[Anthony817]

Okay folks, here I have The notorious Visiontek Radeon HD 3870 X2 Video Card - 1GB GDDR3, PCI Express, CrossFireX Ready, (Dual Link) Dual DVI, HTDV, HDMI Support, Video Card!

That was a grand name was it not? I must let you all see this wonderfull GFX card and help me judge the correct company to make said purchase from. I have the visiontek brand here, but was not positive if I should buy this brand or not...

What would be better and make more sence? His, Saphire , Dimond, Gecube, etcetera.

Check out this review vid, it plays UT3 at 141 FPS! CoD 4 @ 118 FPS! So this is truly a great card. Thanks guys for helping me make the right dicission here.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/b...bctid1413471452

p.s. Also I have heared from 2 different places that the length of this card varies from 10 incher to 13 inches? I only heared about the 10 inch length befor the man stated 13 in this vid.

[Cassio]

I think it is 10-11" and 13" was wrong

I would choose the brand by price. They all have the standard design and largely the same package content.

The cheapest 3870x2 I found is from Sapphire and costs 340€ (includes shipping)
How are the prices in US?

[Anthony817]

Exactly $450 in the states. Will i be able to run it with a 400 w power supply? It is recommended to have 450 w, but I think 50 w less should not be a problem at all.....What is your take on that?

I have measured it and found the space to be sufficent enough for placement in my machine.

[phatty2x4]

400w is not going to be enough. That card draws almost 300w by itself. I have a 620w and it works great. It does require two power cables, so a PSU with two PCI-E power plugs would be required.
I got the Visiontek one because of the lifetime warranty and it worked great for 3 days, but died on me, so I sent it back for another one. Don't let that discourage you though, there's bad eggs in every basket and my luck of the draw just wasn't all that great.
Other than that, it runs everything insanely well.

[Anthony817]

Really? The support technition on the HP site said it would be ok.

Give me some good prices of power supplys that are affordable and powerfull. Thanks folks for all the help

I had just found this 600 w Power supply for $75 + shipping! Yea or neigh?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817171013

[OneColinOne]

Computer part prices in the UK suck so bad compared to Europe and America

[phatty2x4]

I'd go with a better brand than that one. One thing to think about when buying power supplies= you get what you pay for. My Corsair 620hx was $160, but it's a damn good one and won't fail on me or fry any of my parts.

[Anthony817]

Okay, I have an Asus P5LP-LE, mother board. I was wondering if you have a Idee if I can use 600 w on it at all.....

I know that most PC parts are interchangeable, but will any olde PSU fit in my HP media center case? As you can tell the extent of my hardware knowledge consists of Video card and Ram upgrades.

Danke fur die hilfe!

[phatty2x4]

Anthony817, on Feb 22 2008, 10:44 AM, said:

Okay, I have an Asus P5LP-LE, mother board. I was wondering if you have a Idee if I can use 600 w on it at all.....

I know that most PC parts are interchangeable, but will any olde PSU fit in my HP media center case? As you can tell the extent of my hardware knowledge consists of Video card and Ram upgrades.

Danke fur die hilfe!

As long as it's an ATX case you should be fine. And with power supplies, you can't have "too much" but you can have "too little". In which case, it isn't pretty.

[Anthony817]

Good deal, I shall get a good one then.

[Anthony817]

Thanks fellas for all the help, I really appreciate it. I should recieve my 600 W PSU and my OEM ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 Fryday afternoon (today for some of you)

I couldnt find the OEM version anywhere but at Mwave.com, I ended up spending $479.00 for a card that said ATI on it and showed Ruby on the card, not a visiontech or His.....I actualy prefer ruby on my cards!

[Anthony817]

Ok fellas, just wonder if you that have the 3870 x2 have seen any proformance decreases with the cat drivers 8.3? I get horrible fps on crysis on Dx10 mode and general fps drops.

[phatty2x4]

I'm still using XP, so I'm not sure.

[Anthony817]

Well It has the same problem for me on a few other games.
Ok phatty, here is my specs:

Mobo: Asus P5LP-LE
Psu:600 w Cooler Master Extreme power Duo

Manufacturer: HP Pavilion 061

Processor: Intel® Pentium® Dual CPU 3.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz

Memory: 3GB RAM PNY

Hard Drive: 250 GB Total

Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

Monitor: ACER 20 Inch.Widescreen LCD Monitor

Sound Card:Realtek High Definition Audio

Keyboard: Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard

Mouse: HP Laser

Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium

Seems to me that I got a pretty hot system, so I should be getting no lag in games at all on max settings. Hell even sometimes in Turning point fall of liberty it stutters and thats the UT3 engine. It should run it better than anything on the market now!

Waiting for the 8.4 catalyst suit to come out in a few days I hope. That is what I am hopping will fix everything for me.

[apophis3d]

Anthony817, on Feb 20 2008, 09:11 AM, said:

Okay folks, here I have The notorious Visiontek Radeon HD 3870 X2 Video Card - 1GB GDDR3, PCI Express, CrossFireX Ready, (Dual Link) Dual DVI, HTDV, HDMI Support, Video Card!

That was a grand name was it not? I must let you all see this wonderfull GFX card and help me judge the correct company to make said purchase from. I have the visiontek brand here, but was not positive if I should buy this brand or not...

What would be better and make more sence? His, Saphire , Dimond, Gecube, etcetera.

Check out this review vid, it plays UT3 at 141 FPS! CoD 4 @ 118 FPS! So this is truly a great card. Thanks guys for helping me make the right dicission here.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/b...bctid1413471452

p.s. Also I have heared from 2 different places that the length of this card varies from 10 incher to 13 inches? I only heared about the 10 inch length befor the man stated 13 in this vid.

To get 141FPS in UT3 did you uncap the FPS limiter???

[Anthony817]

Yes I did but it was to no avail.......I see now that its my cpu thats holding me back. Even though I have a dual core cpu....its only 3 ghz and that means its old school.

I am going to save up some money and get a really nice mobo and quad core cpu that will take advantage of this card since its dx10.1 and its got the best gfx now with 2 gpu's on one card it will hold me over for some time now.....only thing is the mobo and cpu have to wait for a bit.