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5970 STD Or 5970 Black?
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Soldato
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Speaking for all us poor *******, I just don't give a damn.
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Wait till XFX fix the overvolt toool such that it will run under Win 7 64 bit ... and depends on if you will water cool or not I reckon. If WC (which it looks like you will) then you may get the best out of the BE ...
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Unless he is inserting the card somewhere other than his case I don't think it applies.
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well you don't want an STD, VDs are horrid
If you can afford, you could go black, but it's not so much of a step up, but it is significant enough for it to be considered
If you can afford, you could go black, but it's not so much of a step up, but it is significant enough for it to be considered
Kool thanks all for your input.
Think i will go for the BE. I am using W7 64bit. But iam sure they will run the update soon ? I hope.
As for cooling i will put it on water but i always leave it for a mth or so to be sure the card is ok.
I have a 5870 thats away for repair 'flickering screen' With the smallest of OC.
Think i will go for the BE. I am using W7 64bit. But iam sure they will run the update soon ? I hope.
As for cooling i will put it on water but i always leave it for a mth or so to be sure the card is ok.
I have a 5870 thats away for repair 'flickering screen' With the smallest of OC.
The XFX tool doesn't support 64bit operating systems, which completely defeats its purpose as an enthusiast card. I mean, we're talking about a cutting edge DX11 card - who ISN'T going to be running Vista 64bit or Win7 64bit? It's annoying because the error message simply says "Sorry, this tool isn't supported on your graphics card" instead of saying it doesn't support 64bit. It confused me at first.
My advice would be to grab any version of the card you can get your hands on. They all work with the standard ATi Overvolt tool. Perhaps if XFX updated their tool to support 64bit and loaded the settings on startup my advice would be different.
My advice would be to grab any version of the card you can get your hands on. They all work with the standard ATi Overvolt tool. Perhaps if XFX updated their tool to support 64bit and loaded the settings on startup my advice would be different.
Jumping hat racks Batman, that thing's huge
Its a little big
But it lets me do this
(look at the temps/CPU speed.
Before anyone says "OMG easy tune" I boot at 4.4Ghz then use that to up the volts and play about. I have had it to 4.713 but cant find the screen shot.
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