Word has been floating around the big cyber town we call the internet that the new WHQL drivers were going to give some much needed performance increases to the just launched GTX 200 series of cards.
We figured that graphs speak louder than words, so today we took the time to test the new drivers under [...]

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ATI’s HD 3650 replaces the HD 2600 Pro, a frustrating underachiever. Generally, I dislike video cards in the $50-100 range, mainly because they’re not going to play new games well and, if you’re after features, then you’re better off buying a lesser model from the same series.
The features here are the real selling points–I’m going [...]

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Vanilla, overclocked, and custom-cooled Radeon HD 3870s have been available long enough to cast a shadow over ATI’s best single-GPU video card.
Under the heatsink is a whole lot of GDDR3, which in itself doesn’t mean much–you can find a pile of budget cards with a gig of RAM, the extra memory incapable of boosting their [...]

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Guru3D takes a look at the Diamond Viper Radeon HD 3850 Ruby Edition 512MB.
Today we peek at the Diamond Viper Radeon HD 3850 512Mb Ruby edition, a lovely product. It’s a Radeon HD 3850 colored with a red PCB, a custom cooler slapped on top of it and they pre-overclocked it to get closer the [...]

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PC Perspective takes a look at the Diamond Radeon HD 3870 1GB.
Back in November of 2007 AMD released the Radeon HD 3800-series of graphics cards to a mostly positive reaction. The HD 3870 was the “high end” card meant to compete with NVIDIA’s 8800 GT card while the HD 3850 was aimed at the [...]

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