Second upgrade

[JonoB]

I bought a 7850 last week, and I'm upgrading my second rig now. 7850 does everything that I need, so I may as well go for another one.

This week's specials are:

Asus HD 7850 DirectCU II V2 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £149.99
Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £149.99



Don't really see much to choose between them. OC potential vs quietness - any preferences out there?

 

[BluSky]

DirectCU II is one of the best custom cooler implementations on the market, so that would be my choice. Performance wise there will be almost nothing in it. The Gigabyte comes with an extra game though making it slightly better value for money

 

[JonoB]

Went for the Gigabyte, mostly because it has 2 display ports vs 1 for the Asus. I will prob sell the games recouping a bit of money too.

 

[Marine-RX179]

Went for the Gigabyte, mostly because it has 2 display ports vs 1 for the Asus. I will prob sell the games recouping a bit of money too.

Also if you are unfortunate enough to need to RMA, it would be much cheaper and faster to Gigabyte at Milton Keynes UK than Asus at Netherland (plus the bad things we keep hear people mentioning about their rma service...)