Ok. I'm dating myself but does anyone remember Mele? It was the forerunner of D&D and came out back in the late 70's. For a few bucks you got a card that had hexagons and was about 5X8 and markers, this was the board or battlefield. To create players you rolled the dice three times and the three...
For those interested, ZipZoomFly has the HIS H385F512ANP Radeon HD 3850 512MB GDDR3 AGP 2/4/8x Video Card Retail on sale for $110 after MIR.
I finished Crysis last night. The last half of the game I ran in developer mode which shows frame rates. Most of the time mine was running between 30-40...
I tried running Crysis on High at 1280x1024 and there were some stutters, so I dropped it back to 1024x768 on High. I haven't had a big firefight yet, but in normal game play everything is running smoothly. All other games I have tried ran fine on the highest settings.
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I have a dual core Opteron running at 1.8 and just upgraded my X800XT PE to the 3850 because I don't have the money to upgrade the entire system. Crysis can run with everything on medium at 1280x1024. I tried on high, but there were a few stutters so I dropped it back again. Tom's has a good...
Tom's has posted the first part of an article about the AGP version of the 3850:Radeon 3850 AGP Plus Single-Core CPU . The next part will be testing a dual core cpu. It is interesting that the AGP bus isn't as big of a bottleneck as most would believe. I'm really waiting to see how the dual core...
Ok. I upgraded my ram to 2gb and that took care of the problems in HL2E2. It plays well without any problems and everything turned all the way up. I also started playing MOH Airborne with everything on high and I haven't had any problems (except dying.) I have been holding off loading Crysis...
I've been thinkng that, but not sure about spending another $75. I guess I could sell my 1 gb. When playing HL2 E2, it keeps poping up in the upper right corner that the OS Page file is out of memory.
I started to play last night, then was going to load Crysis when a storm knocked out my...
That is the way I tried, but it stated it didn't find any compatible hardware. I'll try again if I have any problems.
HL2 E2 with all the eye candy turned on, looks much better than HL2 or HL2 E1. I'm not sure if that is my new card or the game. It seemed to play smooth enough for the first...
I didn't try the Omega drivers because when I went there, they were dated as January. I figured the 8.4's were newer. I jsut checked what I am running (installed from CD) and they are listed as the 8.4's with a date of January 9, 2008. I might try the Omega's in the next few days. I have used...
I received the 3850 on Friday and installed it that night. I tried to install the cat 8.4 driver only, and the full package I downloaded from AMD, but they wouldn't install with this card either the normal way or using device manager. I then tried the drivers on the included CD and they...
Thanks for the advice. I went with the PowerColor because it has a better stock fan. NewEgg shipped the same day and it should be here tomorrow.
I would also like to get an aftermarket fan that vents the hot air out of the case. I have used those on the last two cards I purchased and they...
Ok. I am considering the 3850's on Newegg and would like a recomendation of which manufacturer.
Should I get the PowerColor AG3850 for $142 after MIR and shipping, or should I get the Sapphire 3850 for $147 after MIR and shipping?
I haven't dealt with either company, and both seem to be...
Ok. I am rethinking my upgrade path and time table. Will this card be good enough with my Opteron dual core at 2.2 to play the lastes games decently (excluding Crysis - that would be lower settings)? I am thinking that maybe I would go ahead and buy a new MB, 6600 quad, memory, and maybe a...
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