itreviews.com Updated: 2011-09-25 16:49:54
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At last there is a competitor for Nvidias mighty GeForce 8800GT, and a well priced one at that. But the performance of the factory-overclocked EAH3870, however close to the 8800GT, still cant knock the king of the mid-range cards off its perch. Asus...
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hardinfo.com Updated: 2011-09-25 16:49:54
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Finally we are seeing some action in the 1500DKK(appr. 300$) area of the graphics market. After seeing numerous High-end launches with cards costing more than a couple of thousands DKK and a mid-range segment that was clearly not thinking bang for the...
From the look of the specifications, we were not surprised to see that the Radeon HD38xx series was not going to take the performance crown from nVIDIA. Not surprisingly the 8800GT is scoring higher than the HD3870 in every single game - and most of th...
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Despite having a boring product name, the ASUS EAH3870 TOP/G/HTDI/512M graphics card will bring nothing but excitement to anyone who buys it. Its based on ATIs new Radeon HD 3870 GPU (graphics processing unit), which runs cooler and faster than the R...
Excellent DirectX 9 gaming performance, HDCP-capable HMDI output, requires only one PCI Express power cable...
DirectX 10-based games are sluggish at high resolutions The Final Word This card will handle any DirectX 9-based game on the market, but its still not as fast as cards based on NVIDIAs high-end 8800 GPU in DirectX 10-based games. However, DX 10-based...
This card will handle any DirectX 9-based game on the market, but its still not as fast as cards based on NVIDIAs high-end 8800 GPU in DirectX 10-based games. However, DX 10-based games are still playable with this card at resolutions lower than 1920...
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After going through several of the latest and hottest NVIDIA G92 based graphics card in the past few months, it does seem like weve been ignoring the other important player in the market -- AMD/ATI graphics cards. While they dont necessarily hold the...
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The ASUS EAH3870 TOP Overclocked Radeon HD3870 graphics card offers solid performance in todays demanding games without draining you of the extreme amount of money that the high end cards will set you back. And while the card may be overkill for the t...
Solid performance, Overclocked speeds out of the box, Decent bundle of accessories that includes a copy of "Company of Heroes - Opposing Fronts", Two slot cooling solution gets the heat out of your case, Supports 4-way CrossFire configurations...
Fan is loud at full speed, and seems to get there more often than other cards tested, GPU would not overclock beyond the factory settings, Priced considerably higher than other 512MB HD3870 cards...
The 512MB ASUS EAH3870 TOP Overclocked Radeon HD3870 performed as expected, which is a very good thing. As the big brother to the HD3850 TOP card reviewed here I expected it to perform about 10-20% better, and in general that is about what it did. It o...
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i4u.com Updated: 2011-09-25 16:49:54
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Today we are going to take a look at a new video card from ASUS called the EAH3870 Top. This is the top of the line card when it comes to ASUS’ line of single GPU products. Like the EAH3850 Top we checked out a few months back, the EAH3870 Top is ov...
Good bundle, Good Performance...
Down on performance compared to some NVIDIA parts...
In the end the ASUS EAH3870 Top is a good card for the ATI fans out there that performs well at a price that is reasonable by top-end graphics card standards. ASUS includes a nice bundle with its cards whereas some other vendors offer nothing extra for...
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ASUSTeK Computer Inc. is one of the largest and most successful computer hardware manufacturers in the world. A Taiwan-based company, it manufactures a wide variety of computer hardware, including motherboards, video cards, optical drives, notebooks, n...
The ASUS EAH3870 TOP is a solid video card that is priced higher than we think it should be while offering no real world gaming benefits for the extra cash. If ASUS can bring its pricing closer to parity with similar offerings from other vendors, we th...
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xbitlabs.com Updated: 2011-09-25 16:49:54
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Factory overclocking of graphics cards is a widespread practice. It is one of the ways for the maker to add originality to its product and set it apart from the competitors’ offers especially when it comes to graphics cards that have the reference P...
Pretty high performance in contemporary games, On average 6%10% faster than ATI Radeon HD 3850, DirectX 10.1 support, Excellent anisotropic filtering quality, Good start for the future: DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1 support, Fullyfledged hardware supp...
Insufficient driver optimization, Texturing and raster processors could be too few, High price.
Our tests of the EAH3870 TOP and EAH3850 TOP graphics cards from ASUS have proved that factory overclocking of ATI Radeon HD 3800 produces but a very small effect and brings almost no benefits for real gaming applications. We don’t mean there is no...
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elitebastards.com Updated: 2011-09-25 16:49:54
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Compared to other factory overclocked Radeon HD 3870 boards, including Sapphires Radeon HD 3870 Atomic, ASUS offering in the EAH3870 TOP frequently manages to put its nose in front of other similar parts, thanks mainly due that relatively large core...
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ATIs new top-of-the-line HD 3870 chipset is actually aimed at capturing the mainstream market, offering very good performance at a reasonable price. The Asus EAH3870 TOP soups up the HD 3870 by overclocking the GPU and memory, and bundlin...
Inexpensive for its performance class; excellent image quality; HDMI output; supports PCI Express 2.0 and DirectX 10.1...
Somewhat noisy during intense activity; 3D performance drops at highest resolutions; activating CrossFire disables secondary monitors...
Like the HD 3850, this HD 3870-based card offers unmatched performance in its price range—but its price is close to that of the faster GeForce 8800 GT...
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Santa must have had some renovations done to his workshop, in order to accommodate all of the new video cards that came out over the last two months. It all started around Halloween, which had a little extra bang to it this year, with the release of NV...
If the 8800 GT did not exist, then the HD 3870 would be rocking every PC gamers universe. For around $250, you can get the power previously reserved for video cards in the over-$400 range, not that long ago. For $250 USD, the HD 3870 delivers the per...
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Behardware.com Updated: 2011-09-25 16:49:55
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November 28, 2007 The month of November is a very important period for AMD, which for the first time, is launching a complete platform, the Spider, that will include new CPUs (the Phenom), chipsets (the AMD 7 series), and graphic cards (the Radeon HD...
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This week AMD came to unveil its latest generation of ATI graphics hardware, an awaited release that without a doubt created a lot of expectations and speculation especially because of two factors: 1) The dominant player, Nvidia had just killed its who...
First let’s quickly sum up the performance of the Radeon HD 3870 powered ASUS EAH3870 and see how it went against the GeForce 8800 GT competition. In Crysis at the best playable resolution the Radeon HD 3870 was 20% slower. In Far Cry with AA/AF disab...
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Bit-Tech.net Updated: 2014-12-07 02:22:04
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Two to three weeks 851MHz 2.28GHz Three years (parts and labour)Factory overclocked graphics cards are something that we take for granted these days on the Nvidia side of the fence, such that we are usually inundated with a selection of cards from dif...
This is the closest that an AMD/ATI-based graphics card has got to competing with Nvidia at the same price point for some time now, but there are still cases where even this factory overclocked Radeon HD 3870 from Asus disappoints me a bit. It pains me...
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