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Product Application:

PCI-E Video Card
Product Provided by: Sapphire

Available at:

NewEgg.com

Estimated Online Price:

$189.99

Availability:

Now

Review by:

Joe

Edited by:

Scott

Review date:

April 30, 2008
 

The Bundle:

The bundle for the Sapphire 3850 is pretty good, as it contains Cyberlink's PowerDVD and DVD Suite, which enables high-definition playback supporting the GPU acceleration scheme known as AVIVO.  Also included are the full version of 3DMark06, and Valve's Black Box, with Team Fortress 2, Portal and Half-Life 2 Episode 2.  Free games and software are always a plus, especially when they are well known. 

The connectors and converters include, from top to bottom: a Molex to PCI-e power converter, TV-Out to Component, TV-Out to Composite, DVI to HDMI, DVI to VGA, and a Crossfire bridge.  The only difference in the bundle from the 3870 Toxic is there is no HDMI cable here.

Layout:

The layout from the 3870 Toxic to the 3850 is very much the same, other than the different coolers.  The Toxic has more heatsink, while the 3850 utilizes a larger fan. 

The back side of the 3850 is also very similar.  If you look closely, you can see that the PCB is not quite the same, but very close.

On the rear side of the card, we can get a nice close view of the extra heatsink, as well as the 6-pin power connector. 

On the front side, we can see the Dual DVI ports, as well as the TV-Out that looks similar to an S-video plug. 

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