Any Radeon 3850 users?

[Private Who?]

I now have a 7600GT in WinXP using a 1440x900 19" widescreen.

There are alot better cards out there now for CHEAP....but after reading these forums about the 8800's I am thinking about going with this card:

Asus Radeon 3850 512mb
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121219

Anybody else have this or a similar card? Any issues with RO there?

 

[Zetsumei]

soon ati will release the 4XXX series and the 4850 should go for about the same price as the 3850 msrp. I'd wait a bit your vidcard should be able to hold up if ro is the game you want it for you can probably afford to wait because it should still run pretty ok. Around end of may/ early juni amd will bring the new vidcards.

 

[IVIARSHALL]

Cool thanks for information Zetsu, because i also wanted to get that card. So i will wait ) and really same price? Thats pretty cool!

 

[Private Who?]

Yeah thanks Zetsumei ... I had no idea the 4000 series was this close to release. 45nm process and 480 pipes! WOW. I sure HOPE the price is pretty close to the 3850. Within 30-40 dollars anyway. In gfx cards, I sorta take a middle road approach. I want something fast, but not necessarily the fastest. I don't plan on buying Crysis in other words. Moderate power consumption and heat output are also factors. I tend to think of value as "fps per watt".

Sure my 7600 is OK...but I have to turn off HDR, and even then there are some maps I get sorta slow on. But overall for what I paid for it...its been a great bump over the 9600XT it replaced.

I just want to get a card I can play RO on ALL THE WAY UP and get solid 60 fps. And I'd like to be able to do the same thing with CoD4 as well. And DoD:S. And also...after 5 years of waiting....I'd like to turn up Combat Flight Simulator 3 up to all 5's and load in the 32-bit aircraft textures. (And then be albe to play it.)

Thanks again!
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[Zetsumei]

the 4000 series will use the same 55nm manufacturing process as the 3000 series i believe.

MSRP prices are thesame but the current 3XXX series are a bit under msrp at most stores. Nobody knows anything about the performance but when its this close its worth a wait. The first to release in may will probably be the 4850 about the 4870 it might be somewhere june.
Nvidia will probably come around july, atm its just a bad time to upgrade with price cuts and new hardware coming soon.

 

[fiftyone]

Unreal Tournament 3, all pumped up runs like a dream on my recently purchased 8800gt.
A rock steady 60fps.

E6400 2go ram, 22" lcd + the 8800gt.

Bring on the Toys boys .

 

[Alec]

I went for Gigabyte 3870 512 MB DDR3. Changed the included cooler to passive AC Silencer S1
For Red Orchestra this card is already overkill. Only on Leningrad did I see fps drop below max possible...

 

[Private Who?]

thanks Alec!

That's exactly the kind of info I was looking for.

Now if the 4670 or 4850 cards are priced way high (which I doubt), I can rest easy knowing a 3870 will fit the bill. And there's the anticipated price drop for the 3000 cards to wait for. Twin 3870's in CrossFire for 140 bucks? Maybe....we'll see.

 

[GonzoX]

Had an X1300, it was rather slow but all I needed for older engine games like RO.

Then got a 1600. It was twice as fast as the X1300.

Now I also have a HD 3850 512 meg. Nice card. I can almost play Cryisis with all the stuff all the way up but it gets slow with lots of trees. At medium setting I can play Crysis just fine.

This card is overkill for my older games like RO, IL2, Homeworld 2 and VC2.

For Cryisis, COD4, HL2 and Stalker it is just the ticket and does not cost and is less than $200.

If I ever upgarde again, it will have to be my motherboard and CPU but Im set for a while with the worlds fastest single core CPU LOL.

All the multi core stuff out there is because Intel and AMD hit a roadblock regarding overheating.

 

[Zetsumei]

all those cards seem to be coming out quite a bit later. As in late june/july. Still not too late but if your really need a card now you could just buy it.