Many Radeon 3850 512MB expected in 2 weeks

[JPB]

Big volumes

Many add in board partners have shipped its Radeon 3850 512MB cards but they will get huge volumes of these cards in some two weeks time. Currently everyone has ultra cheap Radeon 3850 256MB cards in stock, but for many people more memory means a significantly faster card, which is often not the case.

The price difference between 256MB and 512MB is so marginal that we simply couldn?t advise anyone to go for the 256MB card, but if this is your only choice it is something that you should consider.

The biggest problem is that far too many cool games are out and people are out of patience, but luckily for ATI, Nvidia is struggling to ship its G92 / D8P based 8800GT cards as well.

The ATI market should stabilise in about two weeks, so you should be able to buy a Radeon 3850 512MB at the latest at that time.

 

[JPB]

The guy's/ gal's here with a 3850, can you please post your overclock achievements on your card? This 512 3850 should overclock to be a 3870 nonetheless. And a pair of them sound's pretty sweet.

 

[Martimus]

I overclocked mine pretty conservatively to 700/999. I haven't had any issues so far. I would go higher, but I haven't felt the need in any of the games I have played.

edit: I am pretty sure I will up the memory to 1050 tonight, so that it runs at 3X the shader clock speed. (effective speed would be 2100MHz)

The system used:
ECS KN1 Extreme
AMD Athlon X2 4200+ @ 2.3GHz
4 Corsair DDR1 400MHz 512MB DIMM chips at 2.5-3-3-5
HIS HD 3850 256MB @ 700/999
Windows XP home - 32bit

 

[amheck]

I'm buying a 3850 once prices start to come down from MSRP. Any idea what the extra RAM will add to the cost?

 

[tvdang7]

? its already at msrp.

 

[nonameo]

any idea on what the price will be for these?

 

[bryanW1995]

best guess is that they'll be $20 more than 3850 and $20 less than 3870. getting to 775 core or higher shouldn't be too hard, but it might be hard to get 1126 mem.