Radeon 3870 & 3850 in stock (BUY HERE)

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
you are a bad person swtethan. The post I made earlier was in reference to your 3dmark06 score of 14500+. there were 31099 people with faster systems, I simply meant that I wanted one of those systems 🙂

WOuld you like one of my ATI cards?

 

[aiya24]

Originally posted by: swtethan

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
shhhhh, op needs to change title to "hd3870 is 300+, nothing to see here". after we buy ours we can start our own thread...🙂

edit: deizel, I hope this doesn't come across as a flame or personal attack or anything but YOU MUST DIE NOW. well, I feel better now 🙂

I just ordered 4 of these from the egg. Hurry up!

why the hell do you need 4 now??? the motherboards for them aren't even out yet. scared it'll be in limited supply like the 8800GTs?

 

[bryanW1995]

they should have limited the purchases to one per person per day or something like that to prevent this sort of thing.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: aiya24

Originally posted by: swtethan

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
shhhhh, op needs to change title to "hd3870 is 300+, nothing to see here". after we buy ours we can start our own thread...🙂

edit: deizel, I hope this doesn't come across as a flame or personal attack or anything but YOU MUST DIE NOW. well, I feel better now 🙂

I just ordered 4 of these from the egg. Hurry up!

why the hell do you need 4 now??? the motherboards for them aren't even out yet. scared it'll be in limited supply like the 8800GTs?

4 systems

 

[thilanliyan]

Originally posted by: aiya24
why the hell do you need 4 now??? the motherboards for them aren't even out yet. scared it'll be in limited supply like the 8800GTs?

Yeah they are...I've seen the Gigabyte 790FX motherboard on sale here in Canada.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
they should have limited the purchases to one per person per day or something like that to prevent this sort of thing.

Then how ever would I purchase FOUR cards?


FOUR Cards
FOUR Cards
FOUR Cards
FOUR Cards
FOUR Cards
FOUR Cards
FOUR Cards
FOUR Cards
FOUR Cards

I know, Im a bad person

 

[NaughtyGeek]

Had one ordered from Diamond but when I saw someone else had gotten a backorder notice from them I ordered one from The Egg. If I don't get a backorder notice from Diamond, does anyone want me not to cancel the order?

 

[bryanW1995]

diamond is 245 shipped vs 225 for newegg (assuming they get more in stock). If the stocking rumors for 3870 are true then the price should stay in the 220-230 range for the long term.

 

[sliderule]

The Diamond 3870 I had in my cart from newegg is now showing an ETA of 11-26. 🙁

Bah, think I might wait for a 8800gt.

 

[bryanW1995]

yeah, 11/22 for sapphire. his doesn't even have one yet...

<<<---planning break-in at swtethan's pad in a few days.

 

[Aiden]

Originally posted by: sliderule
The Diamond 3870 I had in my cart from newegg is now showing an ETA of 11-26. 🙁

Bah, think I might wait for a 8800gt.

im willing to wait for a 8800gt, provided the price drops. The only decent price i have seen lately is zipzoomflys 249$ for the stock evga card. Unfortuntely i can only wait so long, as i need the card to build a 2nd system for the family, and i have been waiting for 4 months now on the new cards to come out.

Plan on putting the 8800 in my box, and using my old 7900 for the 2nd one.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
yeah, 11/22 for sapphire. his doesn't even have one yet...

<<<---planning break-in at swtethan's pad in a few days.

watch out for the guard pomeranian!

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
yeah, 11/22 for sapphire. his doesn't even have one yet...

<<<---planning break-in at swtethan's pad in a few days.

Also.... I would think you would go for my 780MHz VF1000 cooler 8800GT instead.

 

[Stoneburner]

I didn't pull the trigger but got to the last screen at outpost. It's 266 after tax and shipping for me and nothing indicates its not in stock. for non californians it could be a decent deal.

 

[deizel]

Newegg definitely had them in stock earlier today. My Diamond 3870 shipped.

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
shhhhh, op needs to change title to "hd3870 is 300+, nothing to see here". after we buy ours we can start our own thread...🙂

edit: deizel, I hope this doesn't come across as a flame or personal attack or anything but YOU MUST DIE NOW. well, I feel better now 🙂

Hey now at least you have an Intel Dual core I still have a single core AMD 64 3700+ 🙁 I need to upgrade the rest of my crappy computer soon.

 

[BladeVenom]

Originally posted by: taltamir
good point... those cards CHOKE at anything higher then 1280x768.... at 1920x1200 they perform at 1/3 th performance of a GT.... so you xfire them for? higher framerate while playing at max settings on 800x600 resolution in crysis? I am not even sure it will work well then..

Do yourself a favor and get a single 3870, or two if you can afford it... but no point in crossfiring the 3850

Maybe you should at least read Anandtech's own review. Multi-GPU Scaling: Two 3850s = One 8800 GTX?

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: BladeVenom

Originally posted by: taltamir
good point... those cards CHOKE at anything higher then 1280x768.... at 1920x1200 they perform at 1/3 th performance of a GT.... so you xfire them for? higher framerate while playing at max settings on 800x600 resolution in crysis? I am not even sure it will work well then..

Do yourself a favor and get a single 3870, or two if you can afford it... but no point in crossfiring the 3850

Maybe you should at least read Anandtech's own review. Multi-GPU Scaling: Two 3850s = One 8800 GTX?

Scaling looks pretty good from the Radeon HD 3850, however it's still not as good as what NVIDIA is able to achieve with the 8800 GT. NVIDIA consistently achieves about 11% better scaling from one to two GPUs than AMD.

The other problem with CrossFire is that it simply doesn't always work, so a pair of 3850s is not necessarily a better option than a single 8800 GT or GTX. Case in point would be the two other games that we wanted to include here: Quake Wars and Call of Duty 4, both gave us lower frame rates with CF enabled than without. AMD's release notes for the Radeon HD 3800 drivers informs us that some applications may show a performance decrease with CF enabled, so we're not too surprised.






also Im pretty sure an overclocked 8800GT @700+ core can match a GTX or beat it

 

[LOUISSSSS]

anyone know how the 3850 will run CS:S @ 1680x1050 MAX SETTINGS in a 40 person server?

think i'll manage 100fps stable?

i dont think that was capable for my 8800gts 640mb

 

[sliderule]

Originally posted by: swtethan

Originally posted by: BladeVenom

Originally posted by: taltamir
good point... those cards CHOKE at anything higher then 1280x768.... at 1920x1200 they perform at 1/3 th performance of a GT.... so you xfire them for? higher framerate while playing at max settings on 800x600 resolution in crysis? I am not even sure it will work well then..

Do yourself a favor and get a single 3870, or two if you can afford it... but no point in crossfiring the 3850

Maybe you should at least read Anandtech's own review. Multi-GPU Scaling: Two 3850s = One 8800 GTX?

Scaling looks pretty good from the Radeon HD 3850, however it's still not as good as what NVIDIA is able to achieve with the 8800 GT. NVIDIA consistently achieves about 11% better scaling from one to two GPUs than AMD.

The other problem with CrossFire is that it simply doesn't always work, so a pair of 3850s is not necessarily a better option than a single 8800 GT or GTX. Case in point would be the two other games that we wanted to include here: Quake Wars and Call of Duty 4, both gave us lower frame rates with CF enabled than without. AMD's release notes for the Radeon HD 3800 drivers informs us that some applications may show a performance decrease with CF enabled, so we're not too surprised.






also Im pretty sure an overclocked 8800GT @700+ core can match a GTX or beat it

This is exactly why I hate the idea of sli and crossfire, I'd much rather have a single powerful card.

 

[bryanW1995]

if everybody is going sli/xfire for the long term then they'll almost certainly come out with solid/stable drivers for it... at least you would think that they would...

I just got back from best buy. I figured, "what the heck, maybe newegg is out b/c best buy got all the good video cards." wrong-o, moosebreath! they had zero (0) 8800gt's, they had zero 3870's, BUT, they did have a 7300gt 512mb for 149.99...man, that was tempting... the sales lady told me that they don't stock the 3870 at that store but that she can get me one...for 399.99!!!!! I almost killed her, but I figured that I'd have a hard time explaining that away as "justifiable homicide". Oh well, at least I still have the best buy coupon...

 

[ROEHUNTER]

Originally posted by: Stoneburner
I didn't pull the trigger but got to the last screen at outpost. It's 266 after tax and shipping for me and nothing indicates its not in stock. for non californians it could be a decent deal.

Well I got to that same screen and DID pull the trigger on 2 3870's. It says it will ship today ,but that remains to be seen. Total was 482.49 with overnight shipping. I was trying to check the egg quite often today but I missed the release, so this looked like my next best option.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: ROEHUNTER

Originally posted by: Stoneburner
I didn't pull the trigger but got to the last screen at outpost. It's 266 after tax and shipping for me and nothing indicates its not in stock. for non californians it could be a decent deal.

Well I got to that same screen and DID pull the trigger on 2 3870's. It says it will ship today ,but that remains to be seen. Total was 482.49 with overnight shipping. I was trying to check the egg quite often today but I missed the release, so this looked like my next best option.

Couldnt you have bought a 8800GTX for that price?

 

[bryanW1995]

they're out now, too. they do have a 3850 for 229.99...grrrrr...

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: swtethan

Originally posted by: ROEHUNTER

Originally posted by: Stoneburner
I didn't pull the trigger but got to the last screen at outpost. It's 266 after tax and shipping for me and nothing indicates its not in stock. for non californians it could be a decent deal.

Well I got to that same screen and DID pull the trigger on 2 3870's. It says it will ship today ,but that remains to be seen. Total was 482.49 with overnight shipping. I was trying to check the egg quite often today but I missed the release, so this looked like my next best option.

Couldnt you have bought a 8800GTX for that price?

He could, but 2x 3870's perform better. Whether the drivers are decent still remains to be seen, though.

 

[ROEHUNTER]

Originally posted by: swtethan

Originally posted by: ROEHUNTER

Originally posted by: Stoneburner
I didn't pull the trigger but got to the last screen at outpost. It's 266 after tax and shipping for me and nothing indicates its not in stock. for non californians it could be a decent deal.

Well I got to that same screen and DID pull the trigger on 2 3870's. It says it will ship today ,but that remains to be seen. Total was 482.49 with overnight shipping. I was trying to check the egg quite often today but I missed the release, so this looked like my next best option.

Couldnt you have bought a 8800GTX for that price?

But then my Crossfire MB would go to waste .

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
they're out now, too. they do have a 3850 for 229.99...grrrrr...

Yes this has me worried that I am getting ready to get an email with notice of backorder.