Well I'm in two minds about buying a 5870. I was going to wait until the GTX380 and then decide which to get. Although the Nvidia card will most likely cost a small fortune and will most likely operate around 10% better than a 5870.
Anyway here's the point I was getting to...Currently I am able to get a XFX 5870 for bang on £300 I have more than enough money. I once had a 4870x2 and returned it due to the fan being stupidly noisey. I was hoping that this issue would have been solved with the 5000 series cards but I think they havnet bothered with solving it at all after watching a few videos.
I stumbled across this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m3IdFaD4-c
(Yes I know its a 5850 never the less I'm sure its the same fan)
Anyway I was hoping someone on this site with a 5870 could tell me what speed the fan is normally set at and if it has any risk of overheating. Before I had a terrible case with 1x 120mm fan. My 4870x2 was always up in the 60c-77c region (77 being under heavy load such as crysis etc) to keep it around the 50's I had to have the fan speed on 60% now that I have an antec 1200 I was hoping that this new card could operate at a good temp at around 40% fan speed.
Thanks for reading
Anyway here's the point I was getting to...Currently I am able to get a XFX 5870 for bang on £300 I have more than enough money. I once had a 4870x2 and returned it due to the fan being stupidly noisey. I was hoping that this issue would have been solved with the 5000 series cards but I think they havnet bothered with solving it at all after watching a few videos.
I stumbled across this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m3IdFaD4-c
(Yes I know its a 5850 never the less I'm sure its the same fan)
Anyway I was hoping someone on this site with a 5870 could tell me what speed the fan is normally set at and if it has any risk of overheating. Before I had a terrible case with 1x 120mm fan. My 4870x2 was always up in the 60c-77c region (77 being under heavy load such as crysis etc) to keep it around the 50's I had to have the fan speed on 60% now that I have an antec 1200 I was hoping that this new card could operate at a good temp at around 40% fan speed.
Thanks for reading