RADIEN 3850 HD GRAPHIC CARD

[Yoda11]

im upgrading my graphic card to the 3850 from the 7500 le which was really bad

could anyone tell me what the 3850 is like, or if it is good

[ShyguyXPC]

to quote a line from the movie series of your name sake, sort of...

“You’ve never heard of the Millennium Falcon? … It’s the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.”

or more to the point, to paraphrase...

“You’ve never heard of the Radeon HD3850? … It’s the Video Card that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.”

LOL, well, sort of...

the 3850 will run circles around the old 7500LE... the 7500LE is based on the same series as the Geforce 7300GS if I remember?

GeForce 7 Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

VERY low end card, as compared to the HD3850 which was one of ATI's last generation top of the line cards, the current HD4670 more or less replaces it, & the HD4850 is its current successor in being 2nd or 3rd best card in ATI's lineup.

there was the HD3850, 3870, & then 3870x2 (not including the rare variant of the 3850x2 type card from one of the card manufacturers)... now there is the 4850, 4870 & 4870x2.

basically the HD3850 is in the Geforce 9600 & 8800GT/9800GT series range of cards as far as performance goes.

basically just take a look at these benchmarks comparing the HD3850 to a Geforce 7300GS:

Tom's Hardware - Benchmark Microsoft Flight Simulator X

That right there pretty much sums it all up...

the 3850 is SO many times better, its not even funny.

[Daniel524]

8800GT > HD3870 > 9600GT > HD3850

Hd3870 Struggles to get close to a 8800GT. You cannot compare a HD3850 to a 8800GT.
HD4850 competes with a 9800GTX and will beat a 8800GT, although will not run rings around it.
The 3850 not a chance.

[ShyguyXPC]

whatever, either way the point is it will run circles around the Geforce 7500LE, which is WHAT I said, I never did say it would run circles around the 8800GT series, only that its performance is somewhere with in the 9600 & 8800GT/9800GT series range, most likely the lower end of this range. which IS true (some games may very but overall this is the case)....

but like I said, the POINT is comparing his current 7500LE to the HD3850 & some other cards in which it competes with to show how much better the card IS...

[Daniel524]

Yes, now what u have to understand is that my job is not busy all the time..I sit on a computer all day, and sometimes i dont get much inbound calls. My spare time i will pick these errors out. Who gives a crap..but it comes down to the guys price...if u can pick up a 8800gt for the same price...then go with it..

[ShyguyXPC]

also to keep in mind, his system specs too...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yoda11

Model: m8070a

Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80 GHz

Memory (Ram): 1022 mb

System type: 32- bit operating system

dunno if i have the right imformation karmakilla but im 14 thats my excuse hopefully its the right imformation

from another post of his, so not 100% sure, but I'd start to get concerned about possibly bottlenecking the card with the older Pentium D CPU...

if he went for an 8800GT.