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Ordering 7950 Today?

Jhaemes

Jhaemes

Jhaemes

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Planning to order a 7950 today, there's the MSI at £230 and the HIS IceQ at £230.

Ordinarily it'd be an easy decision (MSI), but the thread about the bad batch has me worried. Since I'm between houses (can move in in four days, then I can set up my desktop) I wouldn't be able to test the 7950 until then. Plus the hassle of returning it, if it turned out to be one of the bad ones.

It'll be going in an Antec P183 case, which has the three layer quietening tech which should cancel out a bit of noise.
 
Card length shouldn't be a problem since I can move my hard drive cage from the upper part to the lower one, allowing it to support up to 15.5 inches of graphics card.
 
Would it be worth getting the Gigabyte at £240 over the HIS IceQ, now it's gone back up to £240?

Noise, temps and overclocking are my top priorities.
 
Went ahead and ordered the HIS IceQ, coming from a GTX 550Ti.

Probably won't be able to do much with it until Friday though, poor desktop packed away xD
 
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