Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features, Energy Efficient

"Ive been a hardcore gamer for over 10 years. Having tried ATI products AND Nvidia products, I would highly reccomend the ATI Radeon HD 3870 graphics card. Having cost only $100 and change, it is well worth its weight. I play the latest and greatest, and most graphically demanding games there are, and this puppy provides without question."

Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Easy to Overclock, Energy Efficient, works in hackintosh
Cons: Too Basic, no mac utility

"I'm a Hackintosh user. That means I'm running Apple's Mac OS X on regular PC hardware. Although it's not designed originally for being used on a Mac OS X system, my ATI Radeon HD 3870 works great. I have virtually no problems. Although my TV-out doesn't work right now, I don't expect flawless performance on a "hacked" machine.

Works well and I'm pretty happy with it. My 8800GT gave me horizontal tearing in Mac OS X, but the 3870 doesn't, so that's a good thing. I haven't gamed with this much, but it seems sufficient. Don't expect to turn everything up to max on Crysis, but then again, who can?"

Pros: Fast

"this is a excellent card run all of my game at high quality except crysis case crysis graphic was mostly for nvidia pertty lame
would recommend it to anyone"

Pros: Good Value, High Quality, Easy to Overclock, Energy Efficient, easy to disassemble/re-assemble for cleaning, runs cool even on oc configuration, separate heatsinks on gpumemorypower circuitry
Cons: Not Fast Enough, game titles prefer nvidia over ati, fan noise (at 100% duty cycle)

"They say that the 3800 series is dead in the water the moment it got launched. I say never underestimate a product until it has been marinated for a while.

My tech supplier recently sold me an MSI Radeon 3870 OC version (V120 model - 512MB GDDR4, PCI-E2.0 X16) at a sale price, almost too good to pass up.

I was doubtful at first because I knew it wouldnt stand up with the 9800GTX or with the 8800GT but I still gave it the benefit of the doubt.

What made me GET this product was its ease of disassembly for cleaning (In Manila, temperatures here average 25-30 deg C, fan vents often get clogged by dust and debris hence constant cleaning is a regimen for OC enthusiasts like me.) It has a separate heatsink for the GPU, RAM and Power Circuitry (unlike NVidia that's unified and one huge heatsink for everything). It also features copper heatsinks over aluminum which is far more expensive, and im impressed with the liberal use of thermal pads instead of themal compounds on the memory and power circuitry which makes cleaning even more pleasurable.

Performance wise, it blows off an OC'd 9600GT, but it still doesnt hold much competition to an 8800GT more so a 9800GTX.

I am not surprised because the gaming titles are biased towards NVidia GPUs.

But believe me, gaming is one thing, maintenance is another - whenever I pull out my NVidia cards to be cleaned (usually every month) I keep on saying to myself that ATI did a better job on designing the stock thermal solution which makes it easier to clean the PCB of dust and debris.

It also overclocks like crazy .. except that the fan noise becomes irritating once it hits 100% duty cycle. But we cant have it all. Fan noise is the least of my concerns during daytime since our place is noisy during the day anyway

But this 3870 is paving the way for me to upgrade to a 4850 and 4870 (to replace my 8800GT and 9800GTX respectively) and hopefully its soon.

ATI, thank you for designing the Radeon 3870's thermal solution that way. You made a geek that's into clean and green very happy."

Pros: has a nice color
Cons: Part Failure

"Runs kind of quirky on a Mac - and forget about new drivers they are nowhere to be found. You can only get info from sales."

Pros: Good Value
Cons: Not Fast Enough

This customer did not provide a text review.

Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Easy to Overclock, Energy Efficient
Cons: Too Basic

"AWESOME Card!
runs everything i throw at it
1920*1200
its a beastly card"

Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Easy to Overclock

"I recently upgraded my video card from a 8800GTX to a 3870HD. the difference is amazing. i could not play crysis at all on the old card, however now i can play it on high buttery smooth. I have Folding@Home running all the time,except for Crysis time, and i have no issues with other games. Great card and i will be buying a 2nd card soon for some sweet Crossfire action."

Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality

"I have two of these running in cross fire.Installed one in a new system and got it up and running.Installed with no problems useing drivers downloaded from AMD website. Then installed second card in crossfire. Works great!Vista installed the second card in seconds.A great card for the money."