"short" ATI 3870 videocard

[Beladi Nasrallah]

The reference design PCB for nVidia 8800GT is 229 mm, or 9" long.

The non-reference PCB from Gigabyte is shorter. From my measurements
of the card from the available pictures (e.g.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125081),
its length is 210 mm +-5 mm.

The ATI 3850/70 cards are long, too. They are of the same length as
the reference 8800GT cards. However, here is the very short non-
reference design 3850 card (something like 190 mm long),

http://en.expreview.com/?p=100   (Unika)
http://en.expreview.com/?p=63     (MAXSUN)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814140086 (Apollo)

Actually, all of these ATI cards are using the PCB developed by the
Taiwanese company Triplex. It also produces the "short" 3850 and 3870,
as was announced on 2 January 2008, http://www.triplex.com.tw/english/products/ati/hd3870.htm

I wonder where I could get this card (short 3870, that is) ? Will it
be exported to North America/Australia/Western Europe ??? When ??

 

[M. Ziegler]

Actually, all of these ATI cards are using the PCB developed by the
Taiwanese company Triplex. It also produces the "short" 3850 and 3870,
as was announced on 2 January 2008, http://www.triplex.com.tw/english/products/ati/hd3870.htm

I wonder where I could get this card (short 3870, that is) ? Will it
be exported to North America/Australia/Western Europe ??? When ??

Im looking for a short 3850 with 512MB too. It should replace my old GF
7950, which is 20cm long. A longer card would not fit in my Arctic
Cooling T1 case. The 3850 from Powercolor is shorter, but its fan is
loud and doesnt power down.


Michael

 

[flightlessvacuum]

Im looking for a short 3850 with 512MB too. It should replace my old GF
7950, which is 20cm long. A longer card would not fit in my Arctic
Cooling T1 case. The 3850 from Powercolor is shorter, but its fan is
loud and doesnt power down.

Should be a good replacement, even my 3850 256mb outperforms the 7950
gx2 .

 

[Beladi Nasrallah]

Actually, all of these ATI cards are using the PCB developed by the
Taiwanese company Triplex. It also produces the "short" 3850 and 3870,
as was announced on 2 January 2008,http://www.triplex.com.tw/english/products/ati/hd3870.htm

I wonder where I could get this card (short 3870, that is) ? Will it
be exported to North America/Australia/Western Europe ??? When ??-

What the **** ???? I have found more of the ATI 3870/50 cards with non-
reference PCB design that a _short_ (I need a short card for my
computer case). The manufacturers are Unika, Colorful, Maxsun and
Apollo. They are actually all based on the same PCB developed by
Triplex. (All the said companies are either Taiwanese or Chinese.)

I am sifting through the on-line shops in the western world, I went to
our local computer parts shop, I checked eBay -- such cards are not
available. It looks like none of them brought into the West. And there
are no online Chinese shops where I could buy those cards (maybe there
are some, but I do not understand Chinese those websites are written
in.)

I am disappointed and disheartened. Is this called capitalism ? Why
there are no said cards in my country or anywhere esle where I could
get it ? I am desperate. I already started swearing.