visiontek 3870 questions

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Bman123

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I can get one locally new for $97 otd.
I play at 1280x720p how many frames can I expect ouuta this card with a stock gt5476e pc with a 64x2 5000+ @2.6ghz.I will mainly play shooters and racing games like cod4 lost planet,grid.
I know the res is low so will this card do ok in my rig?Will I be able to turn on AA/AF?
Also does anyone have the dimensions of this card?I cannot find the dims on visionteks website so please help me out here.
 
Do it, thats a sick deal.

AA?AF, AA is most likely not possible. R600 cards are bad at sampling that.
AF is somewhat doable.

1280x768 or even 1280x1024 is possible on COD 4 with all details at max and full AF and 4 x AA (only for Call of duty though, it sucks in other games)
 
I just bought the one on sale at Best Buy. Initially I thought it was a great deal, but now I know why. It suffered from lockups in all games. My guess was heat, as the fan never spun up. I used rivatuner to up the fan speed, that kept it in the mid 60c range upon exiting the game. I just couldn't take the heat. Luckily I had an extra vga waterblock lying around. So I slapped that on. Now it's sitting at 36c idle in 90f summer heat. Now the real problem with the card is the cooler. When I looked at the mating surface, my jaw hit the floor. The memory chip surface with the thermal pads was smoother than the gpu chip mating surface. It looks like someone took a large bundle of fine copper wires and pressed them into a semi flat surface. It actually looked that bad! So watch out, you get what you pay for.

Good Luck
 
I dont know if you go the one with the stock cooler or not, but the one with the zero therm cooler is perfectly fine, and no more expensive if you can find it.
 
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