The Card

Diamond's HD 3650 has a simple design compared to the complexity of today's high-end cards. The cooler is rather small and covers only four of the eight memory chips. As expected the card has a single slot design because the heat output of ATI's RV635 GPU is really low.
Even though a physical CrossFire connector is not present, this card supports CrossFire via the PCI-Express bus which is fully adequate given the performance of the GPU. You can also run three or four of these cards in CrossFireX, even on NVIDIA chipsets using Diamond's exclusive xDNA technology.


The card has one analog VGA, one DVI and one HDMI port. This is a great combination covering all possible aspects of this card's use. In case you need a second analog VGA port you can use the included DVI adapter. The HDMI port supports HDMI+HDCP+Audio, which allows easy setup of a media PC.


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