Radeon HD 3850 AGP 512 Mo

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For those who have a quite old motherboard without any PCI-Express port, you should absolutely try the following :
"Radeon HD 3850 AGP 512 Mo"

Sapphire and Powercolor editions are available (about $130.00)



Here you can find RV670 GPU full specifications : http://ati.amd.com/products/Radeonhd3800/specs.html

7 games tested at 1280x1024 resolution with full antialiasing, full anisotropic filtering, bloom effect, pixel shaders enabled...
In short, everything at max !!

And you know what, it was great with high framerate !

• Oblivion
• Tomb Raider Legend
• Deux Ex 2 - Invisible War
• Titan Quest
• S.t.a.l.k.e.r. - Shadow Of Chernobyl
• The Godfather
• Doom 3
  

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Be sure to use Catalyst 8.9 : http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

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After 6 weeks, it's still great ! No crashes ! No black screens ! No VPU recover ! And no overheating !!!

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After other weeks, I noticed a little problem with the fan.
Radeon HD fan is able to start or stop automatically if GPU needs to be "cooled" or not.
Two times, the fan didn't start and GPU overheated a bit.

Only way to solve the problem was to restart computer ...