HIS HD 7950 IceQ

[cr!spy]

Is this a good deal at the moment for £239.99? I don't want to buy it then find the prices drop even more when the GTX 660 finally comes out.

Also HIS do a turbo version of this clocked @ 900MHz, but as far as I can tell they're still the same cards

 

[Gregster]

I think that is a good deal. If I was in the market for a new GPU, that price would sway me to team red.

 

[cr!spy]

Cheers. Got my cursor hovering over the buy button...

 

[Sharplucas]

No, buy the Gtx 660 ti

 

[cr!spy]

It will be going in my old system which is:

i5 760 @ 4.0GHz
Asus P7P55D-E Pro
8GB XMS 1600MHz
OCZ 600w

Do you think there would be a bottleneck issue at all?

 

[Gregster]

Nope. It will run fine

 

[matt_fsr]

Anyone got any info on the noise level of this card?

According to:
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.p...k=view&id=906&Itemid=72&limit=1&limitstart=17

The cooler seems to be unable to cool the card any further even when pushed to 100% fan speed, and therefore at 100% it is noisy.

I'd rather buy a lesser card with a factory-fit cooler that's quiet, than a noisy card and then need to spend £40 or so shutting it up!

 

[cr!spy]

Think I'm going to hold fire for now. It's all kicked off now the 660ti has been released. Will wait a week and see what happens with prices.