking this thing might be pretty interesting. And 4 in xfire *salivates* mmmmm.....

Cons: If I turn aa on at all crysis game crashes, the crysis hotfix on the amd site helps this alot, but it still gives me a "VPU reset" message and says the hardware quite responding to the drivers. It runs at 55C with %100 load so I don't think it's overheating

Overall Review: If you don't want the card to fry then you HAVE to set fan speed up. People say this card is like a vaccuum with fan at %100 but I can't even hear it unless it's up all the way and its barely audible even then. I don't like how I had to try a bunch of drivers and settings to get it working right... whatever happened to plugging it in putting the cd in and the product working right? seems like you gotta' tweak all this new stuff too much

Pros: For the most part, this card was very easy to install, and I would recomend anyone to use the HIS drivers as the ATI updated versions will not let you overclock this card and it will remain at its defualt. Overall I was happy with this card, and my games looked great at 1400x900 however I found the fatal fan flaw to late and I belive this is what mad this card go down. Luckily newegg saved me by shipping out a replacement for me do to many complaints, and not being able to get in contact with the manufacter aftet numerous attempts.

Cons: If you do buy this card, please run a fan program and increase the speed to 100 percent, it will be loud, however you wont run into what I did. Also good luck contacting the manufactuer as they are based in China, and don't respond to emails accordingly. I would suggest New Eggs warranty for sure on this card.

Overall Review: With all the New Cards coming up its a hard thing to stay current and really get the benfit of all this GPU power. You could go the X2 way, however I dont see the benefit if you dont have the monitor to support it. I ran all games, except crisis on high and they looked great. have always bought ATI, but my next card though will be an Nvidia, though do to ATI slacking.

Pros: HIS product, looks nice, IceQ3 cooler quiet at stock settings.

Cons: Every game crashed! Had to use RTuner 2.7 to back OC to 835 core/1159 memory & set fan up to 63% (still quite, anything more is annoying). Gave it a poor rating because you pay a premiuim for the factory OC, next time will do it myself & not be disappointed at the money spent.

Overall Review: I still have faith in HIS, they just need to do more R&D if they are going to put out a stable OC'd product. Crysis mostly high settings & NFSPS high settings, UT3 high settings all with AA on.

Pros: Hahaha, cool design and thats about it.

Cons: This thing wouldnt last on 90% of my games: WoW-crashed, WiC-crashed, CoD's-crashed, CoH-crashed, BF2-plays fine. With WiC, I dropped ALL graphics settings to low and it plays fine. I adjust pixel setting to medium and freaking fan jumped to 100% useage and crashed. I took out of case and thing was still SOOOOO HOT after time it takes to disconnect everything and open case and remove card, bout 5 min. RMA this card and getting another. if fails, going elsewhere.

Overall Review: 700W PSU, Abit IX38 Quad GT, 2G-GSkill DDR2 800MHZ, 3.0GHZ OC to 3.5GHZ E6850 CPU

Pros: Good engine and solid design. Excellent cooling system design.

Cons: THESE CARDS HAVE KNOWN ISSUES WITH THE FAN-SPEED REGULATOR. Bought 2 of these cards to run in Crossfire. Terrible issues with HIS drivers even after clean re-install. Main problem is that many of these cards' fans never cycle above 25% stock.Something in the BIOS is missing because driver changes do not fix.Card starts out booting up fine. But, as the card comes under load, the fan stays at 25% and the card's heat climbs. When the card gets too hot, it fails.Total VPU failure to black screen and then Mobo kicks in to re-boot. Many owners of these cards have reported this issue, and not just in HIS (ASUS and Sapphire also).

Overall Review: This problem CAN be adjusted with 3rd party software (Riva Tuner, etc.) However, if you've already overheated the card several times not knowing what's up, then the card may already be damaged. However, in using 3rd party software to change fan speed, you void warranty. 1 card is fried, and the other is okay if fan speed is at 100%. HIS customer support sucks, and getting an RMA is tedious. So, I spent almost $600 for 2 cards, neither of which have working fan speed regulators and 1 of which is fried and needs total replacement and the other that requires manual fan control with 3rd party software. Nice going, ATI and HIS. Ugh!

Pros: It's very quiet, uses less power and runs fairly cool. Great looking card and nifty multi-purpose tool included with the card.

Cons: Where to start...I installed this card into my mobo's master PCI-E slot and connected to another older HIS HD 3870 for Crossfire. I started up my system and it crashed the video driver right away and it recovered on its own. I rebooted my system and my display went crazy with all kinds of lines on my display even doing so during post. I tried it as a single card and it just gave me fits even after updating to the newest Catylst drivers.

Overall Review: I've always had pretty good results with HIS product until now. This is the second HIS HD 3870 I've had to go the RMA route with. The last one was paired with an identical HIS HD 3870 but wasn't an IceQ3 and I had to return it twice only the second time I ended up with a refund because the first version of the card was no longer available. I still wanted to run Crossfire so I purchased this card thinking it would do the trick. I was wrong, we'll see what happens when I get the replacement.

Pros: Good idea very very poor execution. Ineffectively overclocked 850mhz. Declock it as soon as you get the chance with revatuner to 775mhz also apply 100% fan load with it.

Cons: Questionable heatsink material its painted 100%. How do i know? Well i took it off and cut a pease off of it. The fins of heatsink are not molded into a base, doesnt allow smoothe heat conduction. Go with the alternative. I ordered vf 1000. At 775mhz 100% fan speed the ccc shows 44c idle. Ridiculous.

Overall Review: I love the desighn but its a no go. I do not recomend you to buy this particular brand. Im waiting on vf 1000 so i can drop temperature and clock it back a notch. Otherwise with the other heatsink and appropriate overclock this card for a lack of a better word perfect. At 850mz and 1170 ram 3dmark06 graphycs test on 1280 by 768 resolution this card gives 5200 and change score. Preety nice.