Edit #3: 28,505 in 3DMark03 at default settings.
Edit #2: Found a hot patch for 3DMark and ran 3DMark06. 7,751 at default settings with this card on PCIe 4X Asrock board, 2 GB of DDR2 at 667MHz 5-5-5-15 and an E6300 at stock. (Is that good?
). Also, 3DMark06 reports the correct amount of ram. Everything else does not.
Edit: I read around the web and found a setting on my board that took care of the artifacts so the card is now up and running, but I can't run 3DMark06 or 3DMark03. They both just sit there and stop responding (at the startup banner, doesn't make it to the test).
Still reports 1GB of ram from all utilities. Anyone know how to solve that, lol!
Well, I installed this card in an older Asrock board (775Dual-VSTA which only has a PCIe 4X slot) board to test it today (while waiting for new 45nm processors to arrive) and it didn't go well. The drivers (and every other hardware program for that matter) does indeed show 1024MB of ram. Must be some sort of glitch or mistake.
Running almost any game resulted in large artifacts. After uninstalling and reinstalling the card and 3 sets of drivers (using driver sweeper in between installs), still nothing. After reading around, apparantly, this board has issues with HD3870/3850 cards. There is a BIOS update for the newer 4 core model for these cards but none on this board yet. I'll try to tear the system down tomorrow to borrow the E6300 chip and do a fresh install in the new Abit IP35-E board and see what happens.
FWIW, the card idled in the 45C range and went as high as 65C while running (cool in my house today). It was not noticable when at idle, but it ramped up both the fan and my power supply fan when running under load.