nope....eye candy means High quality verses performance
where one would turn down their graphics settings to get better FPS for performance
eye candy is , High Res Textures, shadows enabled, animated water, etc....( all which will take a bite out of your FPS )
and yes, if a person has the system ( CPU, System Memory, clean OS, etc ) then they can run Higher graphics settings with the ATI HD3870 video card...
hope this helps
TC