(01/08) ATI RADEON HD 3650, 3470 AND 3450 DETAILS AT ULTIMATE HARDWARE - "The ATI video card chart has now been updated to include the latest information about the HD 3650, HD 3470 and HD 3450. We include information on the chip, core clock speed, memory clock speed, memory interface, memory transfer rate, pixels per clock and directx version."
(01/08) AMD CPU EFFICIENCY COMPARED AT THG - "We did not want to run the AMD processors at too low a processor speed, to avoid jeopardizing the relevance of our results due to insufficient clock speed. Our best bet hence was 2.3 GHz, as there is the Phenom 9600, the Athlon X2 BE-2400 (which equals the Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 65 nm Brisbane, but is rated at 45 W instead of 65 W TDP). Since there was no 2.3 GHz processor in AMD's 90 nm generation, we added a 2.4 GHz Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (Windsor F2 core) and, not to forget, the Sempron 3600+. Unfortunately, this last model only runs at 2.0 GHz, but we did not have a faster model at the time we performed our testing. Consider the slower Sempron to be there for your reference only."
(01/08) ATI RADEON HD 3870 X2 REVIEW AT TECH REPORT - "AMD's pitch for the 3870 X2 sounds pretty good. The X2 should possess many of the Radeon HD 3870's virtues—including DirectX 10.1 support and HD video decode acceleration—while packing a heckuva punch. In fact, AMD claims the X2 offers higher performance, superior acoustics, and lower power draw than two Radeon HD 3870 cards in a CrossFire pairing. That should be good enough, they say, for gaming in better-than-HD resolutions."
(01/08) ATI RADEON HD 3870 X2 REVIEW AT GURU3D - "Yep, two graphics processors on one board, bridged, making it a "single" card, a card that because it's bridged will work on any mainboard with a fast enough PCIe slot .. and yes that's including NVIDIA's nForce series. Twice the performance of RV670 (Radeon HD 3870), twice the memory (2x512MB) boasting the HD 3870 X2 product in the high-end segment, aimed at you guys at an okay price .. On the next pages we'll look into the GPU, the X2, the technology, noise levels, power consumption, performance .. well everything you need to know to be honest. Without further ado, let me introduce you the Radeon HD 3870 X2 as delivered to our doorsteps by board-partner HIS technology, meaning we'll have a full retail product review for you already."
(01/08) ATI RADEON HD 3870 X2 REVIEW AT TECHPOWERUP - "Today AMD announced the Radeon HD 3870 X2. This graphics card is based on the R680 graphics processing unit which consists of two RV670 GPU cores. Both cores are interconnected using a PCI-Express bridge chip and run in a CrossFire setup which is completely transparent to the end user. There is no CrossFire option to enable in CCC, nor is there one to disable it."
(01/08) ATI RADEON HD 3870 X2 REVIEW AT BJORN3D - "Today AMD is announcing (and releasing) a card that for the first time in a couple of years has the chance to compete with the best NVIDIA has, at least until NVIDIA releases their new cards in a month or so. The HD3870X2 is not your average video card. Instead of creating a single GPU with the power to compete with the 8800Ultra and beyond, AMD has chosen to go the multi-chip route instead. The HD3870X2, just as the name implies, simply is a card that has two HD3870 GPU's. It is not the first video card in history with two GPU's. The ATi Radeon Rage Fury MAX is one example and we all remember NVIDIA's first attempt, the GeForce 7950 GX2. Recently AMD tested a similar design with the HD2600 Gemini cards which were a very rare sight in the wild. NVIDIA is also working on a multi-GPU card that should be out pretty soon."
(01/08) ATI RADEON HD 3870 X2 REVIEW AT ANANDTECH - "These dual GPU designs are even more important today because of the SLI/CrossFire limitations that exist on various chipsets. With few exceptions, you can't run SLI on anything other than a NVIDIA chipset; and unless you're running an AMD or Intel chipset, you can't run CrossFire. These self-contained SLI/CrossFire graphics cards will work on anything however. AMD is the first out of the gates with the Radeon HD 3870 X2, based on what AMD is calling its R680 GPU. Despite the codename, the product name tells the entire story: the Radeon HD 3870 X2 is made up of two 3870s on a single card. "
(01/08) A LOOK AT VIA'S NEXT-GEN ISAIAH X86 CPU ARCHITECTURE AT TECH REPORT - "A brand-new x86 processor microarchitecture doesn't come along every day, but today, we have just that. We visited the offices of VIA Technologies' processor subsidiary, Centaur Technology, Inc., yesterday to learn about its new x86-compatible processor architecture. Remarkably, Centaur President Glenn Henry and his team of less than 100 people have created a thoroughly modern x86 processor microarchitecture from scratch over the course of the last four years. The resulting design, which bore the code-named CN during its development and is also known as the VIA Isaiah microarchitecture, is a superscalar 64-bit processor with speculative, out-of-order execution."
(01/08) MSI RADEON HD 3870 X2 OC REVIEW AT TWEAKTOWN - "So it’s easy; we have the HD 3870 X2 in our hands, it’s tested and that’s probably all that really matters. We’re going to have a quick look at the package that MSI have put together, a look over the specifications and then the benchmarks."
(01/08) ATI RADEON HD 3450 AND RADEON HD 3650 REVIEW AT LEGIT REVIEWS - "It's hard to believe that two months have passed since the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 3870 and the Radeon HD 3850 video cards, but it has been that long. ATI has been busy the past couple months getting the Radeon HD 3400 and 3600 series out the door and today is the day! ATI has moved on to the 55nm process which is an improvement over the 65nm manufacturing process and both the Radeon HD 3650 and 3450 are built on the new process. You might have heard rumors about these video cards under the code names RV620 and RV635, but now that they are official they have been given real product names. The ATI Radeon HD 3650 and Radeon 3450/3470 cards all range between $49 and $99 so they are competitively priced entry-level DirectX 10.1 compliant GPUs that offer full UVD support with all the latest technology that ATI uses."
(01/08) AMD ATI RADEON HD 3450, 3470 AND 3650 REVIEW AT BIT TECH - "AMD has today announced the introduction of three new Radeon HD 3000-series graphics products that will replace the relatively lacklustre Radeon HD 2600 and Radeon HD 2400 series graphics cards. Two of the new cards make up the Radeon HD 3400-series, the HD 3450 and HD 3470, while the remaining card is called the Radeon HD 3650."
(01/08) AMD ATI RADEON HD 3450, 3470 AND 3650 REVIEW AT HEXUS - "The Radeon HD 3850/3870 GPUs patched up the sub-£150 market by introducing a number of new features which were allied decent, if not stellar, 3D performance. ATI is of the opinion that its entire line-up should now reflect the improvements brought by HD 3850/3870. To that end, it's releasing three distinct low-to-mid-range SKUs to replace the Radeon HD 2000-series. Please welcome the Radeon 3450, Radeon 3470, and Radeon 3650. Read on to see just how they beat out the current range. "
(01/08) ATI RADEON HD REFRESH: THE 3650 AND 3450 ARRIVE AT HOT HARDWARE - "They have since taken the very same design principles that brought forth the RV670 and used them for a couple of new mainstream and entry-level GPUs. Today AMD is officially unveiling the Radeon HD 3650 and the Radeon HD 3450 / 3470, which are based on the 55nm RV635 and RV620 GPUs, respectively. Like the RV670 that came before them, the RV635 and RV620 are competitively priced DirectX 10.1 compliant GPUs that offer full UVD support."
(01/08) SUB $100 GRAPHICS: AMD RADEON HD 3600 AND 3400 AT ANANDTECH - "For now, we don't have low end hardware so we can't do any performance comparisons right now. AMD has promised a very hard launch, so the delay between now and when we will see a performance review should be relatively short. In the meantime we'll take a look at the hardware specs and new technologies that are part of the 3600 and 3400 series parts. "
(01/08) DIAMOND RADEON HD 3850 RUBY EDITION REVIEW AT LEGIT REVIEWS - "Diamond Multimedia is a new name here at Legit Reviews, but they have been around for a long time. Diamond has been trying to get the attention of gamers for some time now, but gamers are a tough group to get the attention of. Diamond released ATI Radeon HD 3870 and Radeon HD 3850 graphics cards back in November when they originally came out, but they were based off the ATI reference design and were the same as everyone else's. Diamond went back to the drawing board and came up with an Radeon HD 3850 that would be unique to them and be directed at overclockers and enthusiasts."
(01/08) 8800 GT SLI VS HD 3870 CROSSFIRE REVIEW AT LEGION HARDWARE - "Today we are finally going to settle the score between the GeForce 8800 GT and the Radeon HD 3870. The battle between these two affordable high-end graphics cards began roughly 2 months ago now when AMD released the Radeon HD 3870, which can now be had at the bargain basement price of $250 US. Priced slightly higher is the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT, which currently costs around $270 US, yet offers more performance in a single card configuration."
(01/08) DIAMOND HD 3850 RUBY EDITION 512MB REVIEW AT TECHPOWERUP - "AMD's latest generation of graphics cards is the HD 3000 Series, namely the HD 3850 and the HD 3870. Diamond has recently released a special version of the HD 3850 called the Ruby Edition. It features an improved dual-slot cooling solution and comes with more and faster memory."
(01/08) MSI GEFORCE 8800 GT 512MB REVIEW AT XSR - "The 8 series of nVIDIA cards have been around for over a year and have almost completely dominated the market in terms of high end support. Now with the 9 series just around the corner, partners are finishing up with their last set of performance cards before focusing on the next generation. One of these last cards is the 8800GT; near performance of a GTX with a sub GTS price tag. MSI might be a bit late in the game to release an 8800GT model, but they've done it none the less and it's here with me today. Let's see if it lives up to the 8800GT's sterling reputation."
(01/08) ATI CATALYST v8.1 DRIVER AT ATI-AMD - "Catalyst 8.1 introduces MultiView™ support. This feature provides for hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering across multiple graphics adapters. MultiView™ will provide hardware accelerated 3D rendering in a system containing multiple graphics cards on an extended desktop arrangement. This feature will allow for the rendering performance and additional frame buffer resources to be evenly shared with the second and third graphics adapters. This allows for a 3D application to have the same performance running on a secondary or third display device as if it were running on the primary display device. This feature will be supported under Windows XP (32 and 64 bit versions), Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit versions), and the Linux operating system."
(01/08) ASUS EAH3870 ATOMIC REVIEW AT ELITE - "Compared to the grand packaging and intriguing cooling solution of the Atomic, the EAH3870 TOP takes a far more traditional line with regard to creating a factory overclocked board, sticking with ATI's own dual-slot reference cooler, and focusing on bumping up the card's core clock speed over anything too extravagant on the memory clock side of the equation. Will this particular mix of functionality be enough to draw users away from NVIDIA's hugely successful GeForce 8800 GT 512MB boards? We'll be seeing how the ASUS EAH3870 TOP compares to both reference Radeon HD 3870 and GeForce 8800 GT parts in this article, so let's get started without further ado."
(01/08) ASUS EAH3850 256MB REVIEW AT HOT HARDWARE - "To see how this retail version of a Radeon HD 3850 performs, we're going to pit it against a variety of cards, including a Radeon X1950 Pro, GeForce 8600 GT and a 256MB 8800 GT. It should be interesting to see where ASUS' EAH3850 falls in this pack in our benchmarks. Before we get to those, though, let's take a look at the specifications and features of the EAH3850."
(01/08) VISIONTEK RADEON HD 3850 BLACK BOX REVIEW AT AMDZONE - "This smaller process allows for higher clockspeeds although the normal clockspeed of the 3850 is 670MHz for the core Visiontek bumps this up to 700MHz for this overclocked Black edition, although this is still 75Mhz slower than 3870. The memory runs at 1.75GHz effective, about 900Mhz more than a standard 3850 and about 400Mhz less than a 3870. The number of stream processors though remain the same on all products at 320. We'll see how much a performance difference this makes later on. To achieve this higher clockspeed Visiontek's HD 3850 Black edition does away with the one slot cooler of a normal 3850 and uses a larger dual slot cooler similar to what is seen on a 3870 but with a larger fan, heatsink, and a few heatpipes throw on to boot."
(01/08) VISIONTEK RADEON HD 3870 REVIEW AT AMDZONE - "When the Radeon HD 2900 XT card was released mid-last year after numerous delays it unfortunately wasn't quite what the hardware community was looking for both under performing Nvidia's high-end GeForce 8 cards and yet drawing more power than them. ATI's start into DirectX 10 graphics was not a good one and this was not a good sign for AMD who not long ago dropped billions of dollars to pick up the graphics company. After nvidia refreshed their core with the 65nm G92 ATI did the same last November for the R600 which has addressed almost all of the problems of the old cards and brought hefty competition back into the market with the RV670. Today we have one of these cards to look at from Visiontek, the Radeon HD 3870 from Visiontek."
(01/08) GALAXY GEFORCE 8800 GT HDMI REVIEW AT GURU3D - "So what then if a company decides to pimp a graphics card ? As that's what Galaxy did. They, to date, made the best looking and innovative GeForce 8800 GT to date, period. Well not period, I mean I do have to at the very least tell you the difference over the reference model. How about a Blue PCB, custom cooler, black connector panel, HDMI output, two 6-pin power connector for optimal multi-phase power connectivity."
(01/08) XFX GEFORCE 8800 GT ALPHA DOG REVIEW AT NVNEWS - "The hot new graphics cards right now are based on the the affordable 8800GT chipset from nVidia. I recently received an XFX 8800GT Alpha Dog Edition graphics card for review. This card came in at standard 8800GT clocking with 256MB of DDR3 memory. We will take a look at this card, run it through tests with some of the latest games, and then compare it to another 8800GT that I reviewed here recently. How does it stack up? The smaller amount of memory appeared to have made a drastic difference in a few cases. Overall, though, this is an impressive card."
(01/08) SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 3870 ATOMIC REVIEW AT ELITE - "Okay, sorry about that. So, Sapphire's 'Atomic' parts, what are they all about? Well, for starters, and as the name perhaps suggests, the first Atomic board we're seeing is a factory overclocked one, based around ATI's 512MB Radeon HD 3870 part. But that's only half the story, for this initial Atomic card also features a rather unique cooler - Not only is it single slot, compared to the dual-slot cooler used by a reference Radeon HD 3870, but it also introduces a rather different form of cooling mechanism, known as Vapour Chamber Technology. Does it work, and what else does the first in what will doubtless be a long line of Atomic-branded parts from Sapphire?"
(01/08) SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 3850 REVIEW AT BOOT DAILY - "Since Sapphire is ATIs premier board partner and in fact helps make ATI-branded cards for ATI, it’s a show-in that it was one of the first out of the starting gates with an HD 3850. As you may know, the default clock rates for this offering are 670MHz on the GPU core and 1.65GHz (825 MHz DDR) for the RAM speed. This leaves some rather interesting overclocking potential as the GPU is really the same one that’s in the HD 3870; however, has been down clocked."
(01/08) CLUB3D RADEON HD 3850 REVIEW AT CDR INFO - "The two released products, the 3850 and 3870, are both based on a new GPU, the RV670. There have been several major changes in the architecture of the hardware compared with the previous R600 (2900XT series). What AMD is proud of, is that the RV670 is fabricated on a 55nm TSMC process. That should give an advantage in die size, cost and hopefully clock speeds and power consumption."
(01/08) HIS RADEON HD 3850 ICQ3 TURBO X REVIEW AT GURU3D - "NVIDIA fails to deliver good price/performance cards at that 150 EUR price segment and when ATI released Radeon 3850 & 3870 the dynamics changed. As we speak NVIDIA is still trying to prepare a card to match this series (8800 GS/9600 GT) but until released the Radeon 3850 & 3870 offer a stack load of performance, compatibility and features at a terrific price. See, performance wise a reference 149 USD Radeon HD 3850 will easily wipe the floor with any card from the entire GeForce 8500/8600 series. With new releases we also often see a couple of new tricks. Today's product will see light of it in the form of DirectX 10.1 support, the new UVD (video de/encoding) engine is now integrated opposed to the 2900 XT which didn't have it. Full PCI-Express 2.0 support, and a die-size based on 55nm to die for."
(01/08) PALIT GEFORCE 8800 GT REVIEW AT OCC - "The Palit GeForce 8800 GT is one of the newest Nvidia based graphics solutions available. This 8800 GT is unlike the others that I have seen. The heatsink on the Palit 8800 GT is not just a stock nVidia heatsink with the Palit logo on it. Palit ships its 8800GT with a unique heatsink and fan that almost reminds me of the Thermaltake ORB."
(01/08) ASUS M3A32-MVP DELUXE MOTHERBOARD REVIEW AT TECHSPOT - "As part of the Phenom launch, AMD also unveiled a new platform (used by the ASUS M3A32-MVP we are testing today) built around the AMD 790FX chipset and the semi-new socket AM2+. This new platform still uses DDR2 memory but adds HyperTransport 3.0 support and split power lanes (which benefits power savings). The socket AM2+ is backwards compatible with Athlon X2s and Semprons, so it can serve as a middle platform if you can't upgrade CPU and motherboard all at once."
(01/08) SAPPHIRE ATOMIC HD 3870 ATOMIC REVIEW AT - "Driver Heaven now have the first of their enhanced products, the Atomic HD 3870. With this card Sapphire have done all they can to improve on the reference design and in addition to this the overall package has also been enhanced. Let us take a look at what makes this particular 3870 so special."
(01/08) ASUS M3A32-MVP DELUXE MOTHERBOARD REVIEW AT LEGIT REVIEWS - "Asus has always been at the front of the line when it comes to releasing new products. Whether it is a new processor or a new motherboard chipset, Asus always seems to manage to have something ready at the time of launch of the new product. There will be no surprise then that the launch of the AM2+ socket and the AMD 770 chipset brings us another new Asus motherboard to look at. This board comes with a lot of the familiar Asus offerings that will make the Asus user comfortable, but Asus has also thrown in a few new additions that I think will make the enthusiast user very happy. "
