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Ordering 7950 Today?

Jhaemes

Jhaemes

Jhaemes

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Planning to order a 7950 today, there's the MSI at £230 and the HIS IceQ at £230.

Ordinarily it'd be an easy decision (MSI), but the thread about the bad batch has me worried. Since I'm between houses (can move in in four days, then I can set up my desktop) I wouldn't be able to test the 7950 until then. Plus the hassle of returning it, if it turned out to be one of the bad ones.

It'll be going in an Antec P183 case, which has the three layer quietening tech which should cancel out a bit of noise.
 
+1 for the HIS I got one and it's a fantastic card, it is quite big and i'm not familiar with the internal dimensions of the Antec so double check it'll fit.
 
Card length shouldn't be a problem since I can move my hard drive cage from the upper part to the lower one, allowing it to support up to 15.5 inches of graphics card.
 
As above - you'll just end up wasting time if you do get a faulty one.

A working MSI Twin Frozr would be my preference but there seems to be an abnormally high chance of getting one which runs hot.

You can take the cooler off and re-apply the TIM but there's no guarantee that it will bring the temperatures into line.
 
Would it be worth getting the Gigabyte at £240 over the HIS IceQ, now it's gone back up to £240?

Noise, temps and overclocking are my top priorities.
 
HIS still, depends if you want better cooling or a higher core clock.
 
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Jhaemes said:
Would it be worth getting the Gigabyte at £240 over the HIS IceQ, now it's gone back up to £240?

Noise, temps and overclocking are my top priorities.
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Well all three of those are linked... there isn't a card that wins on all fronts lol.

Noise = HIS IceQ
Temps = Gigabyte WF/Working MSI TFIII
Overclocking = Working MSI TFIII

The HIS IceQ is still extremely cool just not quite as cool as a Gigabyte WF/working MSI TFIII.
 
Went ahead and ordered the HIS IceQ, coming from a GTX 550Ti.

Probably won't be able to do much with it until Friday though, poor desktop packed away xD
 
Remember MSI has a 3 yr warranty as opposed to HIS 2 year, which is the main reason I switched my order to MSI from HIS at the last minute.
 
Who keeps a GPU for 3 years. They all have as long as the sale of goods act determine anyway which would be longer than 3 years...
 
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MOOGLEYS said:
Who keeps a GPU for 3 years. They all have as long as the sale of goods act determine anyway which would be longer than 3 years...
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What the hell are you on about? Plenty of people keep GPU's for longer than 2 years. Besides, if you did want to upgrade after 2 years your card would have 1 year remaining on the warranty increasing its resale value. It's a win win situation :rolleyes:
 
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