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Just Got My 3870X2
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Soldato
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Dont forget some people class silent and quite different to other people, for some people a hair dryer may well be quiet whilst for others.. its a hair dryer
I think it all depends on the ambient noise in your case. If you have a case full of fans it will be pretty much silent against the background. If your watercooled like me it will stand out like a soar thumb. That said its not a harsh noise unlike some cards.
Aye the only other fan in my case is a Sharkoon 120mm and it's very quiet.
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So what do you think of it?
I've not had chance to game with it, going to see how it handles Oblivion tonight.
My only complaint so far is the noise. It seems to love 3D Mark, completely trounces my overclocked 8800GT even at stock with the CPU clocked lower.
Easy tiger. I was under the impression that the X2 had the same an unit to the 2900 therefore I can understand why people would say it's loud as the 2900 was annoyingly loud but if it is as kylew says then I apologise
Lol sorry, didn't mean to come across aggressively
It's just that people come here for advice and I've seen two posts on the X2 in this forum, one of which described it as being louder than a train and the other a leaf blower. Both were from people who do not even have the card and both are very wrong.
The new design with smaller PCI-e 2.0 bridge?
Bit of a wide load aint it?
dual slot same as the stock X2...
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PCB is shorter than the old one isn't it?
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Easy tiger. I was under the impression that the X2 had the same an unit to the 2900 therefore I can understand why people would say it's loud as the 2900 was annoyingly loud but if it is as kylew says then I apologise
You shouldn't be "under the impression" though, as you had an X2 (so you said remember
), so you should definately know if the cooler was the same as the one on your 2900, and if it was as loud.
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bought an X2... tbh had to r.m.a this an appauling amount of times (4 in total, no joke). However, I've FINALLY managed to get a stable rig. roughly 500+ fps in source on aim maps. 300+ on Dust 2 with HDR lighting, full settings at 1024 res. Crysis, 1023 res. and all very high, perfectly playable, of course I want a few more fps here and there but who doesn't. When it works it's truly a dream card, I can certainly say I prefer this over my eVGA ultra I had. And I used to be an Nvidia fanboy until I had this baby.
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Don't know what Loadsa been smoking but I want some.
I must have been smoking whatever you were when you dream't you had an X2, but then sent it back.
I must have been smoking whatever you were when you dream't you had an X2, but then sent it back.
I must have been smoking whatever you were when you dream't you had an X2, but then sent it back.
What a reply .I must have been smoking whatever you were when you dream't you had an X2, but then sent it back.
Lost me completely mate, I've never had an X2