Overclockers Club talks about building a high end HTPC featuring the Thermaltake Media Lab. Hardware Secrets has a reference table that lists all Phenom models. techPowerUp gets to play with the new Sapphire HD 3870.

Sapphire's new HD 3870 card is based on AMD's RV670 GPU which is made in a 55 nm process with 666 million transitors and support for DirectX 10.1 and PCI-Express 2.0. This card that is sold for around $249 is intended to be AMD's new offering for an upper midrange card - but can it beat the GeForce 8800 GT?