Sapphire vs Powercolour

[Ysmalari]

I'm about to buy myself a 256MB X1950XT so do people think that the Powercolour Silent version is better than the Sapphire non-silent version? I don't do much overclocking yet but will the Powercolour's extra 25MHZ processor power make it a worthier purchase in the future disregarding the volume issue?

 

[Ysmalari]

Anyone?

 

[lay-z-boy]

Well its silent, so theres one reason....

 

[Ysmalari]

lol, I had noticed!! Been out of the the gfx market for some time so do the companies make any difference?

 

[lay-z-boy]

not really no, its all about the bundled crap that you never use these days.
There are a few exceptions, HIS, for example tend to fit very good coolers to their cards.

 

[SkeeterUK]

To be honest if you feel comfortable with it, you could just buy one of the cheaper cards and then buy one of them nice zalman coolers and fit it on.

Hmm i wounder which is better, zalman cooler or the his iceq3 cooler?

 

[lay-z-boy]

tbh, i would take the lazy route that has the cooler pre installed so requires no effort and you don't loose your warranty.

 

[SkeeterUK]

Thats what im doing by getting the HiS. lol. As i have never changed a hsf on a gfx card before and if i botched it up that did somit bad to the card, thats like over a hundread quid down the drain.

 

[ACESHIGH]

I'm about to buy myself a 256MB X1950XT so do people think that the Powercolour Silent version is better than the Sapphire non-silent version? I don't do much overclocking yet but will the Powercolour's extra 25MHZ processor power make it a worthier purchase in the future disregarding the volume issue?

An extra 25MHz will make very little difference to the performance of the card.
If money is tight get the cheaper version. All the X1950XT cards offer very good performance

 

[Gibbo]

Hi there

If it was a choice just between the two, I'd buy the Powercolor due to the better cooler.

But if it was me I would just buy the HIS model, its got a better cooler again and its overclocked.

 

[1337z0r]

Pushed my X1950XT too 700MHZ core and stock memory pushed up the volts a bit and bf2142 was running sweet . Was a bit of artifacting in CSS though .