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Anyonw uaws and had experience with this card?
how is it compred to the reference boards?
The reviews look promising though
how is it compred to the reference boards?
The reviews look promising though
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SAPPHIRE Vapor-X HD5870
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Soldato
I wouldn't really fancy 200W being dumped inside my case either.
does this consume more power than the normal 5870?
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I absolutely agree, in fact you can almost get the clocks of some 5970s that high with enough overvolting so despite its clock advantage it will still get an ass whoopin' from the 5970
Yes, but not a great deal more as the clocks are only a fraction higher.
will a 700w pSU be ok to run a 5870 ?
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700 watter should run a 5970 nevermind a 5870.
just wanted to make sure as lot of people on here have got it
Not happy with your current card? I wish I stayed with my 4870 tbh. The 5870 is just over kill for anything I play like Dragon Age, COD MF2, DOW2.
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got 2 5870's and its massive overkill. when are games gonna catch up? =[ at least i know im future proofed.
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I'm afriad I lost faith in Sapphire's non-stock cooled/factory overclocked cards a while back.
I had a pair of 3870s (vapour-X editions again), both were heavily overclocked out of the box and simply couldn't operate without artifacts and driver errors (display driver stopped responding etc). It was certainly the cards and not any other weakness in my system. My case was an antec 900, so well cooled, solid PSU and even the vendor agreed that both cards were faulty upon return. Switching to two standard 3870s solved everything.
Since then I've nearly always plumped for plain vanilla cards, more especially with ATI, never had an issue with any of their stock cooled solutions and as others have said, manually OCing these often yeilds just as successful results.
I had a pair of 3870s (vapour-X editions again), both were heavily overclocked out of the box and simply couldn't operate without artifacts and driver errors (display driver stopped responding etc). It was certainly the cards and not any other weakness in my system. My case was an antec 900, so well cooled, solid PSU and even the vendor agreed that both cards were faulty upon return. Switching to two standard 3870s solved everything.
Since then I've nearly always plumped for plain vanilla cards, more especially with ATI, never had an issue with any of their stock cooled solutions and as others have said, manually OCing these often yeilds just as successful results.
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agreed, its a lot of premium for a small clock bump as well. I could understand paying a premium for something like a 150mhz clock speed increase but in many cases its 25mhz/50mhz and just isnt worth it.
it is expensive for a slight performance boost, but if it was the same price as a normal 5870 would you buy it?
I have another rig which my 4870 will be going into, so I am looking for a 5870 for my main PC