XFX 5870 vid card

Did you ever register your card?. Before the 7000 series, all XFX cards had lifetime warranties and they are honored in a timely fashion after going through the service ticket hoops. Since the 5870 has been off the shelf for so long you probably won't get one back, instead a product of "comparable performance"...maybe a 7770, or whatever refurbs they have laying around.

The fan is replaceable, whether you have the reference blower style or non-reference bladed fan. It's just a matter of obtaining one from ebay or such and carefully disassembling the heatsink. You can also buy entire aftermarket heatsinks that will perform better than the stock units.

If you can't get a warranty replacement and don't want to mess around with a new fan or heatsink, the 7950 is a good choice and more attractive with the new game bundle. The 660 Ti is nice, but the smaller memory bus can mean lower minimum FPS at high resolutions, and if you really want the AMD game bundle, the price advantage on a good deal is negated. I've had a 7950 for a couple months now with no complaints other than the lack of dual DVI.

 
I went with the Radeon HD 6870 very nice budget card with 2 DVI, one HDMI and one Display port. Very happy with the AMD setup. No VGA. The 660 Ti is a nice card too. The 6870 comes with overclocking software "Trixx" that makes tweeking easy for any level of user.

 
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Though as a rule, you should never tamper with the clocks on your computer unless you really know what you are doing, and have ideally upgraded all the cooling. Too much risk of cooking the parts for the small gains.

 
strigori said:
Though as a rule, you should never tamper with the clocks on your computer unless you really know what you are doing, and have ideally upgraded all the cooling. Too much risk of cooking the parts for the small gains.
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This, in no way attempt overclocking without prior knowledge and sufficient cooling.

 
Finally got the cpu cooler fan from China. It's amazing how hot the cpu tower gets without a fan :) . Was kinda hopin it would fry to facilitate an upgrade to i5/7 cpu and mobo. Oh well. Crysis 3 runs good on the new 7950 card with all settings at maximum, and that's without loading the amd catalyst package onto windows???? who knew.

 
rawhide said:
Finally got the cpu cooler fan from China. It's amazing how hot the cpu tower gets without a fan :) . Was kinda hopin it would fry to facilitate an upgrade to i5/7 cpu and mobo. Oh well. Crysis 3 runs good on the new 7950 card with all settings at maximum, and that's without loading the amd catalyst package onto windows???? who knew.
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Good to hear.

I just ordered the 2GB version of the 7850 myself--I'll have to try running it w/o installing the AMD catalyst package and see if I get as good of results as you.

 
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