It seems like only a short time ago that the HD 3870 came out, and battled against NVIDIA's 8800 GT for dominance of the gaming card market. But now the entire HD 3000 line-up has been filled out. The line-up starts with the HD 3450 at low-end, takes a stop at the mid-range with HD 3650, hits high-speed at the HD 3870, and plateaus on the top with the the HD3870X2. While the HD 4000 series will certainly come eventually, right now, the HD3870X2 is one of the fastest video cards you can find. The only single-card solution that has a fighting chance of out-maneuvering the HD3870X2 would be NVIDIA's dual-GPU behemoth, the 9800GX2. And when the HD3870X2 is overclocked -- as today's VisionTek card is -- we can certainly expect to see some stratosphere-level performance. <And maybe F-18 at take off noise also?>



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