**ATI RADEON 7800 SERIES NOW AVAILABLE!!**

[Gibbo]

Hi there


The ATi Radeon 7800 series is now available to order with stock due end of month:-


HIS HD 7870 IceQ 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H787Q2G2M) @ £289.99 inc VAT

Hightech Information System (HIS) today announced the launch of HIS 7870 GHz Edition IceQ 2GB. The card has clock rate of 1000 MHz, offering superb image quality for the most demanding games and applications. The renowned IceQ solution provides a quieter atmosphere and makes the card up to 20 °C cooler than reference cards. T he card also has better OC capability and longer life span with HIS high quality component. The card comes with the innovative overclocking software by HIS – iTurbo. User can control the temperature, speed and power in their hands!

With IceQ, the card is up to 20 °C cooler than the Reference Cooler. The super large 80 x 21.5mm single blower fan draws massive amount of cool air to cool the GPU directly. The fan is equipped with 2 ball bearing and is extremely durable with a life span of 50,000 hours! 4 wide heatpipes optimize cooling performance by removing heat from the core area. The extra large 35 x 30mm copper heatsink provides a large heat dissipation area. The card also features fan control and fan monitoring, you are able to read fan speed & Asic temperature from CCC or software. IceQ is one of the quietest coolers. The card is below 28dB dB when watching movies, surfing Facebook, working. The card is quiet in 2D mode and remains quiet whether you are gaming, online socializing, entertaining or working.

iTurbo is your software assistant to control your graphics card to be quiet, cool and experience overclocking by simply pressing the iTurbo Button! User Friendly Overclocking Software: Cooler, Quiter, OC!
iTurbo's Fan Control and Fan Monitoring allow easy adjustment of your card to its maximum cooling performance or to run your card quietly! Press iTurbo: OC Right Away! With the smart auto overclocking function, users can experience a slight performance boost for HIS selected graphic cards with just one click! Powerful Overclocking Software: Either you wish to unleash its full potential or to make it more environmental friendly, iTurbo is ready for you!


Features:-
- Core Clock: 1000MHz
- Memory: 2048MB GDDR5
- Memory Clock: 4800MHz (Effective)
- Processing Cores: 1280
- ROPS: 32
- Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.1
- Display Connectors: 1 Dual Link DVI-I, 1 HDMI & 2x Mini-DisplayPort
- HDCP Capable
- DirectX 11 Support
- Shader Model 5.0 Support
- OpenGL 4.0 Support
- ATI CrossFire Ready
- ATI Eyefinity Technology
- ATI Avivo HD
- ATI Stream Technology
- ATI HD3D Technology
- Warranty: 2 Years


Only £289.99 inc VAT.

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Sapphire HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card @ £194.99 inc VAT

Offering excellent performance at an even keener price, SAPPHIRE HD 7850 shares the features of the HD 7000 family with Dual-X cooling technology, a highly efficient multi-heatpipe cooler with dual fans providing quiet and very cool operation during normal operating conditions, and superb cooling performance even under extreme load.

Features:-
- Core Clock: 860MHz
- Memory: 2048MB GDDR5
- Memory Clock: 4800MHz (Effective)
- Processing Cores: 1024
- ROPS: 32
- Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.1
- Display Connectors: 1 Dual Link DVI-I, 1 HDMI & 2x Mini-DisplayPort
- HDCP Capable
- DirectX 11 Support
- Shader Model 5.0 Support
- OpenGL 4.0 Support
- ATI CrossFire Ready
- ATI Eyefinity Technology
- ATI Avivo HD
- ATI Stream Technology
- ATI HD3D Technology
- Warranty: 2 Years


Only £194.99 inc VAT.

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Sapphire HD 7870 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card @ £274.99 inc VAT

The new SAPPHIRE HD 7800 series of graphics cards is based on the third family of GPU’s from AMD built in its new 28nm process and featuring the highly acclaimed GCN graphics processing architecture.
The Sapphire HD 7870 GHz Edition is equipped with 2GB of the latest GDDR5 memory clocked at 1200MHz (4.8Gb/s effective) with the new dual-extractor technology - Dual-X - a highly efficient multi-heatpipe cooler with dual fans providing quiet and very cool operation during normal operating conditions, and superb cooling performance even under extreme load.

Features:-
- Core Clock: 1000MHz
- Memory: 2048MB GDDR5
- Memory Clock: 4800MHz (Effective)
- Processing Cores: 1280
- ROPS: 32
- Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.1
- Display Connectors: 1 Dual Link DVI-I, 1 HDMI & 2x Mini-DisplayPort
- HDCP Capable
- DirectX 11 Support
- Shader Model 5.0 Support
- OpenGL 4.0 Support
- ATI CrossFire Ready
- ATI Eyefinity Technology
- ATI Avivo HD
- ATI Stream Technology
- ATI HD3D Technology
- Warranty: 2 Years


Only £274.99 inc VAT.

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VIEW FULL 7800 SERIES - HERE!

 

[Bobisuruncle54]

Be interesting to see how popular these are, I imagine those with 4800s or the equivalent will be eyeing these up.

 

[eyetrip]

*Strokes Asus 7950* my precioussssss

Do think the 7870's are good cards, but when they are just over £200 will be more worth it I reckon.

Are they actually available Gibbo? Site says pre-order?

 

[HeX]

AMD have lost the plot with their pricing These need to be ~£250 tops really as they are pretty much 570 performance, which can be had considerably cheaper.

MSI 7870 = £290
MSI 570 = £240

£50 more for the exact same performance.

Just doesn't make sense.

 

[straxusii]

Mad pricing from AMD

2 570s on OCUK at £221 or under, you'd have to be mad to buy either of these cards over the 570

 

[Gibbo]

AMD have lost the plot with their pricing These need to be ~£250 tops really as they are pretty much 570 performance, which can be had considerably cheaper.

MSI 7870 = £290
MSI 570 = £240

£50 more for the exact same performance.

Just doesn't make sense.

Agreed, NVIDIA are now the better value proposition, but for how long, the NVIDIA price drop is only temperory, NVIDIA will pull all price/rebate support towards end of April, so if any old NVIDIA stock left it shall go back to previous pricing.

Though I feel NVIDIA will hold the 570 price where it is, 580 is now EOL and is a good bargain whilst they are available and 680 shall be here in just a few days time at similar to 7970 pricing.

 

[RavenXXX2]

You know it's AMD now right?

As for the the cards the 7870 is a nice card, basically 580 performance for less cash, and it clocks real good as well.

 

[HeX]

You know it's AMD now right?

As for the the cards the 7870 is a nice card, basically 580 performance for less cash, and it clocks real good as well.

It's not 580 performance, its 570 performance.

If it were 580 they'd be a bargain.

 

[Gibbo]

You know it's AMD now right?

As for the the cards the 7870 is a nice card, basically 580 performance for less cash, and it clocks real good as well.

Really 580 performance, I am not seeing that. Maybe when overclocked considerably, but my £300 notes would be going on a 580, not a 7870.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Anandtech is releasing a review of the non-referance HD7870 cards today and at least one of them has hit 1200MHZ for the core according to them:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18384585

HC puts the HD7870 as around 9% faster on average:

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...165-amd-radeon-hd-7870-hd-7850-review-18.html

Still,the GTX570 for the time being seems better value especially if it is around £220.

 

[shadow_boxer]

Makes a 570 for £220 look like a bargain. Fail from AMD with pricing.

 

[Gibbo]

Makes a 570 for £220 look like a bargain. Fail from AMD with pricing.

Makes this mental 570 look like a bargain:-


Gainward GeForce GTX 570 Goes Like Hell 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card @ £239.99 inc VAT

With explosive performance and an innovative thermal design, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 570 rips through the latest games like World of WarCraft®: Cataclysm, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.® 2 with quiet operation. As you've come to expect from a GeForce GTX GPU, GTX 570 packs support for all the premium GTX gaming technologies such as DirectX 11, NVIDIA® Surround, 3D Vision™, PhysX®, and SLI®. GeForce GTX 570 - arm yourself for battle.

Features:-
- Core Clock: 800MHz
- Innovative thermal design: Vapour Chamber (Quieter than previous generation)
- Memory: 1280MB GDDR5
- Memory Clock: 4000MHz (Effective)
- Memory Interface: 320-Bit
- Processing Cores: 480
- Shader Clock: 1600MHz
- Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.0
- Display Connectors: 2x Dual-Link DVI-I, 1x HDMI, 1x Displayport
- SLI Ready (Upto 3-Way SLI Supported)
- HDCP Capable
- DirectX 11 Support
- OpenGL 4.0 Support
- PhysX Enabled
- CUDA Enabled
- 3D Vision Enabled
- NVIDIA Surround Enabled
- Warranty: 2 years


Only £239.99 inc VAT.

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[555BUK]

GTX480 performance for £100 more. This 28nm stuff brings new meaning to the mainstream "value" segment. Whatever happened to faster, cooler, cheaper, for successive generations? Atleast there shouldn't be any stock shortages.

Methinks AMD and NVidia are at it again.

 

[HeX]

None in stock either, Sapphire had ETA of 19th, now changed to 31st =/

So no 7800's for anyone today.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Yeah it's a mixed bag, up there with a 580 in some and not so much in other games. it's certainly faster than a 570 in a load of games and clocks to 1200Mhz relatively easily. Driver updates have giving it a real performance boost in some titles as well, check out crysis 2 results with an updated driver.

Yes 570 is cheaper but you have way less ram and way more power draw and higher temps.

 

[Bobisuruncle54]

Yeah it's a mixed bag, up there with a 580 in some and not so much in other games. it's certainly faster than a 570 in a load of games and clocks to 1200Mhz relatively easily. Driver updates have giving it a real performance boost in some titles as well, check out crysis 2 results with an updated driver.

Yes 570 is cheaper but you have way less ram and way more power draw and higher temps.

Agreed, I've seen this too. Given the choice between a 570, 580 or 7870 I would get the 7870, but it is still expensive for what it is.

The GTX 570s have also been at around £230-240 for donkeys, don't know why people think it's great pricing, it's always been around that mark.

Anyway, with regards to the 7870, it seems you're paying a lot for potential overclocking performance, rather than its performance at stock.

 

[djxput]

7850 isnt too bad considering its supposed to be similar to the 6950 and from the few benches here looks like it benches close to if not better then it. and pricing looks nice

 

[thenewoc]

Too high and still blue pcb's from sapphire

 

[HeX]

7850 pricing is OK, depending on the game it's between 560Ti and 6950 performance, so it's right where it should be.

It's just the 7870 that's overpriced, it's not worth almost 40% more than the '50, when the performance difference between the two is probably closer to 20% in most cases.

 

[Bobisuruncle54]

7850 pricing is OK, depending on the game it's between 560Ti and 6950 performance, so it's right where it should be.

It's just the 7870 that's overpriced, it's not worth almost 40% more than the '50, when the performance difference between the two is probably closer to 20% in most cases.

They're both massively overpriced for new generation cards. The 7850 is only 4% faster than the 6950 and replaces it at the same price. The 7780 is only 10% faster than the 6970 for the same price. The 7850 is the slightly better deal but both are rotten offers considering the benefits of a full node jump.