FS: Radeon HD3870 512MB

[Wesley Crusher]

-- Sapphire Radeon HD3870 512MB sold.
-- HIS Radeon HD3870 512MB sold.

[Krythos]

Wes. more specs on the card please, I might be interested... like what kind of connection does it use, and have you tried it out? or is it unopened?

[Wesley Crusher]

PCI-Express 16X

Purchased in December, used intermittently as I've been swapping around graphics cards too often (8800GT, 3850, 3870) :)

Just like the one in the review here: HIS HD3870 review @ HardwareCanucks (http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/3270-his-radeon-hd3870-review-crossfire-performance-preview-3.html)

BIOS flashed with one that fixes the fan controller (it never used to ramp up when things got hot causing it to throttle its speed), and I also re-applied the thermal paste between the GPU and the heatsink.

If you're (or anyone is) interested in Crossfire, I also have a Sapphire HD3870 512MB that I am currently using in Crossfire mode to make it $400 for the pair.

[Boodah]

^ highly recommend this card. It beats my 2900XT HD in alot of benchmarks and my card is twice the price, somehow.

[iheartyou]

yeah 3870's are pretty sweet, fairly priced and now Wes is selling it a discount, one really can't go wrong. Great buy!
Wes when you get an 9800Gtx hook me up =D

[Hieyeck]

Tempting, but http://www.dailytech.com/AMD+Preempts+GeForce+9600+GT+Cuts+Radeon+Prices/article10796.htm

It'll only be a lil longer til the prices come to Canada. And once the 9800 is out, the 3870x2 will drop. Nom nom nom.

[iheartyou]

The HIS version which Wes so kindly put up for sale, is overclocked and has the HIS fan on it, even wiht the price drops this is a steal.
Even with the release of teh 9800x2 which is gonna retail for $599(more for the oc'd version) the 3870x2 will not likely drop($450ish) at all as its sitting at a very competitive pricepoint for its marget segment. As with the results of the 9600gt's in SLI compare very well to teh 3870x2 as they scale incredibly well(most likely a driver result not hardware) so the prcing is not likely to fall anywhere substaintial een wiht the release of the 9800gts/gtx's comming in March.

[MiNdWaRp]

Tempting, but http://www.dailytech.com/AMD+Preempts+GeForce+9600+GT+Cuts+Radeon+Prices/article10796.htm

It'll only be a lil longer til the prices come to Canada. And once the 9800 is out, the 3870x2 will drop. Nom nom nom.

Don't try post better deals in FS threads...

[Hieyeck]

I wasn't aware manufacturer announcements regarding MSRPs equated to better deals.

[ArchAngel2]

Does anyone else find it kind of funny that Nvidia's model numbers are going to overlap ATIs from a few years ago?

Or am I just insane?

[Hieyeck]

no, i find it amusing as well. it's going to be confusing for a while...

person a: sweet! i got a new 9800!
person b: uh... they still make those?