MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC REVIEW

"MSI Radeon HD 3850 OC featuring the HIS Radeon HD 3870. MSI Radeon HD 3850 OC has a 12% lower clock speed, 27% lower memory speed and same 320 pixel shaders compared to HIS Radeon HD 3870. Software used for testing was Enemy Territory Quake Wars and Unreal Tournament 3."

MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC

	SYSTEM INFORMATION
VIDEO CARD	MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC
	HIS RADEON HD 3870
PROCESSOR	AMD ATHLON64 X2 4800
MOTHERBOARD	ECS NFORCE4 A939
ATI DRIVER	CATALYST v8.10 WHQL
NVIDIA DRIVER	FORCEWARE v177.83 WHQL
MEMORY	2 x 1GB OCUK PC3200 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS XP

ENEMY TERRITORY QUAKE WARS

NORMAL QUALITY

	160
	161

HIGH QUALITY

	93
	107

EXTREME QUALITY

	61
	72

MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC HIS RADEON HD 3870

COMMENT - "MSI Radeon HD 3850 OC puts in a great performance staying within 8% of the HIS Radeon HD 3870 with Enemy Territory Quake Wars."

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 3

NORMAL QUALITY

	137
	139

HIGH QUALITY

	100
	114

EXTREME QUALITY

	67
	80

MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC HIS RADEON HD 3870

COMMENT - "MSI Radeon HD 3850 OC puts in a good performance but loses to the HIS Radeon HD 3870 by 9% with Unreal Tournament 3."

FINAL RESULT

COMMENT - "The MSI Radeon HD 3850 OC put in a brave fight against the His Radeon HD 3870 but as expected was beaten by 9%. This might sound like a bad result for the MSI Radeon HD 3850 OC but that wouldn't be true. The MSI Radeon HD 3850 OC is more of a mid-range video card which is available over 10% cheaper than the His Radeon HD 3870. The MSI Radeon HD 3850 OC delivered some great performances at normal quality settings with Enemy Territory Quake Wars and Unreal Tournament 3 which equalled the performance shown by the His Radeon HD 3870 which is impressive!"

MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC SCORES 8/10!

MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC INTRODUCTION

PAGE 2 - 3DMARK 2006, CALL OF DUTY 4 AND FEAR

PAGE 3 - ENEMY TERRITORY QUAKE WARS AND UNREAL TOURNAMENT 3

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