sapphire radeon hd3850 512mb gddr3 dual dvi-i / tvo agp graphics card
7/01/2010
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Delivering Mayhem to the Mainstream Long thought to be the market of the conservative gamer, the affordable mainstream products, which use to suffer only adequate performance, now experiences a frame rate revival with the SAPPHIRE HD 3850. Built upon the award winning Radeon HD 3850 core, the SAPPHIRE 3850 offers a comprehensive feature-set that eclipses previous and current mainstream offerings. Unleash the enthusiast inside you with support for advanced technologies such as DirectX® 10 and Shader Model 4 support, integrated HDCP support for Blu-ray¿/HD DVD decoding and for extreme enthusiast, Jam a SAPPHIRE HD 3850 into your rig and still have some coin left over to buy that title you have been waiting for!…….
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Technical Details
- AGP 4X/8X bus interface
- 256-bit GDDR3 memory interface
- Microsoft DirectX 10.1 support
- OpenGL 2.0 support
- Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
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2009-12-05
By thersites
The good news and bad news about this card:
The good news - great card! I bought it as the “last best” videocard for my AGP motherboard - I took the advice on tom’s hardware and got this card. And it raised my performance hugely (my old video card was a 128MB GeForce), with no problems. It’s a little tricky getting the latest drivers (best bet is to go to sapphire tech: [...]), but otherwise no problems.
The bad news is - they don’t really tell you (and the manual is also very cryptic about it), but it turns out it needs _2_ 4-pin power supply connectors fed into it. As my old video card needed _0_ such power supply connectors, this was an issue :). It’s easily remedied by buying power supply splitter cables, which only cost about $4 (look at the ‘people who bought this also bought’ section), but if you don’t order them in advance, and you’re not near a Fry’s, you may have bought this video card and be unable to install it.
2009-11-30
By A Sapphire user (Portland, OR)
Happened to find out the Sapphire card doesn’t natively support for the max resolution of the most common 22″ monitor. You have to settle with the low resolution for the picture ratio to be right. The Sapphire customer support seems to be totally ignorant/arrogant, and can’t provide any information other than “This is your monitor’s issue”. It’s such an experience of frustration that I would say goodbye ever to Sapphire/ATI
2009-11-20
By Fred Ross (Sun City, AZ)
Great product ! exceeds expectations for old style AGP configured white box - great great !
2009-09-15
By Douglas Paul (Melbourne, FL USA)
Being stuck with a motherboard with an AGP video slot, I thought I’d be stuck with 128MB VRAM forever, or until I shelled out the bucks for a new board. Following the recommendations of an MMORPG friend, I ordered this card. After installing the hardware and the drivers, I immediately loaded Age Of Conan (which is notorious for laughing at sub-par video cards), and my jaw dropped. The rendering speed and the detail were amazing. Unlike a previous card bought from a third party, this one didn’t crash every 20 minutes. I couldn’t be more pleased. Highly recommended.
2009-09-15
By J. Ascencio (West Covina, CA)
I have an HP a250n Pentium 4HT 2.60mhz with 1GB RAM running Windows 7. I’ve been thinking about buying a new PC, but figured it would be WAY cheaper to just upgrade my video card. After searching around for AGP4x/8x video cards, I found that the HD3850 got the most praise out of the other 512mb cards, so I decided to give it a shot. As soon as I took the HD3850 out of the box, I new I was in for something awesome. When I switched out my NVIDIA GeForce5200 128MB card to the HD 3850, the FPS on Doom 3 sky rocketed… Not to mention overall pc performance. Also, Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead ran a smooth 30FPS at 1024×768. This card gave new life to my PC. Dual DVI, S-Video, Dual monitor support… But no 1080p. Only thing is that you have to get a 450w or greater power supply with 30Amps on 12 volt with 2×4 power connector recommended. If you’re looking into getting one of these, you might want to do some research before it arrives at your doorstep, so that you have everything you need to install it and have it up and running in no time without any issues.
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