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Asus HD 3850 X2 review

A twin graphics solution, but sometimes two heads aren't better than one

Our Score 3.5

Last reviewed: 2008-07-10July 10th 2008

Price at launch £200.00
Features Dual HD3850 GPU Solution / HDMI Output via DVI / HDCP Support / 512 bit memory interface /
Colour Black/Red
Interface PCI Express
Software Provided ASUS Utilities & Driver
API Support New DirectX 10
Graphics Core Clockspeed 668
Graphics Memory (Mb) 1000
Graphics Memory Speed (GHz) 1.65
Graphics Memory Type GDDR3
Max Supported Resolution 2560 x 1600
RAMDACs 400
GPU ATI
DVI Ports 2

Product Summary

Radeon HD 3850 X2

Asus HD 3850 X2

Price at launch

£200.00

For

>

Decent performance

>

1GB memory

Against

>

Underperforms against competition

>

Chunky

>

Steep price

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