Aneesh Location:
india
Where Bought:
I bought it at a local store (Best Buy, Fry's)
Duration Used:
Less than a week
Technical Understanding:
I know the basics
About HD 3850
Date: October 6, 2009
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features, Easy to Overclock Cons: Runs Hot
Product Use
I recomend u to make a hd 4670 with 256 bit memory buswidth and all things same till now!it will have a great market for u AMD
"I think it is a midrange card which can play almost every games at high with antialiasing and antistropicfiltering!Any way i like this card very much!"
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Review 2 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
5
out of 5
Performance:
5
out of 5
Value:
4
out of 5
Quality:
5
out of 5
Jago Location:
Trinidad
Where Bought:
I bought it at a local store (Best Buy, Fry's)
Duration Used:
A few months now
Technical Understanding:
I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
Superb Performance!
Date: May 21, 2009
Pros: Fast, High Quality
Product Use
all my systems have had AMD processors and this is the first time ive used an ATI graphics card and it has totally gone passed my expectations.
watching dvds / blu ray. alot of 3d rendering
"i live in the caribbean where the average temperature is 30*+ and i dont have any sophisticated cooling for my system. But this card can take abuse, running 3d apps and the latest games all on high! no lag whatsoever. This is using the AGP bus! and i still get great fps. 2GB ram / 2.7ghz x2 athlon with this card is amazing.(i'm using windows 7 RC) As u can obviously see my so called gaming rig is pretty below average and i can still game with the highest settings.
pretty much anything except gta 4 and crysis.
crysis will run on medium settings @ 1680 x 1050 thouhg. no AA"
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Review 3 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
3
out of 5
Performance:
3
out of 5
Value:
4
out of 5
Quality:
3
out of 5
casper Location:
mi
Where Bought:
I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used:
Less than a month
Technical Understanding:
I know the basics
crashing
Date: April 4, 2009
Pros: Good Value Cons: Part Failure
Product Use
im a gamer need i say any more
"well i like this card but i have one problem with it ..it keep crashing in less then 5 min of play what can i do to fixes this problem any help would be nice ty"
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Review 4 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
5
out of 5
Performance:
5
out of 5
Value:
4
out of 5
Quality:
4
out of 5
brianthesnail Location:
liverppol ,england
Where Bought:
I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used:
A few months now
Technical Understanding:
I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
the best agp card to date !
Date: March 27, 2009
Pros: Fast, High Quality, Many Features, Energy Efficient
Product Use
for superior gaming on a agp based pc
"theres been many agp cards over the years ,some good and some absolute rubbish,however from the minute i installed the radeon HD3850 in my pc in knew i was in for something special the card itself is pretty big and has a single slot fan and heatsink,however its pretty long and you may need to move your hard drive down one bay so it will fit the drivers that come with the card are no good ,you need the "agp hotfix drivers" avalible from this site,these fix the problem with 2000 and 3000 series radeon agp cards as for power the HD3850 requires a minimum of 450watts ,however i am using a hiper 425watt psu without any problems,also make sure you have at least 20A on the +12v rail so in reflection the radeon HD3850 is a excellent card for agp boards and will run the latest of games with ease.i can run crysis on 1280x1024 on medium detail,good going for a agp card eh great agp card.petty it may be the last !"
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Review 5 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
5
out of 5
Performance:
5
out of 5
Value:
5
out of 5
Quality:
5
out of 5
ethar
What Amazing AGP Card
Date: March 12, 2009
Pros: Good Value, High Quality
"this display card is amazing i see many VGA Card in AGP but this one is very fast and very hard i have pc in 2.8 1 MB. Cash and 120 HDD And MB INTEL 865 GBF ram 2.5 GB With this card and in 3D MARK 2001 I HAVE 18009 Result. BUT in 3.4 2 MB Cash and 9400 NVIDIA AND 3 GB RAM GIGABYTE 945 HDD 320 GB ..THE Reshlt was 16500 ?? see why that is the best one but i have qus. why it read in vista 1 GB, But in 512 Mb, ??"
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Review 6 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
5
out of 5
Performance:
4
out of 5
Value:
3
out of 5
Quality:
4
out of 5
Zwarrior Location:
Costa Rica
Where Bought:
I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used:
A few months now
Technical Understanding:
I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
Own An AGP
Date: February 24, 2009
Pros: Good Value, High Quality, best agp card possible to find Cons: little expensive as there is 4k series
Product Use
Gaming in Windows Vista Ultimate Play Movies at 1920 X 1200
Virtualization for programming in Web Based apps simulating Server & Clients
"Bought it in Dec 08 to make the last possible upgrade to an AMD based PC with AGP port
The PC is an MSI AM2 with AMD X2 5000+ and 3850 AGP from Sapphire it stay running fine allowing me to work fast & play at great Hi Res since a year now
AMD Products gives nice price / Performance especially in countries like mine (CR) where acces to high end parts cost extra Bucks"
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Review 7 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
4
out of 5
Performance:
3
out of 5
Value:
3
out of 5
Quality:
3
out of 5
gamer Location:
il
Where Bought:
I bought it at a local store (Best Buy, Fry's)
Duration Used:
Over a year
Technical Understanding:
It's my job to know
Date: February 18, 2009
Pros: Good Value Cons: Not Fast Enough, Runs Hot
Product Use
I have always used ati products and will continue to do so
"I've owned this card for more than a year now and I'am having heat issues with some games.It has been a great card except that now it's running hot.Background and building go black."
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Review 8 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
5
out of 5
Performance:
5
out of 5
Value:
5
out of 5
Quality:
3
out of 5
KIRIAKOS - GR Location:
Greece
Where Bought:
I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used:
Less than a month
Technical Understanding:
It's my job to know
A worthy AGP card ..
Date: February 10, 2009
Pros: Fast, Good Value, Energy Efficient Cons: coolers noise
Product Use
I work with 2D graphic editors , gaming , and videos .
"Never liked AMD until now , the HD3850 AGP looks like a sweet dream for people who still have worthy AGP based systems.
After all this years , i am finally able to enjoy the true power of my P4 3.2G and ASUS P4C800-E , beautiful 3D environment , at high resolutions , even at 1600x1200 .
DVD movies looks nicer , and at 2D the VGA uses low power , with tolerable noise ( Sapphire 3850) .
From my Nvidia 6800GT , the HD3850 are the fresh breath that i was looking for."
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Review 9 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
5
out of 5
Performance:
5
out of 5
Value:
5
out of 5
Quality:
5
out of 5
Joki Location:
Stockholm, Sweden
Where Bought:
I bought it at a local store (Best Buy, Fry's)
Duration Used:
A few months now
Technical Understanding:
I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
Best card i have ever owned
Date: January 28, 2009
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Easy to Overclock, cheap Cons: the stock heatsink
Product Use
Games
"Bought the 512 mb version of this card and what a joy! Its the best card i have ever owned and all games i play flow like a dream. I recently upgraded my cpu from a 5000+ to a P2 920 so now i have my dream computer! :)"
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Review 10 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
3
out of 5
Performance:
3
out of 5
Value:
3
out of 5
Quality:
1
out of 5
motoleng Location:
Kedah, Malaysia
Where Bought:
I bought it at a local store (Best Buy, Fry's)
Duration Used:
A few months now
Technical Understanding:
It's my job to know
Temperature Issue
Date: January 3, 2009
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Pros: Energy Efficient Cons: Runs Hot
Product Use
when full load is very high temp... compare to Nxxxx and hopefully amd's can run more and more simulation
"when full load is very high temp... compare to Nxxxx"
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Review 11 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
5
out of 5
Performance:
5
out of 5
Value:
5
out of 5
Quality:
5
out of 5
pna Location:
Huntsville, AL
Where Bought:
I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used:
A few months now
Technical Understanding:
It's my job to know
Best Upgrade Ever
Date: December 26, 2008
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality
Product Use
High Speed graphics, rendering, movie conversion/editing, movie playing.
"I replaced my Nvidia card with the HD3850 and improved my Vista Experience from 3.4 to 5.3 with just this upgrade. I was happy to find that ATI still supports AGP with the new GPU where their competitors have dropped AGP support. This may be the last upgrade path for this particular hardware set, but it will extend it's useful life for another couple of years."
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Review 12 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
5
out of 5
Performance:
4
out of 5
Value:
5
out of 5
Quality:
5
out of 5
Gammit10 Location:
Detroit, MI
Where Bought:
I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used:
Less than a month
Technical Understanding:
I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
Fastest AGP Video Card Available
Date: December 21, 2008
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality
"I was amazed to find such a fast AGP-slot card. I am one of the few that has held out on upgrading to PCI-express, and this product allowed me to upgrade the only component I needed instead of overhauling my entire computer."
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Review 13 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
5
out of 5
Performance:
4
out of 5
Value:
4
out of 5
Quality:
5
out of 5
Jimmy Location:
Oak Hill, WV
Where Bought:
I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used:
Less than a month
Technical Understanding:
It's my job to know
Love this ATI 4850
Date: December 20, 2008
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features, Easy to Overclock, good bang for my buck Cons: Runs Hot
Product Use
AMD X2 4800 and 3850 on my ASUS motherboard make a great multimedia computer
"It does everything I could ask for windows and my games look great"
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Review 14 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
5
out of 5
Performance:
5
out of 5
Value:
4
out of 5
Quality:
5
out of 5
Dalkenfaux Location:
Savannah GA
Where Bought:
I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used:
A few months now
Technical Understanding:
I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
Wise Investment
Date: December 19, 2008
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features, Easy to Overclock
Product Use
gaming
"I had built a fairly decent system right when the pci express technology was coming out so unfortunately i went with agp had struggled to find a card that would allow me to game current titles AOC Crysis etc this card did the trick i now run AOC at high settings 50 fps up from 15 fps with the competition best agp card on medium settings . if your like me and have top notch but older system and would like to get a little more time out of it then this card is definitely the way to go"
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Review 15 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
5
out of 5
Performance:
4
out of 5
Value:
5
out of 5
Quality:
5
out of 5
ingway Location:
Shreveport, LA
Where Bought:
I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used:
A few months now
Technical Understanding:
It's my job to know
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features, Easy to Overclock, quiet Cons: Runs Hot, some problems maintaining rendering under pressure
Product Use
High yield gaming visuals and multiple GUI/monitor for playing games while watching movies/series ... and no running games and movies simultaneously doesn't heavily affect the FPS on your games - if anything i've seen maybe a 3 FPS drop.
"with the release of new games for the christmas holiday - you begin to get worried whether or not your video card will run anything at a frame rate that's worth playing. i bought the ASUS built version of this card with 1GB RAM onboard in february 2008 and here it is almost a year later and i'm still running pretty much everything with full detail at 1440x900 (with exception to some game's anti-aliasing). great purchase - and all things withstanding a very well performing card."
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Review 16 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
4
out of 5
Performance:
5
out of 5
Value:
5
out of 5
Quality:
4
out of 5
Jay Location:
Toronto, ON
Where Bought:
I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used:
Over a year
Technical Understanding:
I know the basics
3850 Crossfire
Date: December 19, 2008
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality Cons: Runs Hot, overclocking tends to heat up on either card
Product Use
Gaming, Movies and Internet.
"My first Crossfire setup combine of Sapphire 3850 and Palit 3850 both 256mb. This combination able to play any games that I have run so far from Mass Effect, Lotro, Vanguard and AoC at 1680, 1050 with max graphics on all. Best combo for the money."
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Review 17 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
5
out of 5
Performance:
4
out of 5
Value:
4
out of 5
Quality:
5
out of 5
Boombox Location:
St. Louis, MO
Where Bought:
I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used:
Over a year
Technical Understanding:
It's my job to know
GeCube 3850 TurboX-III
Date: December 19, 2008
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Energy Efficient Cons: limited production
Product Use
I use my whole AMD/ATi system for graphical editing and gaming. It does everything I need it to, at a fraction of the cost of the other guys, with performance that's just slightly behind. A better question to ask me would be; Why pick AMD/ATi? I'm comfortable with the hardware from both companies from many years of experience. I also prefer going with their products - the pricing is more fair for the performance you get, you're not gouged $7 per extra 1 frame per second. I've owned products from the other manufacturers and I just was not happy with the money I put out for the slight increase in performance.
"This card is very nice. I picked it up when the 3800 series debuted, and for what you get, the price was right (smack in between the stock 3850 and 3870). This is a factory over clocked card, pretty close to the specifications of a stock 3870. The heatsink/fan combo is a dual slot setup similar to the dual slot 3870 stock combination. The temps seem high, but I've read several reports of this being normal. I have yet to take the over clock of the card higher because my A64x2 5400+ BE @250x12 is holding it back - so no need for a graphics card over clock. Any game runs smooth as butter at 1280x1024/4xWTAA/16xAS.
I'm currently running a 790FX board with plans to get 3 more cards, most likely stock 3870's since they're getting really cheap. I would also need a phenom x3 or x4 to see the results of that, plus a monitor that can do higher resolutions.
The only downside is that I have found for the U.S. consumer, there was/is a limited production, and finding more GeCube 3850's is almost impossible. No bother, just grab some 3870's if you have this card."
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Review 18 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
5
out of 5
Performance:
4
out of 5
Value:
5
out of 5
Quality:
5
out of 5
Shadowfold Location:
Omaha, NE
Where Bought:
I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used:
A few months now
Technical Understanding:
I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
Great card for its time
Date: December 19, 2008
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features, Easy to Overclock, Energy Efficient Cons: Not Fast Enough
Product Use
Gaming, movies, pr0n(jk :p)
"The ATi Radeon HD 3850 512mb was a beast of a gaming card when it came out. I bought one a few days after they showed up on newegg and got a HIS IceQ3 HD 3850 and it was a BEAST. Played all games at max settings and I was watching HD movies with ease. Only a few games ran with problems. World In Conflict ran sort of bad along with Crysis along with some other games but I got 30-40fps in pretty much everything else."
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Review 19 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
4
out of 5
Performance:
4
out of 5
Value:
4
out of 5
Quality:
5
out of 5
Beertown Location:
Milwaukee
Where Bought:
I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used:
Over a year
Technical Understanding:
I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
Pretty nice card
Date: November 21, 2008
Pros: Good Value, High Quality, Easy to Overclock Cons: Runs Hot
Product Use
Have an AMD 2.2 Ghz processor overclocked to 2.48 and the Saphirre Raedon 3850 overclocked, but I am still using Rivatuner for fan control usually just manually set it up higher for gaming lower when doing nothing. Use this rig for gaming mostly Bioshock, Team Fortress 2, Left4Dead, Civ games and the like with no issues high quality and good frame rate. Love the card until I get my 4870 x2.
"These cards are pretty nice for the price point at this time. Played quite a few games on it never had an issue. Only thing I can say was the fan controls on the Saphirre card I own was a bit lacking. Card would get extremely hot without using a third party program to up the fan speed. Bioshock nearly melted my card until then with everything turned on."
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Review 20 for ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Overall:
5
out of 5
Performance:
4
out of 5
Value:
4
out of 5
Quality:
4
out of 5
a person Location:
Westminster, CA
Where Bought:
I bought it online (TigerDirect, Newegg, CDW)
Duration Used:
Over a year
Technical Understanding:
I'm a geek and totally get this stuff
Specs
Date: November 20, 2008
Pros: Fast, Good Value, High Quality, Many Features, Easy to Overclock, Energy Efficient, hl2 at hq yay!!
Product Use
GAMES Xd
"Plays most games at med-high settings. Great for oc"
