3870? Not really

[-iceblade^]

just a little annoyance... My 3870 pitches up as a 3800 series card in Vista 32... is there any way to make it show up as a 3870? mildly irritating when i see that on the system tab... Got Catalyst 8.2 installed...

i know on the ATI site it lists HD3800 series as the top step for their cards in Vista 32-bit when downloading the drivers, could that be the problem?

 

[MeatLoaf]

Is there a sticker on the back of the card?

What clock speeds does GPU-Z report?

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Thats how some driver sets report them, as they are part of the 3800 series.

 

[-iceblade^]

ehm, sticker says...

HD3870 512MB PCI Express 2.0
Dual DVI/TVO
X-Turbo III Dual Slot Fansink
228.59*111.51mm PCB

and it's a Gecube HD3870 X-Turbo III O.C. Edition - stock clocks are 810/1125MHZ, reported as such in GPU-Z...

 

[MeatLoaf]

That looks as if uts all ok then

 

[Herojuana]

My Gigabyte 3870 came today and looks just like the one they have for the 3850.

What worriest me more is that Catalyst is saying that it is GDDR3 and not 4. It already looks like a 3850 and not the one I bought.

WTFFFFFF

 

[PeteLucky7]

My Gigabyte 3870 came today and looks just like the one they have for the 3850.

What worriest me more is that Catalyst is saying that it is GDDR3 and not 4. It already looks like a 3850 and not the one I bought.

WTFFFFFF

I know gigabyte made a ddr3 and a ddr4 version of the 3870xt

ddr3: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/VGA/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2735

ddr4: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/VGA/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2709

Hope that helps

 

[Vince]

They did indeed I have the DDR3 one and its a pretty good card