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MAXSUN unveils non-refrence HD 3850 & HD 3870

November 29th, 2007 by Jeff Hardware

Because of HD 3850 and HD 3870 is too hot, now almost every non-reference version throw stock cooler away and use a self-design heatsink. Now MAXSUN unveils their HD 3850 and HD 3870. Don’t konw they will sell oversea but two card looks cool.

MAXSUN’s HD 3870 did not OCed, but they change the cooler as well as the memory. They said HD 3870 is using samsung’s 0.9ns 512M/GDDR4, and HD 3850 using a 0.8ns 512M/DDR3.

Sintering cooper powder heatpipe, it is a pity that we got no chance to cut and have a peak inside.

Samsung’s 0.9ns 512M/GDDR4

4 Responses to “MAXSUN unveils non-refrence HD 3850 & HD 3870”

  1. philip Says:
    November 29th, 2007 at 12:27 pm

    I dont like this pcb design…

  2. Zeka Says:
    December 11th, 2007 at 7:33 pm

    @philip

    I think all HD3850 pcb are the same. You probably mean you don’t like the cooling solution?

    Aesthetics are rather irrelevant for vga cards, imho. If it can clock well and stay cool, I’m all for it. And those samsung chips (0,8 ns) look promising.

  3. philip Says:
    December 11th, 2007 at 7:37 pm

    Not really,this card is non-reference design,you can click to this article to see another HD3850 use DDR4.
    http://en.expreview.com/?p=100

  4. Zeka Says:
    December 11th, 2007 at 7:47 pm

    Ok I see now. But If the card works as intended, it’s ok by me.

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