Radeon 3850 256MB GDDR3 Pcie Dvi

Comment: The VisionTek HD 3850 is a great card for the money. It runs most of the newer games with a decent framerate. I bought it mainly for Oblivion, which looks great and runs nicely at 35-40 fps, sometimes higher. So far I have also played Half Life and Portal and they look great. Another nice feature of this card is that it is DirectX 10.1 for all of your future gaming goodness. I am currently running it on Window XP.

The power supply requirements for this card are for a 400 watt power supply. The card runs very cool and quiet. My particular package did not have a crossfire bridge connnector for running 2 cards, although I did have one that came with my mother board. It is important to note that if you plan on running this in CrossFireX, you will need a 550 watt power supply.

My particular 3850 came from Buy.com through Amazon and the product was shipped and arrived very quickly. Overall great shopping experience.

Comment: I purchased 2 of these to run in crossfire mode & neither has the crossfire connector included. There was only a game in one box & not the other. I'm only able to use one card since I don't have a connector. The card works fine although I'm receiving an ATI recovery error that I've never experianced before on any ATI product.

Comment: I replaced a geforce 8600GT by this one, and it made a huge difference. Now even Crysis is playable at 1440*900 if you tweak the settings a bit, the 8600 couldn't dream of doing that. Lifetime warranty, balanced performance, HD video, low power use, low noise.. There's a lot to like about this card. The only reason preventing me from awarding it 5 stars is that it didn't come with a PCIe power adapter, in places like Ecuador they're nearly impossible to get which meant that I had to wait for a while before I could actually use it.

Comment: Runs cool, and silent, and is able to play any game out there, though "Crysis" will require you to back off the visual settings, it's still gorgeous at medium and very playable.

It does not include a molex 4 pin to pcie 6 pin power cable converter, if you don't have one, or your power supply does not have a pcie 6 pin power connection, you'll need to purchase one.

The good news is it draws very little power, My old generic 250 watt power supply has no trouble driving it, though a better 500 watt unit is in my plans. Nvidea's furnaces could never get away with this.

I've been waiting for supply to catch up with demand, forcing a price drop to at least msrp, but there are just too many good games out there, I couldn't wait any longer.

Of all the video cards out there, nothing tops this in the bang for buck equation.