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6850 vs 6870

Dammit! just searched and found a few threads saying that exact thing, suspose that's why there's a price difference between them .
Thanks for telling me ;)

Looks like I'll be saving up and getting a good name 6870 then, until someone else comes and convinces me about another card :D
 
Fitted my new 6870 yesterday (MSI Hawk). My 460W PSU seems to have no issues powering it with my Phenom II 955, X-Fi, double HDDs and 4xDIMMs, - but the increased power draw seems to have taken it over a threshold and the fan now spins up a bit more than it used to. Silent graphics card, noisy system :(

Of course that may not bother you, nor even happen with your 500 watter, but thought I'd mention it since I did say it'd all run fine higher up this thread :)
 
Thanks for mentioning that, I'm not really bothered about noise personally and it can't get much louder than my old system which didn't bother me :)
I think it's down the HIS 6870 vs MSI Hawk 6870.
 
Well I can definitely vouch for the Hawk, it's a lovely bit of kit, very solid and metallic - possibly the heaviest single component in my rig. Experimenting with the voltage slider, I was able to take the core DOWN by 0.1V to a mere 1.08 while maintaining it's factory OC of 930MHz. Suggests very good overclocking headroom, when I actually own a game that needs it :)

My case is traditionally hot (only cost £30 :P) but even in that the Hawk never went above about 63-64 degrees after an hour of WoW, with its fan reading about 50%. Given that my old card would be pushing 70 by that point and had less power to dissipate, that's quite a victory.

Quite long though, bit over an inch more than my 8800GT. Fitted fine in the end, but I had to move a hard drive up out of its way. Advantage is it's now directly behind my front 120mm case fan :D
 
Yeah I can see myself saving a little bit more to get the Hawk, It's gonna be a better investment with better cooling, noise, power consumption, performance out of the box and loads of overclocking headroom for if it starts to struggle on a few newer games at some point.
In this review of a few 6870's they overclock the Hawk = http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...p-diamond-powercolor-msi-sapphire-xfx-19.html
 
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