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Which graphic card manufacturer?

peter_budo

peter_budo

peter_budo

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I'm looking to buy ATI HD 5850. Originally I wanted to get HIS ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 as I'm my last 4670 from them was good choice. Unfortunately there a shortage of this card from HIS across Europe, so I'm starting to considerate other manufacturers

Asus ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 is next after HIS. I never had any graphic card from them, but I'm happy with their motherboards so I sort of expect that graphic card should be good quality.

Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 5850 is next on the list. I had it previously it was good as long it last, but then it started to overheat and I had to swap cooler on it (used one of the artics), but it never been same.

I know there are is also Sapphire, but I had two of these and both didn'y last for long and had to be replaced.

So which to buy?

PS: Please do not suggest 5870 or 5900 series as I'm not willing to pay that much for the card
 
I went for a sapphire 5850 as i have read that they make them all anyway and it is pretty cheap right now
 
bells said:
I went for a sapphire 5850 as i have read that they make them all anyway and it is pretty cheap right now
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Sorry as I already mentioned I'm not interested in Sapphire. Two of them failed previously so I do not trust them anymore. Besides, they been one of the noise cards I had
 
Nothing wrong with Sapphire you have just been unlucky, my sons PC's are running Sapp-4850's overclocked to 675 / 1100MHz both very quiet, one's about 2yrs old the other just over one and if they do make them all. As above you'll have to defect to Nvidia.

Just finished my build by upgrading the GFX card ATI 4890 > Sapp 5870 - 850 / 4800MHz overclocked it straight away to 5870 Vapour setting's 870 / 5000MHz idle's at 33'c running Haven Benchmark after 6 loops never went over 63'c.
 
Like people said amte, Sapphire are a find make and they do produce some fantastic cards. However, Xfx IMO are better and is worth the price, jsut for the warrenty :D
 
no eta on the asus, its possible to get one from sapphire etc and flash it, just it makes the warrenty void (unless you pull a fast one there, flash it back in other words)

also there is little to no difference between them, only the BIOS, warrenty and accersois
 
AMG said:
no eta on the asus, its possible to get one from sapphire etc and flash it, just it makes the warrenty void (unless you pull a fast one there, flash it back in other words)

also there is little to no difference between them, only the BIOS, warrenty and accersois
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Any hints on HIS eta?
 
Of those I'd go for the Asus if you can get one, for the ease of overclocking.

But either way, as has been pointed out, the first generation of these cards are all basically the same card. It won't matter where you get them from, it's just the differentiation provided by bios (Asus overclocking) and warranty lengths that should be the deciding factors.
 
peter_budo said:
Whats the point of having CrossFire motherboard if I stuff with SLI card? Don't you thing it would be stupid waste?
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Not really, the only problem would be if you intended to go SLi in the future. Which you very well might not do. Multi-gpu is not all that incredibly really, otherwise we'd all be using it. It's expensive, noisy and depends on driver support so usually you're better off with a single card.
 
Scan got delivery of Asus cards today (same as oc) so I got one from them, they been cheaper even with next day delivery

PS: No intention of spamming etc. just stating facts
 
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