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Visiontek Radeon HD 3870 X2 Video Card - Overclocked Edition, 1GB GDDR3, PCI Express 2.0, CrossFireX Ready, (Dual Link) Quad DVI, HDTV, HDMI SupportItem#: V261-3874 | Model#: 900228
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Visiontek Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB PCIe 2.0 Product Details
Visiontek
Radeon HD 3870 X2 Video Card - Overclocked Edition
The VisionTek ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 X2 Overclocked Edition graphics card
enables you to experience the power of HD with 3D processing designed for ultimate
gaming. Advance to the next generation of DirectX® 10.1 compatible HD game
performance and life-like realism with dual ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 GPUs working
in exquisite precision to produce over 1 teraFLOPS of GPU compute power. And
with ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU upgradeability, you can scale your performance
to greater heights. Watch the latest Blu-ray and HD-DVD videos in full 1080p
HD – and upscale beyond - without placing huge demands on your CPU. Enjoy
breakthrough efficiency with more processing performance per watt and energy-saving
features that can help save you money.
What
It Is & Why You Need It!
- Dual-GPU technology – Don’t fear cranking up the settings
- with dual ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 GPUs working in exquisite precision,
you’re ready to dominate the battlefield.
- Over 1 teraFLOPS of GPU compute power - 640 stream processors (320
x 2) deliver the raw horsepower to attack the most demanding graphics applications.
- Incredible performance – You’ll be blown away by life-like graphics from the latest Microsoft® and future DirectX® 10.1 games, with stunning 3D graphics and shading effects.
HD Video Beyond 1080p
The latest Blu-ray and HD DVD movies play smoothly at full 1080p and your CPU
is unbound for other tasks thanks to the Unified Video Decoder. Enjoy ultimate
image quality with resolutions upscaled beyond1080p for the most processing-intensive
content. And with a choice of digital outputs, you have more options when enjoying
your digital entertainment.
Break-Through Efficiency
ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series graphics processors have breakthrough efficiency,
with up to twice the processing performance per watt than previous generations
of AMD GPUs. Take advantage of the latest graphics features that can help drive
productivity at an extraordinary price. Runs cool and quiet – With a smaller
chip designed to use less power, your system can take advantage of high-end
Windows Vista® features while running more efficiently and quieter than ever
It's
All About The "O"
This video card is very highly factory overclocked. Visiontek has taken the
Radeon HD 3870 X2 GPU and equipped it with 1GB of GDDR3, increased the GPU core
speed from 825MHz to 850MHz, and increased the memory clock to 1960MHz (vs.
1800MHz standard).
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Knowledge
Before You Buy! Make sure your motherboard is compatible with this video card. For example, PCI Express video cards won't work with motherboards designed only for AGP or PCI video cards, and vice versa. Please read the specifications carefully or call us for expert advice. ESSENTIAL
SPECS: |
 DirectX 10.1 Technology |
 Shader Model 4.1 Technology |
 Unified Video Decoder Technology (UVD) |
 AVIVO™ HD |
- ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU
Upgrade to even greater 3D performance quickly and easily thanks to plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX technology with up to quad-GPU support. ATI CrossfireX technology enabled on single card. Internal CrossfireX technology enabled design, without additional flexible CrossfireX bridge - Ultimate HD Gaming
Advance to ultimate HD gaming with incredible performance, life-like graphics and support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1. With ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series GPUs powering your gaming experience, you’re ready to dominate the battlefield. And thanks to plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX™ upgradeability, you can scale your performance to even greater heights.
Prepare to DOMINATE!
- Ultimate Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 Performance
You’ll be blown away by life-like graphics from the latest DirectX® 10.1 games, with stunning 3D graphics and shading effects. - Shader Model 4.1 Technology
Get your box geared up for the future of games with blazing fast shader performance and watch your characters sweat with Shader Model 4.1
- Unified Video Decoder Technology (UVD)
Upgrade to even greater 3D performance quickly and easily thanks to plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX technology with up to quad-GPU support.
- Ultimate Image Quality
Performance that rivals high-end HD-DVD and Blu-ray players on displays with resolutions that exceed 1080p – up to 2560x1600. - Integrated Digital Outputs
Enjoy your digital content the way you want to, with built-in HDMI that includes 5.1 surround audio for big screen entertainment and the latest in display connectivity; DisplayPort™ technology. - More Processing Performance per Watt
Upgrade to even greater 3D performance quickly and easily thanks to plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX technology with up to quad-GPU support. - ATI PowerPlay™ Technology
power saving features that reduce power consumption at idle or during low-usage - Runs Cool and Quiet
With a smaller chip designed to use less power, your system can take advantage of high-end Windows Vista® features while running more efficiently and quieter than ever. - Be More Productive
See more and do more of your work and entertainment with advanced multi-monitor support. - Ideal for high end gamer or workstation professional
- Quad Heatpipes Silent Fan
- Variable speed quiet, Dual 7.5cm fans controlled by temperature
- Massive copper Quad heatpipe driven cooling apparatus
- 48 PCI-E lanes for switching – 16 lanes communicate with PCIE bus, 16 lanes to 2 GPUs respectively.
- Superscalar unified shader architecture
- 320 x2 stream processing units
- Support for the ATI Radeon™ DVI to HDMI adapter
- Dynamic geometry acceleration
- Game physics processing capability
- Windows Vista - The Ultimate Experience
The cards GPUs provide total support for the Microsoft® Windows Vista® operating system and improve the performance of the Windows Aero™ graphical interface. You will be amazed by the dazzling 3D visual effects and have peace of mind that the ATI Catalyst™ software and drivers are designed and thoroughly tested to ensure full compatibility and stability to keep you up and running.
- PCI Express 2.0 Support
PCI Express Base 2.0 specification doubles the interconnect bit rate from 2.5 GT/s to 5 GT/s in a seamless and compatible manner. The performance boost to 5 GT/s is by far the most important feature of the PCI Express 2.0 specifications. It effectively increases the aggregate bandwidth of a 16-lane link to approximately 16 GB/s. The higher bandwidth will allow product designers to implement narrower interconnect links to achieve high performance.
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| Windows
Vista Certified Have confidence that Certified for Windows Vista products will provide superior experiences with your videos running the Windows Vista operating system.That's because only Certified for Windows Vista devices have undergone Microsoft compatibility tests for ease-of-use, better performance and enhanced security. |
| PCI
Express 2.0 Support Designed to run perfectly with the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, offering a future-proofing bridge to tomorrow's most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications by maximizing the 5GT/s PCI Express 2.0 bandwidth (twice that of first generation PCI Express). PCI Express 2.0 products are fully backwards compatible with existing PCI Express motherboards for the broadest support. |
A Closer Look
Minimum System Requirements
- Intel® Pentium® 4, Celeron, AMD™ Athlon™ 64, AMD™
Athlon XP™, Sempron or compatible
- PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available
on the motherboard
- 550 Watt or greater power supply with two 2x3-pin PCIe® power connectors
required (750 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for dual ATI CrossFireX™)
- Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU
for a list of Certified products
- 1GB of system memory
- Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
- DVD playback requires DVD drive
- Blu-ray™ / HD DVD playback requires Blu-ray / HD DVD drive
- For a complete ATI CrossFireX™ system an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per board (included) are required for a two card setup
| Visiontek Radeon HD 3870 X2 Video Card Enhancing your gaming and graphics design performance, the Visiontek Radeon HD 3870 X2 Overclocked Edition graphics card has 1GB GDDR3 video memory, supports PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture and is CrossFireX-ready. The video card is very highly factory overclocked. Its improved efficiency includes more processing performance per watt and energy-saving features that help you save money. The graphics card gives you the chance to experience ultimate gaming through high-definition (HD) 3D processing. Its PCI Express 2.0 support offers a future-proofing bridge to upcoming bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications by maximizing the 5GT/s PCI Express 2.0 bandwidth, which is twice that of first-generation PCI Express.
This DirectX® 10.1-compatible card delivers HD game performance and life-like realism through two ATI Radeon HD 3870 GPUs working in exquisite precision to produce over one teraFLOPS of GPU compute power. You can scale your performance to greater heights using ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU upgradeability, and enjoy movies in next-generation formats in full 1080p HD.
Having dual GPU technology allows your computer to tackle even the most demanding applications and the most complex games. Digital entertainment is not compromised, even when you do other work-related tasks. It is HDTV-ready, Windows Vista-certified and supports HDCP, which protects digital entertainment content that is transmitted through digital video interfaces. It supports a maximum digital resolution of 2560x1600 pixels, 850MHz core clocking and has two 320 stream processors. Using AVIVO HD technology, the graphics card provides advanced HD image processing, delivering cool and quiet full-specification HD disc playback with hardware-based Unified Video Decoding (UVD) capability, built-in HDMI with multi-channel HD surround audio, and support for high-quality connectivity with multiple HDTVs and other displays.
The card’s ATI GPUs provide total support for the Microsoft Windows Vista and improve the performance of the Windows Aero graphical interface. Your games will be remarkably improved with 3D visual effects. Its ATI Catalyst software and drivers are designed and thoroughly tested to ensure full compatibility and stability to keep your applications up and running. The video card also have HDTV/S-Video dual link quad DVI, HDMI and dual VGA connectors, the last two will require adapters. It also supports multiple monitors for the multitasking you.
As the ultimate HD gaming graphics card, Visiontek Radeon HD 3870 X2 sustains incredible performance, vivid, detailed and amazing life-like graphics. And with plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX upgradeability, you can scale your performance to even greater heights.
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What's Included
- Visiontek Radeon HD 3870 X2 Video Card - Overclocked Edition
- Quick Installation Guide
- Installation Guide
- HDTV Cable
- DVI to HDMI Adapter
- (2) Two DVI to VGA Adapters
Specifications
Connections |
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| Interface Type | PCI Express 2.0 | ||||||||
| Interface Speed | x16 | ||||||||
| Connector(s) | HDTV/S-Video | ||||||||
| HDMI (w/ Adapter) | |||||||||
| Dual VGA (w/adapters) | |||||||||
| Quad DVI (Dual Link) | |||||||||
| Multiple Monitors Support | Yes | ||||||||
Lifestyle |
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| Chipset | ATI Radeon | ||||||||
| GPU Series | ATI Radeon HD 3000 | ||||||||
| Lifestyle | Performance | ||||||||
Performance |
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| GPU/VPU | RADEON HD 3870 X2 | ||||||||
| Maximum Resolution | 2560 x 1600 (Digital) | ||||||||
| Additional Features | HDCP Enabled | ||||||||
| HDTV Ready | |||||||||
| PCI Express 2.0 | |||||||||
| Vista Certified | |||||||||
Memory |
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| Memory Type | GDDR3 | ||||||||
| Memory Interface | 256-bit x2 | ||||||||
| Video Memory | 1GB | ||||||||
| Stream Processors | 320 x2 | ||||||||
| Core Clock | 850 MHz | ||||||||
| Memory Clock | 1960 MHz | ||||||||
Features |
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| Overclocked | Yes | ||||||||
| APIs | DirectX 10 | ||||||||
| 1080p Support | Yes | ||||||||
| Video Output | DVI | ||||||||
| S-Video | |||||||||
| Low Profile | No | ||||||||
| Cooling Type | Fan | ||||||||
| Heatsink | |||||||||
| Multi-GPU Support | CrossFire-X | ||||||||
Dynamic
link speed management – to control the speed at which the link is operating
Customer Reviews
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4.1- Features
- 4.9
- Quality
- 4.3
- Performance
- 4.2
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5.0
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- 5.0
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- 5.0
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- 5.0
- Reviewer:
- The Vine B
- Date:
- Apr 19, 2011
WOW what can i say
This product is the best value and has the best features i have ever had. If they still sold them i wuld buy another one. I have owned one of this since NOV 2008, although the first one stopped working in june of 2010, I didn't have a single problem with Visiontek replacing it with a new one. They told me me they would have a new one out in 3weeks it only took 2 weeks. The customer support was amazing, and im am very pleased to have done business with them and i wanna thank them for helping decide what was best for my needs. As im ready to buy another one to do crossfire, so i can expand the screens to 8 screens. Thank you so much, very HIGHLY recomended card, if you compare this to other cards your gonna pay 600-900 dallors if not more, when you can purchase this one for under 300.00. Thanks again
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2.0
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- 1.0
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- 5.0
- Quality
- 1.0
- Performance
- 1.0
- Reviewer:
- warpymoopl
- Date:
- Mar 07, 2009
First of all, on the upside, this card offers some really great features, especially double/quad headed monitor setup. The downside is that after a couple of weeks my card died. I sent it back to Visiontek in the latter part of Dec 2008. I received it beginning Jan 2009, and it is still dead. So, shipping costs, downtime, and disappointment. I do think that if you get a good card, life is good, and probably deserves 5 stars, however, my experience has been radically different. Good Luck.
- Overall
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5.0
- Value
- 5.0
- Features
- 5.0
- Quality
- 5.0
- Performance
- 5.0
- Reviewer:
- Anonymous
- Date:
- Feb 25, 2009
Very nice card, runs everything perfect.
- Overall
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5.0
- Value
- 5.0
- Features
- 5.0
- Quality
- 5.0
- Performance
- 5.0
- Reviewer:
- Borgster
- Date:
- Feb 10, 2009
Been running mine since 2008 febuary and I have nothing bad to say I have owned ATI and Nvidia but my last 3 cards have been Nvidia playing Left 4 Dead everything MAX on a 25.5 samsung lcd @ 1920 x 1200 runs perfect. Mine is the Asus 3870x2 and I am selling it to upgrade once again. Anyone interested and (300 dollars) comes with everything original box bill of sale 510.00+tax and remainder of the 3 year warranty. borgster@hotmail.com
- Overall
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4.8
- Value
- 4.0
- Features
- 5.0
- Quality
- 5.0
- Performance
- 5.0
- Reviewer:
- Anonymous
- Date:
- Nov 11, 2008
Great card. I was worried about the length of the regular 3870x2 and 4870x2, and decided to go with this one, not sure if the size is the same or not but it looked smaller on screen, and am glad I did. A very nice overclock and FANtastic cooling Lol, have yet to meet its match in game: running flight sims, halo 2, and shadowrun. Price seems about right, so BUY IT!
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Warranty provided by: VisionTek
Limited Warranty: This product has a Lifetime Limited Warranty.
Mfg Part No: 900228
UPC No: 78409002499
Box Size: ( Length: 13, Width: 5, Depth: 7 )
Shipping Weight: 3.1000 pound(s)
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