I thought it was a mistake but I checked the Sapphire site and they do sell a 512mb as well as a 1gb. Anyone seen any reviews for this card? Will the reduced memory cause a big performance hit?
Probably ideal card to run graphics intensive games at lower resolution, but I would imagine the (relative) lack of memory would really hurt output at higher res.
An interesting card nonetheless, and a pretty damn good price as well!
sapphire is a waste of money. Sapphire has the worst customer service of any hardware company i have ever delt with. I had a 3870 go bad after 35 days. 6 weeks of emails and calls to sapphire and i never got one single reply.
Even tho my card was past the 30day return policy that newegg offered, newegg refunded my money because Sapphire did not honor its obligations. props to newegg for supporting its products.
Google sapphire support and gr33gecko(the forum admin). There are a lot of people with the same story about sapphire. They are a scam.
i would suggest buying from another manufacturer, Diamond, HIS, etc.
Message edited by 50bmg on 03-02-2008 at 03:36:34 PM
If they do then each GPU gets 256MB of memory allocated to them.
Waste of money IMO
I reckon you're wrong there. If you want a card that can run games at decent details at a resolution lower than 1440x900 then i reckon it'd be a sound choice. Not everyone has large monitors with high screen resolutions.
I reckon you're wrong there. If you want a card that can run games at decent details at a resolution lower than 1440x900 then i reckon it'd be a sound choice. Not everyone has large monitors with high screen resolutions.
True, but I am assuming that someone who would spend that much on a video card would pair it with a high end monitor. Plus games are becoming more and more demanding so 256MB may not cut it for much longer.
If you have a lower res monitor and aren't going with this card for the long run then it's fine.
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Strange... it also says GDDR4. I'm almost certain ATI hasn't completed the reference card for rev2 of the 3870x2. The Rev2 version is supposed to upgrade from DDR3->DDR4, and up the pcie bridge chip to pcie2.0 compliant. I call shenanigans.
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