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Force3D HD 3850 512MB DDR3 Dual DVI HDTV Out PCI-E Graphics Card
- £54.52ex vat
- £64.07inc vat
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Tuesday, 25th November.
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- manufacturer #: A6703
- quickfind code: 148212
- 22 in stock for next day delivery.
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Amazing Value- Picture Quality
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Windows XPI can play any game with smooth frame rates. Gameplay is super with this graphics card. I dont think that an average gamer needs a better card.
Excellent card
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Windows VistaFirst off, mine came with a different cooler to the one in the picture, it was just a big black heatsink with a fan in the middle of it, and it's loud....real loud. But a zalman cooler sorted that problem out. For the price, it's a great card, haven't tried running anything too demanding other than eve online but thats not too demanding. but it runs great, although about the same as my old card so kinda pointless I guess. Anyhoo, if you're a gamer and don't wanna spend 100-200+ quid on a graphics card, can't go far wrong with this one.
Decent card for bot too much cash
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Windows XPThis a single bay PCI-E graphics card but it is a long card.
In terms of performance this is as good a card as I think you can get for around 60 quid. Unless you are playing on a 22" monitor with high detail.
It's pretty silent. I've noticed no increase in noise since upgrading from my last card, which was heatsinks only.
The drivers take quite a long time to install. I think it was about 20 minutes worth, almost as long as Windows took.
Just a brief overview
I've played Bioshock and Crysis (the latter at 30+fps on 1360x768 medium settings) and the machine was just running normally.
A word of warning to potential buyers who have Inspiron 530's, it is a fairly largish card. If you have a 2nd SATA HDD you won't be able to keep it in the HDD1 bay (as I had before I installed the card)
For 2 reasons, the Sata Power cable attached to your main HDD had one other Sata power cable on it's end (which was powering my 2nd hdd) and that must be used in conjunction with the included 6 Pin PCI-E adapter to fix to the end of the card (You will need a Sata -> Molex adapter already, I have one but they are really rare to find. Better to get a Sata -> PCI-E adapter and make the included molex adapter redundant). And secondly you may find the 2nd HDD will just be too close to your 3850 for comfort, making it extremely difficult to attach all the necessary connections to both your card and your HDD.
I had to move my 2nd HDD to where the 2nd CD/DVD drive would be, because there was a spare Sata power cable by there and also as mentioned before less cramped up there.
The innards of the 530 are quite space conservative and so it is perfectly doable, just be conscious of where all the Sata data and power cables are going before and after you've installed the card.
Of note also, even with a new PSU - installing the GFX card won't be anymore straight forward, as mentioned before due to the space constraints. So in the end what worried me didn't really come to fruition, but another problem arose - space within the case!
I'm running mine on a stock 300W dell PSU.
Doesn't come with a vga->dvi adapter though.
Included are:
*Crossfire bridge
*composite video cable
*progressive video adapter
*installation driver CD & manual
*molex->PCI-E 6 Pin adapter
