Retail Radeon HD 3870 X2 review and pics!

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 11:35:04 Wed, January 23, 2008

TweakTown has a review up for the MSI HD 3870 X2. They lavish praise on the card and give it their Editor's Choice Must Have shiny gold award:

"All in all, the card is pretty darn good. How would we make it better? Well as far as the card goes there’s not a lot more to do. Sure you could put GDDR4 on it and increase the clocks more but ultimately what we need is just better support for Crossfire in games. This isn’t a card issue but a software problem which we hope AMD are working on."

I find it strange that they did not include games like Bioshock and Crysis in their review.

Over at VR-Zone, they have some pretty pictures of Asus' HD 3870 X2 cards. They feature special dual fan cooling solutions and they have Company of Heroes included in the box. The reference 3870 X2s have 2 DVI ports, but one of these special Asus cards have 4 DVI ports. That is pretty cool I guess. I wonder why one of them is yellow?

UPDATE: Only one of the Asus HD 3870 X2's has 4 DVI ports. It is the EAH3870X2/G/3DHTI/1G model.

9 Comments

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 7:18:54 PM

anonymous
guest

I guess the yellow port is the one you use if you're not running multiple monitors

Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:36:45 AM

wyz135
Senior Member

look at the beautiful cards, how I wish I own one of them

Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:34:56 PM

anonymous
guest

Better than Ultra? Not for long i think, 9800 is comming soon and i am curious what performance will show up and what the price will be o.O

Do anyone has more information about IBM and AMD? I hear that they gonna buy AMD?

Friday, January 25, 2008 10:15:16 AM

anonymous
guest

its a rumor they are not quite sure

Friday, January 25, 2008 2:03:16 PM

anonymousD
n00b

yellow might be primary

Saturday, January 26, 2008 6:53:03 AM

"ATi"diot
guest

wow!! Finally ATi kicked 8800Ultra hard in it's ass

Saturday, January 26, 2008 1:45:07 PM

anonymousD
n00b

ibm buying amd? hmmm...quite difficult, even tough theyre having some short term difficulties.

9800 will be like the previous jump they say, huge increase in power, lets see how many nukular sized cooling units u need for it tough :p

Monday, January 28, 2008 5:28:47 AM

wyz135
guest

@anonymous Oh no.... IBM buying AMD, is it true?? Please god no.... I don't want the ATi radeon series to be discontiunued T.T

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:07:10 PM

anonymous
guest

"9800 will be like the previous jump they say, huge increase in power, lets see how many nukular sized cooling units u need for it tough :p"

What makes this card good is that it's 450$ with premature drivers and still manages to compete with a 8800GTX/Ultra.

Also these WILL be xfireable in coming months.

Another that should be noted is if the 9800Gx2 comes out, it will probably be THE most powerful card on the market but I don't have that much money to dish out and will probably end up buying this card as I am sure it will be the second best thing out there.

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