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The video card we will be looking at today -- the Visiontek Radeon HD 3870 X2 Over-Clocked Edition -- represents the pinnacle of ATI's HD 3000 series of video cards.

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.

Recently we reviewed the Asus EAH3850X2, and it tured out to be a real winner. It will be interesting to see how the Visiontek HD 3870 X2 OC stacks up to the HD3850X2, and a pair of overclocking Asus HD 3870 T.O.P's running in a CrossFire setup. Will the Visiontek overclock be enough to push it over the top? Today we will see if this video card can claim to be one -- if not the -- fastest ATI video card currently out.

Let's see how how the Visiontek HD3870X2 stacks up .