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** CRAZY ASS ATI HD 6870 PRICE - £99.99 +VAT (£119.99 Inc. VAT)! ** (PRE-ORDER ONLY PRICE!)

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Hi there


Now this is a truly awsome deal, were offering this ATI HD 6870 1GB graphics card at just £99.99 +VAT (£119.99 Inc. VAT). Remember this is 5850 beating performance, scales amazingly well in Crossfire at a truly industry leading price.

Stock is due with ourselves Monday September 5th and we only have 500 units en-route and were predicting at this price we could even quite possibly sell out as for this level of performance which is marginally faster than GTX 460 for less money with great Crossfire potential performance.



OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **PRE-ORDER ONLY PRICE** @ £119.99 inc VAT

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- Core Clock: 900MHz
- Memory: 1024MB GDDR5
- Memory Clock: 4200MHz (Effective)
- Memory Bandwidth: 135.6GB/s
- Processing Cores: 1120
- Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.1
- Display Connectors: 2 Dual-Link DVI-I, 1 HDMI & 2x Mini-DisplayPort
- HDCP Capable
- DirectX 11 Support
- OpenGL 3.2 Support
- ATI CrossFire Ready
- ATI Eyefinity Technology
- ATI Avivo HD
- ATI Stream Technology
- ATI HD3D Technology
- Warranty: 2 Years


Was [£131.99] Inc. VAT

Only £119.99 inc VAT.

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Marine-RX179 said:
Looking at that reasonbly sized fan on the relatively small VTX 6870...really can't help but to think the tiny blower fan on the reference 6990 is a total joke...
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I don't know why they continue with these quite frankly 'meh' coolers. They're not the best at cooling and they're usually louder than their non-reference counterparts. They should spend more time and money creating a better cooler for their cards, both Nvidia and AMD.
 
Reference coolers are made to be suitable for all case tyoes. Many cases (especially SFF) have poor airflow and require a heatsink design which expels the air out of the case. Very few non-reference coolers do this, with the vast majority dumping all of their hot air inside the case. Unless the case has sufficient cooling the dumped hot air gets recycled, getting hotter and hotter.

Most reference cards strike a reasonable balance between cooling and noise. Personally, this VTX card would be utter junk in my Sugo case, and the reference card would easily outperform it.

Also, the reference 6870 is not a noisy card by any stretch, so why change it?
 
555BUK said:
Reference coolers are made to be suitable for all case tyoes. Many cases (especially SFF) have poor airflow and require a heatsink design which expels the air out of the case. Very few non-reference coolers do this, with the vast majority dumping all of their hot air inside the case. Unless the case has sufficient cooling the dumped hot air gets recycled, getting hotter and hotter.

Most reference cards strike a reasonable balance between cooling and noise. Personally, this VTX card would be utter junk in my Sugo case, and the reference card would easily outperform it.

Also, the reference 6870 is not a noisy card by any stretch, so why change it?
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Personally I don't there's much issue regarding the heatsink and cooler layout...but the issue is more to do with their fan choice. Not only is the fan are small, but the "small-fins" fan simply ain't effective at shifting air, thus need to speed at a much higher speed, which lead to higher noise level. If they would not cut corner, and willing to make the fan like the Akasa AK-VC03-BLUV Vortexx NEO graphic cooler, it will shifting much more air, much quieter and lower the temp much more effectively. Bottomline is reference cooler (the fan to be precise) for the 6990 is a joke for a £500 card.

But anyway, I guess we shouldn't derail this thread too much. I do apologise for going off topic.
 
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Basically really struggling to decide between this 6870 or a 470 :-(

The 470 is slightly more expensive, louder, hotter, takes more power, but I get the feeling it's the more powerful card, especially when overclocked.
 
Scougar said:
Basically really struggling to decide between this 6870 or a 470 :-(

The 470 is slightly more expensive, louder, hotter, takes more power, but I get the feeling it's the more powerful card, especially when overclocked.
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The GTX470 IS the more powerful card if both were overclocked, but like you already know it does consume much more power.
 
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how much of an increase would I get over an asus 4890 with a q6600?

I only have a corsair hx520w psu (1hdd, 1 dvd-rw, 4gb ocz reaper x ram) I assume this will be fine, wont be running xfire. Gaming at 1080p on a dell st2410
 
Tempted to off my 5970 and get 2 of these. Sounds crazy I know but i've just seen a 5970 for £360+ on eBay with 16 hours left.
 
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