The ATI Radeon HD 3850 allows you to experience the power of HD with graphics processing designed for how you work and play. Advance to the next generation of HD game performance and life-like realism thanks to DirectX 10.1 capabilities and plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU upgradeability. Watch the latest Blu-ray and HD-DVD videos in full 1080p HD- and upscale beyond - without placing huge demands on your CPU. Enjoy break-through efficiency with more processing performance per watt and energy-saving features to help save you money.
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 recom-mended (550 Watt and two 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX)
Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
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 are required
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Rated by yogode, January 19, 2010
This card is one massive graphic card. This card eats up two slots in my case. but i use this for crossfire so i needed additional two more spaces. So, i needed four slots in my case. This runs great in crossfire.
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Rated by Goofy, September 26, 2009
Runs good and cool for a workstation card. Did not work in Win 7, XP, or Vista 64 bit games for my son. Freezing, crashing constantly if try to play games (several different ones). Tried all forms of drivers, fixes, OS's - no go. Do not get for gaming !!
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Rated by Cisco Kidd, June 15, 2009
I needed this to replace a dead Diamond HD3850 I picked up used , Wanted to find a matching card since the Diamond are single slot cards. UNable to find but low and behold for $70 plus tax this is a decent deal. If you have a Crossfire board and have a 3850 256ddr3 this is a cheap ugrade to run SLI. 2 of these will play games up to 1920x1200 with no detail. Interestingly enough the Diamond 3850 256 was equally as fast as an 8800gts and in some cases beat it so 2 of these will be decent enough until later in the year when I will sell them off and grab a used GTX275 or 4890. Really for $70 plus tax you can not do much better and 2 at 150 gives you better performance than a 9800gtx+ but less ram. So far with what I have quickly tested the 256ddr3 has not been an issue. Check it out and I can say it is true, newer games such as Far Cry 2 is playing well at 1920x1200 on Vista 64 with Cat 9.5
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Rated by Oelmuvun, March 5, 2008
As has been said before, it is not a HD 3870 or 8800GT/GTS but it does blow the geforce 8600 cards away with ease.
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Rated by coolme, February 23, 2008
I got this a few days before the 512mb 8800gt were on sale for $10 more than this card. Now I wish I waited instead. This card falls somewhere between 'decent' and 'excellent' in that it's good for all the older games, but chokes on all the newer ones. This card is known to run HOT, it idles at 60 degrees and get creep up to 80+ degrees under load (I honestly fear that the solder on my card is gonna melt at times), considering that this card consumes the least power of all cards in its class, I'd have to say visiontek should've included a better cooler for this card. Oh, and I lost my black box card, which sucks. :(
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Rated by bthacker, February 9, 2008
This is a Very good card that comes with a great price. It plays all my games at a decent graphics setting some where between Medium and High. I am very happy with this purchase. I would recommend this card to anyone wanting to build a budget gaming computer or use it for a HTCP, I would defiantly buy again or another ATI product.
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Rated by Philippe_R, December 11, 2007
Very good card, if you can wait go for the 3870, I got the 3850 cos they were out of stock for the 3870, but I ordered my 3870 today, with crossfire X you can get 4 different card on the same mobo. Running crysis at medium setting in 1024x768, I can run it higher but its not smooth enough I need more ram(just ordered), to run it at very high & 1280x1024. On GA-MA790FX-DQ6, phenom 9600 e 2.45ghz 2gig ram 8500. Ill overclock more once I get my new heatsink. GFX temp is around 45 on full load! CPU is sitting around 30-35.
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Rated by Marco66615, December 6, 2007
Upgraded from 8600 gts oc, what an upgrade! Very fast card for the price, silent as could get. Was not even able to play crysis in 1024*768 with my 8600gts at medium settins, and now same resolution and high setting except for AA and AF, play really smooth. Good performance for your buck.
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Rated by yogode, January 19, 2010
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