YoGi-Sama
Skilled
Graphic... intoxicated !!
Yay !!! Finally it arrived.... :clap:
The Package
Rather dull brown box, eh? I wonder what does it hold inside......
let's see....
The Card - Sapphire HD3870 Toxic
The long and short of it. It's longer than my previous card (6600GT, I know... too old). It's single slot... and it's blue (not ATi red). Construction of the card is top notch. The vapor-x cooler is single slot, yet it contributes very well to card's overall weight. The fixing of cooler is nice and sturdy. The cooler itself scream of quality and solid construction. All in all, the product physically shows what you paid for.
The Bundle
The usual suspects and more.... Driver CD, PowerDVD and DVD authoring softwares, Valve Black Box product key to download the whole game from steam (I hate you valve).
The connectors include, DVI-to-VGA, DVI-to-HDMI, 6pin PCIe-Molex adaptor, S-Video-to-Component, S-Video-to-Composite cables and CrossFire bridge.
The card came wrapped in bubble bag, sandwiched between those two thick foam sheets. I had heard that sapphire does some real good packaging, and now I can confirm that it's true.
The Cooler
Vapor-x cooler, the reason I bought this card. It's single slot cooler, better than stock dual slot cooler of HD3870, silent and effective.
Rear end...
You can see the end of fins used in Vapor-x cooler, facing memory heatsink. A single 6-pin PCI-e connector is sufficient to juice this card.
The other rear end...
Another angle of HD3870 Toxic card. Regular stuff on connection end, two dual-link DVI and S-Video out for connecting to TV screens.
Installed and Set
This card is quite huge, thought it doesn't seem so by pictures. Compared to my age old 6600GT it's pretty big. I can only now imagine, how monstrous HD3870X2 or 8800 ultra cards would be.
Installed and Set
Sapphire chose to go with blue pcb instead on signature red of ATi... but I'm not complaining. It's blue, matches my light color in cabby. What more can you ask from a card?
Numbers....
Here is the real kicker... the damage. Rs. 7800!!!hyeah:hyeah:
Card specs
Some benchmark numbers, you ask? well, here goes...
3DMark 05 : 14582 marks
3DMark 06 : 11291 marks
These are at default settings, without any overclocking of CPU/GPU.
I don't have much games installed right now, but whatever I have these are the numbers.
Far Cry ( 1680 x 1050, HDR enabled, 4xAA, 8xAF, Ultra Details, SM 3.0) : 36.04 FPS
Far Cry ( 1680 x 1050, HDR enabled, 0xAA, 0xAF, Ultra Details, SM 3.0) : 80 FPS
Half-Life : Lost Coast ( 1680 x 1050, HDR enabled, 6xMSAA, 16xAF, All settings high) : 116.3 FPS
Surprised? Me too. Considering that it kinda chocked in FC once the AA and AF was increased, it didn't show any ill-effect in HL with higher AA & AF.
Besides these, I played NFSMW for a while... with all settings high the game was smooth as butter at top speed crashing in police cars.
GoW, would crawl at intense fight scenes on 6600GT (nothing surprising), even with all settings at low. GoW runs like a charm with everything set to max with post-processing set to intense, without breaking a sweat.
It's no point writing about Quake 3. Even my proxy server's onboard GMA (845 chipset) can run it.. But it's fun game nevertheless. I had tweaked my config for maximum eyecandy, and I would get around 85-90 FPS @ 1680x1050 resolution on 6600GT. Now it's jumped to 125FPS without blinking twice.
Temperature numbers are amazing as well... the card idle around 40-41º, and haven't crossed 65º as yet on full load. I did bit of stress test (15 mins) using ATi Tool, and it maxed out at 65º. Interesting part was that, even at full load, the fan remained at 50% speed. So I guess little tweaking, and getting fan to spin bit faster can produce even better temp results. Nevertheless, the card is dead silent. I haven't experienced the loud whine of fan for short period, at system startup that many have mentioned on net.
All in all... so far I'm happy with the card. I still have to look in avivo side of it. But a quick run in some of the dvds I had, all looked good. Specially there are couple of nasty Indian dvds (of hollywood flicks) I have, which shows heavy interlacing in many scenes. I don't know about Purevideo on 8xxx series card, but Purevideo on my 6600GT would give me decent de-interlacing. Avivo, on the other hand... gives amazing results.
Network... gigafied !!
There is one more thing that came today....
The DLink DIR-655 Gigabit + wifi router.
The Device
The packaging was neat. The router itself is covered with plastic to avoid any scratching on surface. It's very smooth and glossy, a definite smudge magnet.
The package comes with nice little stand to put router in vertical position. Nice. it's White, Shiny and Standing... bah!!
The Ports
4 x 10/100/1000 LAN, 1 x 10/100/1000 WAN, 1 x USB (utter useless, can't use for storage link or anything other than windows connect now crap), reset hole & power socket.
Numbers....
I got good deal on this as well... Rs. 4875hyeah:!!
I still have to go around setting up new network, so the bechmark numbers will come later on this.
So I all in all, Today was a good day... a very good day indeed. :hap2:
Yay !!! Finally it arrived.... :clap:
The Package
Rather dull brown box, eh? I wonder what does it hold inside......
let's see....
The Card - Sapphire HD3870 Toxic
The long and short of it. It's longer than my previous card (6600GT, I know... too old). It's single slot... and it's blue (not ATi red). Construction of the card is top notch. The vapor-x cooler is single slot, yet it contributes very well to card's overall weight. The fixing of cooler is nice and sturdy. The cooler itself scream of quality and solid construction. All in all, the product physically shows what you paid for.
The Bundle
The usual suspects and more.... Driver CD, PowerDVD and DVD authoring softwares, Valve Black Box product key to download the whole game from steam (I hate you valve).
The connectors include, DVI-to-VGA, DVI-to-HDMI, 6pin PCIe-Molex adaptor, S-Video-to-Component, S-Video-to-Composite cables and CrossFire bridge.
The card came wrapped in bubble bag, sandwiched between those two thick foam sheets. I had heard that sapphire does some real good packaging, and now I can confirm that it's true.
The Cooler
Vapor-x cooler, the reason I bought this card. It's single slot cooler, better than stock dual slot cooler of HD3870, silent and effective.
Rear end...
You can see the end of fins used in Vapor-x cooler, facing memory heatsink. A single 6-pin PCI-e connector is sufficient to juice this card.
The other rear end...
Another angle of HD3870 Toxic card. Regular stuff on connection end, two dual-link DVI and S-Video out for connecting to TV screens.
Installed and Set
This card is quite huge, thought it doesn't seem so by pictures. Compared to my age old 6600GT it's pretty big. I can only now imagine, how monstrous HD3870X2 or 8800 ultra cards would be.
Installed and Set
Sapphire chose to go with blue pcb instead on signature red of ATi... but I'm not complaining. It's blue, matches my light color in cabby. What more can you ask from a card?
Numbers....
Here is the real kicker... the damage. Rs. 7800!!!
hyeah:hyeah:Card specs
Some benchmark numbers, you ask? well, here goes...
3DMark 05 : 14582 marks
3DMark 06 : 11291 marks
These are at default settings, without any overclocking of CPU/GPU.
I don't have much games installed right now, but whatever I have these are the numbers.
Far Cry ( 1680 x 1050, HDR enabled, 4xAA, 8xAF, Ultra Details, SM 3.0) : 36.04 FPS
Far Cry ( 1680 x 1050, HDR enabled, 0xAA, 0xAF, Ultra Details, SM 3.0) : 80 FPS
Half-Life : Lost Coast ( 1680 x 1050, HDR enabled, 6xMSAA, 16xAF, All settings high) : 116.3 FPS
Surprised? Me too. Considering that it kinda chocked in FC once the AA and AF was increased, it didn't show any ill-effect in HL with higher AA & AF.
Besides these, I played NFSMW for a while... with all settings high the game was smooth as butter at top speed crashing in police cars.
GoW, would crawl at intense fight scenes on 6600GT (nothing surprising), even with all settings at low. GoW runs like a charm with everything set to max with post-processing set to intense, without breaking a sweat.
It's no point writing about Quake 3. Even my proxy server's onboard GMA (845 chipset) can run it.
. But it's fun game nevertheless. I had tweaked my config for maximum eyecandy, and I would get around 85-90 FPS @ 1680x1050 resolution on 6600GT. Now it's jumped to 125FPS without blinking twice.Temperature numbers are amazing as well... the card idle around 40-41º, and haven't crossed 65º as yet on full load. I did bit of stress test (15 mins) using ATi Tool, and it maxed out at 65º. Interesting part was that, even at full load, the fan remained at 50% speed. So I guess little tweaking, and getting fan to spin bit faster can produce even better temp results. Nevertheless, the card is dead silent. I haven't experienced the loud whine of fan for short period, at system startup that many have mentioned on net.
All in all... so far I'm happy with the card. I still have to look in avivo side of it. But a quick run in some of the dvds I had, all looked good. Specially there are couple of nasty Indian dvds (of hollywood flicks) I have, which shows heavy interlacing in many scenes. I don't know about Purevideo on 8xxx series card, but Purevideo on my 6600GT would give me decent de-interlacing. Avivo, on the other hand... gives amazing results.
Network... gigafied !!
There is one more thing that came today....
The DLink DIR-655 Gigabit + wifi router.
The Device
The packaging was neat. The router itself is covered with plastic to avoid any scratching on surface. It's very smooth and glossy, a definite smudge magnet.
The package comes with nice little stand to put router in vertical position. Nice. it's White, Shiny and Standing... bah!!
The Ports
4 x 10/100/1000 LAN, 1 x 10/100/1000 WAN, 1 x USB (utter useless, can't use for storage link or anything other than windows connect now crap), reset hole & power socket.
Numbers....
I got good deal on this as well... Rs. 4875
hyeah:!!I still have to go around setting up new network, so the bechmark numbers will come later on this.
So I all in all, Today was a good day... a very good day indeed. :hap2:
