Bitcoin Forum
April 23, 2018, 10:18:38 AM *
News: Latest stable version of Bitcoin Core: 0.16.0  [Torrent]. (New!)
 
   Home   Help Search Donate Login Register  
Bitcoin Forum > Other > Archival > CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware (Moderators: gmaxwell, MiningBuddy, -ck) > Am I the only one who buys a video card based on looks?
Pages: [1]
« previous topic next topic »
  Print  
Author Topic: Am I the only one who buys a video card based on looks?  (Read 986 times)
Mousepotato
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 896
Merit: 1000


Seal Cub Clubbing Club


View Profile
June 16, 2011, 08:33:41 PM
 #1
I feel weird admitting this, but I almost won't consider buying a card with a mid-mounted fan.  I like the monolithic looking boards with the fan at the very end, like this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814103182&cm_re=6970-_-14-103-182-_-Product

My only exception is the 5830 that I just ordered, simply because it was a really good price.  Anybody else favor the reference form-factor cards for the aesthetics alone?
Mousepotato
1524478718
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1524478718

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1524478718
1524478718
Reply with quote  #2
1524478718
Report to moderator
1524478718
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1524478718

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1524478718
1524478718
Reply with quote  #2
1524478718
Report to moderator
Delivering Blockchain Technology to the Real World Roadmap • Whitepaper • Wallet • Marketplace phore.io
Advertised sites are not endorsed by the Bitcoin Forum. They may be unsafe, untrustworthy, or illegal in your jurisdiction. Advertise here.
1524478718
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1524478718

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1524478718
1524478718
Reply with quote  #2
1524478718
Report to moderator
1524478718
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1524478718

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1524478718
1524478718
Reply with quote  #2
1524478718
Report to moderator
1524478718
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1524478718

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1524478718
1524478718
Reply with quote  #2
1524478718
Report to moderator
detroit
Member
**
Offline Offline

Activity: 69
Merit: 10


View Profile
June 17, 2011, 11:04:24 AM
 #2
"There's one in every crowd!" Roll Eyes
 Grin
Tradehill.com referral code: TH-R1494
Please consider using it if I've said something useful!
Yanz
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Activity: 133
Merit: 100


View Profile
June 17, 2011, 03:13:41 PM
 #3
I think the reference design looks better. Also the red stripe is far better looking than the silly stickers the oems stick on.  Smiley
With great video cards comes great power consumption.
kokojie
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 1736
Merit: 1000



View Profile
June 17, 2011, 03:37:41 PM
 #4
yes, the mid mounted fan is ugly, I like the sapphire 6970
btc: 15sFnThw58hiGHYXyUAasgfauifTEB1ZF6
grue
Global Moderator
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 2100
Merit: 1136



View Profile
June 17, 2011, 03:39:28 PM
 #5
who cares about looks? I'm all about cooling!
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

Adblock for annoying signature ads | Enhanced Merit UI
zerokwel
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Activity: 466
Merit: 250



View Profile
June 17, 2011, 04:21:02 PM
 #6
think so I order my kit based on price Smiley if is cheaper It looks better to me Smiley
compro01
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 546
Merit: 500


Blockchain Connection Framework


View Profile
June 17, 2011, 05:41:17 PM
 #7
mine's shinier and runs cold like the arctic.  quiet too.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125357
███████████████████████████████████████
███████▀ ▄▄▄ ▀██▌ ███ ▐███ ▀████ ██▌ ██
███████ █████ ██ ▌▐█▌▐ ███ ▄ ▀██ ██▌ ██
███████▄ ▀▀▀ ▄█▌▐█ █ █▌▐██ ██▄ ▀ ██▌ ██
███████▀▀▀▀▀▀▀█ ███ ███ ██ ████▄ ██▌ ██
███████████████████████████████████████
███████▄▄▄ ▄▄▄█ ████ ██ ▄▄▄▄▀███ ▄▄▄▄██
██████████ ████ ████ ██ █████ ██ ▀▀▀███
██████████ ████ ████ ██ █████ ██ ██████
██████████ ████▄▀▀▀▀▄██ ▀▀▀▀▄███ ▀▀▀▀██
██████████████████████████████████████▀
████████████████████████████████████▀
██████████████████████████████████▀		.OMNITUDE.▄████
███
███
███
███
███
███
███
███
███
███
███
▀████		.
.TWITTER     REDDIT     LINKEDIN.
.................ANN THREAD.................
....FACEBOOK           TELEGRAM....
████▄
███
███
███
███
███
███
███
███
███
███
███
████▀
  JOINNOW.
RyNinDaCleM
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 2352
Merit: 1001


Legen -wait for it- dary


View Profile
June 17, 2011, 07:21:29 PM
 #8
I like reference design cards for the simple fact, it's easier to find aftermarket coolers/water blocks that fit them! The third party, non-ref coolers are...definitely suckin'!
Pages: [1]
  Print  
Bitcoin Forum > Other > Archival > CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware (Moderators: gmaxwell, MiningBuddy, -ck) > Am I the only one who buys a video card based on looks?
 « previous topic next topic »
 
Jump to:  

Sponsored by , a Bitcoin-accepting VPN.
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!