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4870 - is there a "better" make?

miker1

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Looking at the available 4870's, there is a difference range of £20.

With the exception of the pre-overclocked Powercolor, they are all reference designs.

So, is there a "better" manufacturer? I havn't had an ATI card in years, so I have no idea of who is good/ not so good.

Cheers

Mike
 
miker1 said:
So, by having a different cooler they ARE different. Is there anyone with a quieter cooler?
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Yes. I thought you were mainly asking if there is a difference on quality of the GPU chip itself - i.e. if one manufacturer gets the better chips.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail

^ That Powercolor is pre-overclocked a bit and has a silent cooler. The stock one is OK but I swapped mine out for a AC S1 cooler which is great.
 
miker1 said:
Looking at the available 4870's, there is a difference range of £20.

With the exception of the pre-overclocked Powercolor, they are all reference designs.

So, is there a "better" manufacturer? I havn't had an ATI card in years, so I have no idea of who is good/ not so good.

Cheers

Mike
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Some brands have terrible support, others have good support and honour their warraties and RMAs
 
I went for gigabyte this time just seems a more solid brand out of all the cheapest ones.
To be honest aren't everyone apart from eVGA and BFG (who don't do ATI) extremely dodgy though ?
 
C64 said:
I went for gigabyte this time just seems a more solid brand out of all the cheapest ones.
To be honest aren't everyone apart from eVGA and BFG (who don't do ATI) extremely dodgy though ?
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Um eVGA and BFG don't CURRENTLY do any ATI - but they will be soon by the looks of things :D or was it XFX instead of BFG - anyway they've thrown nvidia the towel and told them they won't be exclusively nvidia any more :D

Also don't know what you guys have found with powercolor in person but their website lists are no warranty with them at all. So you get 1 yr with the reseller and thats it.....

To me that seems pants - but I might be wrong or you might be happy with it.
 
well warranty worries me too, did a thread on it infact...

way i see it if the likes of power cooler give a 1 year warranty they have no faith in what there selling or are out for a quick hassle free sale...hence why if igo for a 4870 ill get the asus one with 3 year warranty, for a lil extra its worth it imo, and u can probably assume it hasnt been put together by trained lemmings.
 
Falcor said:
well warranty worries me too, did a thread on it infact...

way i see it if the likes of power cooler give a 1 year warranty they have no faith in what there selling or are out for a quick hassle free sale...hence why if igo for a 4870 ill get the asus one with 3 year warranty, for a lil extra its worth it imo, and u can probably assume it hasnt been put together by trained lemmings.
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If its around £130ish it wont kill it for me - should be getting a iceq 4850, as for the £300 cards i'd definitely be after at least 2 years. Having said that of course i'd like more on the 4850 i'm about to get as I will b keeping it over the year mark....
 
Asus have a better bios with "proper" fan control and allows overclocking past the normal limits in CCC.

Diamond are pre-overclocked and now available with a bios which supplies more voltage to the card enabling even higher overclocks.

Everybody else are just reference design and bios so only warranty varies.
 
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