Sapphire brings an overclocked HD 3850 to AGP slots.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 04:11:26 Wed, January 09, 2008

Bit-tech was at CES 2008 and ran into this overclocked (700/1,700) AGP HD 3850 from Sapphire. It looks like this may be the first DirectX 10.1 video card for your AGP motherboard. Woooooo! Wooo! Woo.

UPDATE:

Last night commentor Rasec brought the PowerColor AGP HD 3850 to my attention. He said it was on their site. Then I thought to myself, "Then why did not the parser not grab it for me?". Well it turns out the card is not featured on PowerColor's US/English site (which is what our parser is pulling from) but it is featured on their Global and Australian sites. So without further ado, here it is.

26 Comments

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 6:30:56 PM

anonymousP
guest

I thought we weren't buying from Sapphire anymore due to the crappy customer service? Downgrading x1900XT to a x1950Pro anyone?

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:04:44 PM

anonymousD
guest

nice

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:41:52 PM

anonymous
guest

:S weren't the hd 2000 series also directx 10? (hd2600pro agp)
perhaps you meant high end directx 10 card?
maybe i'm wrong though

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:01:20 PM

Rasec
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No Sir. PowerColor already showed us a HD 3850 AGP version a week ago. Just visit PC's Web site. I'm looking forward for a review of this little baby.

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:01:33 PM

Sunny
guest

This will be the best card for AGP. That is unless they try to convert a 3870 aswell.

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:30:00 PM

anonymous
guest

LET AGP DIE ALREADY!

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:31:15 PM

Steve
The Progenitor

@anonymous I meant DirectX 10.1. I corrected myself.

@Rasec
Amazing find. That card is linked and on the main page of PowerColor's Global and Australian sites but not on the US English site. You can not navigate to the card on the US English site, but you can type the URL in and get this messed up page:
http://www.powercolor.com/eng/products_features.asp?ProductID=1730

I will update this post and I will add the card tomorrow.

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:49:22 PM

anonymous
guest

Any reviews on it yet?

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:52:00 PM

anonymousD
guest

well the thing with agp it seems that its gonna linger on for longer..much muc longer than the yever expected. hell asrock sold a lot of them dual agp/pci-e boards...some crazy dude might go for the agp version lol

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:55:20 PM

anonymousD
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hmm..the powercolor page shows a 512 meg variant ...

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/4012/powercolor3850512pagemm6.jpg

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:09:36 PM

anonymous27
guest

AGP Junkies Rejoice! =P

That is one beautiful Card! =D

Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:38:31 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

Woot... an AGP card , finally .
And prettymuch all the PCs that still have AGP slots will severely bottleneck this card , for sure .

Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:14:31 PM

Mach5Motorsport
guest

IT LIVES!!!!!!!!!

Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:43:54 PM

nick
guest

looks like it could do with a bigger cooler though, arctic silencer FTW !!

Saturday, January 12, 2008 3:34:41 PM

Striderzorness
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AGP? WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!!!!!! NO! I THOUGHT I KILLED AGP 3 YEARS AGO!

Sunday, January 13, 2008 2:51:51 PM

spydag
guest

if they really want to keep alive agp slot they should keep the same price with the pci express!!?!

Monday, January 14, 2008 3:57:59 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

Making PCIe to AGP ports costs extra .

Monday, January 14, 2008 5:02:36 PM

anonymousD
guest

hard to tell them that when they know its cheaper to pay 30$-50$ more than a full system swap(wich u should do in order not to suffer :D )

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:21:51 PM

spydag
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selling your old used parts like motherboard,cpu and vga,and with the extra cost of 30$-50$ you can bye the intel 4500 cpu and the ASROCK 4COREDUAL-SATA2,sell your old ddr memory and bye ddrII,with the cost but more memory(ddr 512mb costs more than 1gb ddrII).spend your money to bye the pci version.
using ASROCK 4COREDUAL-SATA2 isn't the edge of motherboards but you upgrade gradually using your old memory and vga till you buy the new ones, having better life expectancy of your system

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:42:44 PM

anonymousD
n00b

trouble is the 4x pci-e when ull use it :p

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:53:09 PM

anonymousP
guest

@spydag The Asrcok 4coredual-sata2 can't run the PCI-E x16 2.0 cards. Trust me, I tried. It'll only run the AGP version.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 6:46:27 PM

Ghenghis Tom
guest

anonymousP, Spydag,

I am typing this message with a computer that has a ASRock 4CoreDual-Sata2 Motherboard. My videocard is an HD 3850 (512 Meg) in the PCI-E Slot.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Model=4CoreDual-SATA2&s=775

Make sure you get the BIOS update and you are good to go.

Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:53:08 AM

spydag
guest

@anonymousD there is a gap between 4x pci-e and 16x about 10%.take a look here:http://www.ocworkbench.com/2006/asrock/4CoreDual-VSTA/b8.htm is a similar board.don't forget that our priority is the cost.
@anonymousP i haven't tried but at asrock's site there is a bios for that http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Model=4CoreDual-SATA2%20R2.0&s=
i know there is a problem with 8800gt cards but if you flash them in a pci-16x motherboard with the first gen bios they can work

Thursday, January 17, 2008 5:04:43 PM

anonymousP
guest

@Genghis Tom, spydag

Ah. I tried the 8800 GT when back at the 1st of November. It's possible they didn't have the bios update released then.

Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:47:27 PM

anonymous
guest

And they are for sale where? I checked all of
Sapphires vendors and none of them list it.

Friday, January 25, 2008 10:05:30 AM

Steve
The Progenitor

@anonymous I can't find them for sale yet. I will post a news story when the become available.

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