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Motherboard(s): GIGABYTE X48-DQ6 (Supplied by GIGABYTE) Processor(s): Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 3GHz (333MHz x 9)Ĭooling: Corsair Nautilus500 (Supplied by Corsair) with Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound (Supplied by Arctic Cooling) Just above the model is a sticker that makes note of this card being an OC Edition model.Īs you can see above, while the same 2250MHz DDR memory speed is seen, the core gets a bump up to 800MHz. The right of the card clearly shows the brand while the bottom shows the model. MSI have a very nice package at the moment everything is very clear and gives us a good idea of what we're getting. Since we haven't looked at the card before, we may as well kill two birds with one stone and check out the whole setup beginning with the package. It's really going to come down to how well the HD 3870 is able to make use of the increased clock speeds that MSI have offered. It did get us thinking though with an MSI HD 3870 OC sitting around doing nothing, it was time to see what would happen when we put overclocked part up against overclocked part. What we found was that the HD 3870 stock clocked card faired quite well against the 9600GT which came with an increased core and memory clock. It's not dying off anytime soon thanks to the aggressive pricing that has been implemented recently.
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After looking at the new 9600GT just the other day, it became clear to us that the HD 3870 really does still have some life in it.