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Review: AMD Radeon HD 3870: the new midrange DX10 king?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 15 November 2007, 05:00

Tags: HIS Radeon HD 3870, AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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MSI packaging and bundle





A big box of goodies that will be making its way on to Thanksgiving and Christmas lists, no doubt.







Items Colin McRae's DIRT (full game) DVD
Lord Of The Rings Online: Shadows Of Angmar (trail) DVD
English quick-user's guide
Multi-language quick-user's guide
DVI-to-VGA dongle
Six-pin PCIe-to-Molex adapter
S-video-to-S-video cable
HDTV (component) + S-video-out cable


MSI sent us an early retail sample that was bereft of a driver CD. The rest of the bundle is typical MSI, that is, it offers more than the smaller AICs but doesn't quite reach the luxurious heights of, say, ASUS bundles.

Warranty

The NX8800GTS comes with a two-year warranty but this begins on the date of sale of the card from MSI to the distributor when, in our view, it should begin on the date of the customer's purchase instead. The warranty is transferable between users and is handled by the reseller the card was purchased from.

However, MSI will deal with customers who are unable or unwilling to return the item to the place of purchase. For direct returns, MSI states a replacement time for faulty items of seven-to-28 days, with an average of 14 days and replacement items of the same or higher specification.