Now that I won the bid is it any good?

[Uriah]

A little buyer's remorse. I won the bid for this on Ebay. I suspect it will do just fine for OFF3. Maybe even ROF when it comes out. Tell me what you think.

Radeon HD 3650 512MB PCI-E

378 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
* PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
* 128-bit DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4 memory interface
* Ring Bus Memory Controller
o Fully distributed design with 256-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes
* MicrosoftDirectX10.1 support
o Shader Model 4.1
o 32-bit floating point texture filtering
o Indexed cube map arrays
o Independent blend modes per render target
o Pixel coverage sample masking
o Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders
o Gather4 texture fetching
* Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
o 120 stream processing units
+ Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
+ Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
+ Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
o 128-bit floating point precision for all operations
o Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
o Shader instruction and constant caches
o Up to 40 texture fetches per clock cycle
o Up to 128 textures per pixel
o Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
o DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
o High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
o Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
o Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
o Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear
o Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
o Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
o 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support
o Physics processing support
* Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
o High performance vertex cache
o Programmable tessellation unit
o Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
o Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
* Anti-aliasing features
o Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel)
o Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
o Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
o Temporal anti-aliasing
o Gamma correct
o Super AA (ATI CrossFireX™ configurations only)
o All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
* Texture filtering features
o 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
o 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
o Bicubic filtering
o sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
o Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
o Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
o Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support
* OpenGL 2.0 support
* ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform
o Dedicated unified video decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC and VC-1 video formats
+ High definition (HD) playback of both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats
o Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX video decode acceleration
+ Motion compensation and IDCT
o ATI Avivo Video Post Processor
+ Color space conversion
+ Chroma subsampling format conversion
+ Horizontal and vertical scaling
+ Gamma correction
+ Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
+ De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
+ Detail enhancement
+ Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
+ Bad edit correction
o Two independent display controllers
+ Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display
+ Full 30-bit display processing
+ Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion
+ Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays
+ High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs
+ Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
+ Fast, glitch-free mode switching
+ Hardware cursor
o Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs
+ Each supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)2
+ Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content3
o Two integrated DisplayPort™ outputs
+ Supports 24- and 30-bit displays at all resolutions up to 2560x16001
+ 1, 2, or 4 lanes per output, with data rate up to 2.7 Gbps per lane
o Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
+ Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x15362
o HDMI output support
+ Supports all display resolutions up to 1920x10802
+ Integrated HD audio controller with up to 2 channel 48 kHz stereo or multi-channel (5.1) AC3 enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution
o Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder
+ Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)
+ Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions
+ Underscan and overscan compensation
o MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding
o Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
o VGA mode support on all display outputs
* ATI PowerPlay™
o Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings
o Performance on Demand
+ Constantly monitors GPU activity, dynamically adjusting clocks and voltage based on user scenario
+ Clock and memory speed throttling
+ Voltage switching
+ Dynamic clock gating
o Central thermal management – on-chip sensor monitors GPU temperature and triggers thermal actions as required
* ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology
o Scale up rendering performance and image quality with two GPUs
o Integrated compositing engine
o High performance bridge interconnect1

 

[arjdsm]

oh wow so much info:isadizzy:
here, take a look at this:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card,2118-7.html

for best perfomance and great looking picture you don't want to go lower then top 2 lines on that chart. On lower settings your card should be fine.

 

[gimpyguy]

Do you mean this puppy
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3855385&CatId=3670

Hope you got a good deal on the price, because the vast majority on Ebay Video cards are made in china knock offs

Nothing wrong with them, ALL Video Cards are made in china Today

But if you ever look for service .. Forget it

Most times the manufacturer puts his name on it, like . . Sapphfire Radeon, ATI radeon, BFG radeon, XFX radeon to name but a few.

But plain old Radeon . . sounds like a china knock-off

As to is it any good . . what does it matter . . it's your's now :ernae:

 

[Uriah]

Thanks arjdsn. Choices on where to spend what money I have I decided it was good enough. Looks like maybe I payed about the right price of $62 (included shipping and handling). Maybe next year I can get a much better card.

 

[gimpyguy]

The Important part is that 512MB of video memory.:ernae:

 

[SPUD VII]

I am waiting for....

1gb DDr3 memory, combined with PCIE v2.0 data transfer rates.
Your card should cut it no probs.
I have a card which is practically the same spec as what you propose.
It kicks butt, but wont do for my next PC.
1gb cards are out but pricey at the mo.

Critical thing is that the rest of your PC is up to it.

Read: Socket 775,(or i7) Core2Duo,(or quad) DDR3/4 ram, PCIE v2.0 on motherboard
Power supply video card power feed. Vista for above 3.5?gb memory.
Hard drive with 32mb cache and FAST seek/read/write times.

Keep asking questions and research, research, research. I "bone up" on
tech for six months before I build and I build 5 pc's a year for clan
members. Which adds up to constant studying & research> non stop.
Great fun, very satisfying.
CheerZ!

 

[ovs]

Wow.. that's a lot of info.. I thought you bought the Space Shuttle. I didn't realize it was a graphics card till I saw you paid $62 for it. LOL!

It should be fine. OFF P3 runs fine on my 6600GT, albeit toned down a lot, but not so much that you can't appreciate the beauty of the game.

OvS

 

[redhammer]

Well I dont want to seem important or degrade anything.

But like SPUD VII says, amount of memory doesnt mean its good memory, certain types of DDR2 memory can be better than certain types of DDR3 memory, and therefor difference in performance, etc etc. And theres clock speeds, technology, what kind of cooling, how the cooling performs (Or you might look at black screens when starting games, BSOD`s, etc etc.) and transfer rates versus the technology in the card, a 1.5 gb ram graphics card with pci 1.0 rates could be beaten utterly and completely with a 768 mb with PCI 2.0 rates, etc etc, many factors combined are usually making up the bottlenecks of most lower end cards with same type names as the better flagship cards, bottlenecks which are necessary in order to label the card a HD 3650, I had a GeForce 7800GT with cut pci lines, turns out it was actually a GTX, degraded to a GT by laser cutting some of the PCI lines. If the lines werent cut, I`d have a GTX for 3 times less the price of a GTX by a simple matter of overclocking. But all of this only serves as an example to the many factors that needs to be considered in order to label your card a good or bad one, that card you got will probably perform up to what it promises, word is the HD 3650 is among if not the best cheaper ATI card out there, so you will probably (Or almost guaranteed.) get extremely good performance out of it compared to what you paid! So in a more simple way, I`d say you shouldnt worry, but be more reasearchive (If thats even a word.. ) The next time you go for a card!

RH