I am plaing to buy HD 3870 video card for my PC but there are many versions out there which is better ?

i am ready to spend around £150 for the card ....



and this card is PCIe2 but my mobo is PCIe1.1 dose that mean card will work slower in my mobo ....or full speed|||The 3870 is a decent card, but lacks on a non 2.0 board. First off if you motherboard is a Crossfire board go I'd say go Sapphire, from what I hear it is one of the best. If you an Nvidia board go with either the 8800GT or GTS *512*.



Also note, the R700 (HD 4000) series will be released soon with the R700 motherboards by ATI.|||dude forget the radeon 3870 for like 20 bucks more u can get a nvidia geforce 8800gt and it'll smoke it in every game every resolution.... you'll be happier trust me :) ati isn't the way to go this time around and unless Ur a fan-boy and worship ati (which is now AMD) i suggest checking out nvidia instead but don't get me wrong the 3870 is a good card but for 250 bucks Ur better off spending 180 instead for the 3850 which is only10-15% slower then the 3870 but if ur gonna spend 250 bucks on a card like the 3870 get the 8800gts it runs circles around the 3780 alsou wont notice anythign between 1.1 and 2.0 hell the cards now days cant even come close to taking up the bandwidth pcie 1.1 provides let alone pcie 2.0 so dont worry u wont notice a dif between 2.0 and 1.1 anytime soon but then again it was that way with agp to...i guess the people at intel that invented pcie got bored and desided to update it :P lol



review site to prove it:

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1222/5/…|||You can look at Sapphire, Asus, HIS, Diamond, etc. It depends on the company that you are conforable with. I have had no problems with Sapphire or Diamond.



As for the 1.1 or 2.0, 2.0 had just came out. It means not much at this time. A PCIe 1.1 will have no problem.



As for the answer about nVidia, the card is better but more expensive then the 3870, plus all screen shots that I have seen shows the 3870 is cleaner.