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Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:04 pm
by Apoptosis
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FedEx just recently dropped off this mystery package the other day, which turns out it was one of our friends at ATI. As the water tight box had an ATI sticker on the outside.
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Once the box was opened a shiny new ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics card was found to be inside! Too bad a driver disc wasn't included!
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:29 pm
by dicecca112
wow no driver cd? That's a little shocking. Here nate have this unreleased card, but have fun finding the drivers
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Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:34 pm
by Apoptosis
they are on a FTP
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:39 pm
by pastorjay
Holy Freakin' Cow!
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:43 pm
by ViPeR.Ja
damn i want that card
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:58 pm
by dicecca112
Apoptosis wrote:they are on a FTP
well that's fine then. Enjoy the new toy
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:24 pm
by maj0r_pawnage
did they tell you when mine will be coming?
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:43 pm
by Apoptosis
maj0r_pawnage wrote:did they tell you when mine will be coming?
you didn't get it yet?
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:07 pm
by KnightRid
Here I was happy spending money for an 8800GT
I really need to move closer to you so I can help you out by signing for your packages
Mike
I wanna see comparisons with the 8800GT single gpu
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:14 pm
by w00fd06
WOW, that is beautiful
.... when will we be seeing some benches? [cough]no rush, of course[/cough]
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:43 pm
by Bwall
If I were a betting man, I would say next week-ish. At least that's what the internet rumors tell me.
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:53 pm
by DMB2000uk
Not only do you get a nice card in the post, you get an awesome lunchbox too!
Dan
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:13 pm
by Zertz
Awesome!
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:25 pm
by maj0r_pawnage
Apoptosis wrote:maj0r_pawnage wrote:did they tell you when mine will be coming?
you didn't get it yet?
i think mine is stuck @ customs
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:35 pm
by werty316
OMG, I am so looking forward to the review
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:28 am
by sygnus21
Hmmm.....can you post pictures of the actual card?
Canx, didn't see the LR pictures.
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:16 pm
by skier
is this the card thats going into a contest here, or is that one a single chip 3870
*btw, when is that contest starting?
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:23 pm
by maj0r_pawnage
Are they going to release a 3850x2
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:45 pm
by Methious
Beautiful card, guess I'm just weird I want the box.
Re: Special Package from AMD Just Arrived - Radeon HD 3870 X2
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:38 pm
by w00fd06
some benchmarks just popped up over in china:
http://www.pconline.com.cn/diy/graphics ... 10234.html (WARNING: may and probably will need a translator)
according to the inquirer, it does in fact perform better than the 8800 Ultra:
Paul Taylor from INQ wrote:you can see the 3870X2 pulling ahead of an 8800Ultra, 14573 to 10676 in 3DMark06 – with the “old” drivers, we assume.
Great news for the AMD fanboys like myself
, here's the INQ link:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... x2-delayed
edit:
ignore the intel cpu in my sig