Thread: PowerColor Radeon HD3850

If the heroine of today's advertising review was in the style of detergent, washing powder and other bestsellers national television, it probably would look as follows: "Hi, Dad! -- Hi children, I bought you a new graphics card! -- Dear (taking the video card), conventional video cards contain lead, very much heated and there are not too fast! -- But what to do, expensive (in horror)? -- Dear, PowerColor HD3850 video cards do not contain cholesterol and excellent otstiryvayut even in cold water! Boring, do not contain lead and poorly heated, so… (hereinafter). " So, what is special about this PowerColor Radeon HD3850 from? Same answer to your question: not so much to qualify for the record, but enough to draw the graphics card when choosing their attention to it. After all, not only novelty is equipped with quality cooling system, faster memory than standard Radeon HD3850, but instead DVI HDMI port, although the latter can be a plus and minus.

New from PowerColor comes in a compact and very solid box. Alloy provides information on the model, the number and type of memory installed, and to the set on the map "professional" cooling system.

Before us - familiar GPU RV670 and 512 MB of memory, chosen from eight chips Samsung GDDR-3. Right in nutrition subsystem card missing two Chokes (grey). Compare the total with the standard Radeon HD3850 or Radeon HD3870 it would be incorrect because PowerColor HD3850 is based on the board's own design, and difficult for us to judge the pros and cons of it, compared with the standard. We can only assume that the quality of food from the card PowerColor HD3850 slightly worse than the reference sample.



Handling grounds radiator at altitude. The operating principle of the cooling system is simple and effective - affixed to the base of a rounded ends of the tube heat, which in turn is equipped with a heat ribs. This design is effective not only that the tube quickly gave thermal heat from the base, but that has little radiator "dead zones". Fan evenly prelazi all ribs, skewered on a heat tube. Incidentally, the cooling system made ZEROtherm firm.

The effectiveness of the cooling system, high frequency and dispersal Quality of cooling is not caused any complaints. Map progrevalas through Oblivion game with maximum settings. For 11 minutes up the temperature of the nucleus is not exceeded 48 degrees, and after dropping out less than a minute earlier fell to 35 - ty. Compared with the standard cooling system, allowing hot map almost to 90 degrees, there is progress! The only drawback is a new cooling system visible noise from the fan, which, incidentally, is always the same as for 2D, and for 3D. It turned out that the card has increased frequency compared to the reference sample. Thus, the GPU operates at 715 MHz instead of 670 MHz, and memory - at 1800 MHz instead of 1660 MHz. In further disperse videocard easily captivated for the 777 MHz and 2100 MHz GPU - for the memory, only slightly inferior to a senior video card Radeon HD3870. With further increasing frequency PowerColor HD3850 behave themselves quite the same way as we have previously considered Sapphire HD3870, occasionally hovered in 3D applications.