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I'd go with the HIS. It's a bit bigger than the WF3X, so need to make sure it fits.
I like the exhaust cooling design, and runs very cool and quiet.
There's a review comparing the sound of various HD7950 with video recordings, the DirectCU II and PowerColor PCS were the quietest, followed by the IceQ.
I have the WF3X, it needs some fan profiling (with the Gigabyte software), otherwise it can get quite noisy (fan over 60%, noticeably noisy, but really never required more than 50-60% even at full tilt).
EDIT : Linky.
What about performance wise m8? On games such as bf3 on ultra settings?
The Gigabyte is running 50Mhz higher clock rate, thats about 2 FPS in BF3 on Ultra.
So out of the box the Gigabyte is perhaps a little faster, but clock for clock they are identical as they are both identical AMD 7950 GPU chips.
actually you will find that the iceq boost clock is 25mhz higher as standard
well my first choice was the iceq boost, think i might stick with that then
Gigabyte all the way IMO.
HIS warranty is dire, Gigabyte is UK based.
Not much more to be said.
good choice
check some youtube vids, review websites to get the size, i forgot how long it is
yea i checked on that, It's 295mm very long lol.. I see you have one! After having hands on then would u say gameplay is good m8? (i.e smooth gameplay) ?
yes gameplay is smoooooooooth, very nice card mate, nice temps aswel around 60c playing cs go all maxed out
Gigabyte all the way IMO.
HIS warranty is dire, Gigabyte is UK based.
Not much more to be said.