7850 Options?

[Begbie]

Guys,

Been a long, long time since I owned a PC. Have bought CPU,RAM and Mobo and all I need now is a GPU.

From looking about the best bang for buck at the moment is the 7850?

But there is so many options......

The three I've seen that spike my intrest are;

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-052-HS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411

XFX HD 7850 Core Edition 2GB

and

Sapphire HD 7850 OC Edition 2GB

Are they all very much the same?

The sapphire seems to have a higher clock and is the cheapest, but then the one from OcUK does come bundled with two games I fancy trying.

I assume they will all overclock to the same anyway and all the internals are pretty much the same?

 

[Begbie]

The MSI are not voltage locked as far as I know so I would say go for those. You have to be careful because a lot of the 7850s are voltage locked to 1.223V max which makes overclocking more limited. With the MSI cards you should be able to hit 1.3V from what I have read which should allow you to overclock to 7950 speeds with no difficulty.

Again, from what I have read, most people are able to hit 1250-1300 Core and 5800-6000 Memory clock with no problems on 1.3V.

As for the free games, shouldn't all AMD cards currently come with "Never Settle" or "Never Settle: Reloaded" at the moment as this is an AMD promotion not retailer promotion?

The MSI comes with bioshock and tombraider and the other two come with never settle iirc.

Looks like the MSI is the one to go with anyway, alougth the most expensive will most likely end up cheaper in the long run.

Cheers guys, will read the sticky and clock the **** out of it.

 

[Begbie]

BioShock and Tombraider are from the Never Settle: Reloaded promotion, which is just AMD's updated promo.

Ahh, I'm pretty thick at times. So they all come with it!

Still, I do like the look of the MSI card, and being unlocked is a bonus.

On a side note (this being the best card I can afford it's pretty irrelevant) but how well does this card peform?

Am I going to be able to max out Bioshock/tombraider?

 

[Begbie]

Cheers guys, sorry to waste your time. Ended up buying a 7870

 

[Begbie]

did you get a 7870 or the vtx black boost 7870 = (7890/7930 depending on how you want to look at it).

7870 Msi Hawk mate?

Don't know anything about the black boost?