How is the MSI HD3850??

[Genesis15]

I want he HD 3850 OC from MSI, for 169.99$ on zipzoomfly.. I was going to buy a cheap gigabyte motherboard with it.

 

[daveybrat]

That's the card i would buy if i didn't already have a decent card. MSI's customer support is better than most of the others, and it's even overclocked mildly for a great price. At $169, you cannot go wrong!

 

[Ozoneman]

Originally posted by: Genesis15
I want he HD 3850 OC from MSI, for 169.99$ on zipzoomfly.. I was going to buy a cheap gigabyte motherboard with it.

Can you go $40 or $50 more? If you can, I would suggest the 256 8800GT. You will get much better performance.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: Ozoneman

Originally posted by: Genesis15
I want he HD 3850 OC from MSI, for 169.99$ on zipzoomfly.. I was going to buy a cheap gigabyte motherboard with it.

Can you go $40 or $50 more? If you can, I would suggest the 256 8800GT. You will get much better performance.

well seeing as that is actually not available at any store and probably really wont be much better (it has a slower ram clock than the 512mb one) it probably isnt worth bothering.


the MSI card is a reference design just like the HIS, ATI sapphire etc. i'm assuming its going to be just as reliable. (though it does have a higher stock clock)

 

[taltamir]

it is available.. newegg is selling it now for 209$ +6 shipping, which is ridiculously high compared to MSRP.

According to the one review so far it is as fast as the 512MB version (as in, less then 1% difference) except when you enable AA on high resolutions... then it falls between the 512MB GT and the 3870... It also always beats the 3870 and 3850, sometimes by a huge margin.http://en.expreview.com/?p=64

 

[hans007]

yeah i noticed there is one at newegg now.

the review is for one with 1800mhz memory. the one at newegg has 1400mhz memory. so i'd assume it would not be much faster than a $159-169 3850 at that point.