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Title: What is the best 5870? Post by: Dezeer on April 11, 2011, 10:42:42 AM I am thinking of buying a 5870 to replace my 5850. There is three models that I have investigated little bit.
I have also a MK-13 that I either sell or use as the 5870 cooler. MSI 5870 Ligtning 2x8pin power connectors 15 PWM + 1 NEC Proadlizer good cooling ~300€ Might not fit MK-13 because of the VRM/ram cooling plate Asus 5870 Matrix 2x8pin power connectors 12 PWM 2GB memory adequate cooling ~360€ Should fit MK-13 Gigabyte Radeon 5870 Super Overclock "only" 2x6pin power connectors 9 PWM + 5 NEC Proadlizer good cooling to GPU, but not on VRM or memory ~300€ Should fit MK-13 I would expect them all to reach near 1000Mhz on GPU. Gigabyte has got 9 PWN + 5 Proadlizers so that forgives for the better PWM that MSI and Asus have. What do you think I should get, and is there any other high end 5870s that I have missed? Title: Re: What is the best 5870? Post by: rezin777 on April 11, 2011, 10:55:23 AM I would buy the cheapest used reference board I could find.
I recently bought a new non-reference board XFX because I couldn't pass on the price. It cost one half of your least expensive option. Although I cannot adjust the voltage, it's running 950Mhz, no problem. Does it really make sense to pay twice the amount to get 50Mhz more? Of course, I don't know the availability of cheap cards where you live. Title: Re: What is the best 5870? Post by: Jered Kenna (TradeHill) on April 12, 2011, 03:36:11 PM The matrix is a cool card to screw around with but don't get it to mine with.
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