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7870 which brand which version?

If I were going to go with a 7850 I would consider the XFX. It uses the 7870 PCB with 2 power connectors. I would think overclocking would be safer with the better power circuitry.

EDIT: OOPS just looked...OCUK doesn't sell XFX? I'm in the US so don't know...but aren't XFX sold in UK?






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yes they are sold here but i've had bad experience with their cards and their PSU's aren't brilliant either from reviews so i don't buy their products anymore.
 
just to update my question, it does look like no brainer but surely duel fans will make more noise than a single fan?

meh, the design doesn't look that amazing anyway, going for the HIS Version.

thanks guys.
 
take a read of this: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18389760

Whilst the VTX is appealing due to price, the slightly more expensive MSI and Sapphire models do stand out as the best due to their dual fan and almost aftermarket fan setup.

I myself, have a Sapphire 7850 O.C. model and I couldn't be happier. So much quieter than the reference models.

My card will do over 1200 on the core and is happy with 6000 on the memory too with only 1.176 volts.

580GTX performance if not better for a far cheaper price. Says it all for me.
 
+1 to the 7850 or 7950 over the 7870, just not worth it.

Personally, the 7950 all the way. Worth the little more just for the outright power and extra ram.

Although the VTX is a good deal, it has little to no Customer/RMA Support whatsoever, i'd personally spend a little bit more an get a an MSI or Gigabyte which have great Customer Support in the UK and have peace of mind if there was any issues with the card.

I'd also go reference and whack on one of these:

http://www.arctic.ac/en/p/detail/index/sArticle/502/sCategory/2182

Got 2 of them on my 6970's and at 75% fan speed they are inaudible and either card doesn't go over 55 degrees under 100% load (overclocked 1000 core 5000 memory). Quality.

:D
 
Dobzzz said:
+1 to the 7850 or 7950 over the 7870, just not worth it.

Personally, the 7950 all the way. Worth the little more just for the outright power and extra ram.

Although the VTX is a good deal, it has little to no Customer/RMA Support whatsoever, i'd personally spend a little bit more an get a an MSI or Gigabyte which have great Customer Support in the UK and have peace of mind if there was any issues with the card.

I'd also go reference and whack on one of these:

http://www.arctic.ac/en/p/detail/index/sArticle/502/sCategory/2182

Got 2 of them on my 6970's and at 75% fan speed they are inaudible and either card doesn't go over 55 degrees under 100% load (overclocked 1000 core 5000 memory). Quality.

:D
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Oops mean't 5800 memory Doh!:rolleyes:
 
Why? Why would you buy the cheap VTX, then spend £30 upgrading the cooler and losing your warranty, when for £10 more than the VTX you can have the HIS with an already upgraded cooler and intact warranty.
 
If your set on either the HIS or the Sapphire, i'd say Sapphire.

Better cooler and higher quality vram heatsinks.


Oh and HEX, i agree, on paper, that you would lose warranty if you had an issue
with the card and returned it back with the AFTERMARKET COOLER still on!

Nothing stopping you placing the original cooler back on in such circumstance, n i'm pretty sure HIS nor Sapphire would even check, they'd just replace it.

Might be wrong, definately cheeky, but it happens quite a bit.

P.S. (Not speaking form experience by the way, i replaced the standard coolers on my cards 13 months after approx.)

Then again, wasn't to worried about 2 or 3 years warranty as i usually upgrade after 12-18 months or so. Would be upgrading in a month or so as usually but really see no need to with the 6970's and at my res.
 
None of the reference 7850s have ram sinks as far as I know and, as Hex says, they're just not really needed, BUT, if you're thinking of bunging an aftermarket cooler on I'd recommend this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-002-GD&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=787

Exceptional temperature drops when used, and with a fan speed reducing adapter, cable or fanmate, the fans are totally silent and temps aren't really affected. You get heatsinks of varying sizes for the ram which means you can put a few of the smaller ones on the vrms.
Dropped my temps from 72c-75c when running heaven and even slightly higher when gaming (which appears to push the card harder than benching) to 40c-45c ish, when to me is exceptional. Installing this on my VTX 7859 enabled me to get an extra 50mhz overclock that was stable in games. My card isn't a particularly good clocker and needs all the help it can get.
 
tobsmonster2 said:
I'd say not buying the cheapest (reference) versions of a card, because you're worried about coil whine, would be a bit silly.
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The irony, i wrote some c# today and set 4 threads with looping functions and my PC screamed(whined like crazy), it is quite scary. Moved programme to SDD and same effect happened lol.

now i can only run my programme on my Uni's server :/ meh it's finished so don't care but i thought it was so ironic & related :D
 
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