Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 1200MHZ 2GB 4.8GHZ GDDR5 DUAL-LINK DVI HDMI DP Dual Fan PCI-E Video Card

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-this card surpassed my expectations-i get almost double FPS in bf3 compared to my hd6850 on ULTRA (hd6850 was a mix of high and ultra, with shadows low no aa) res at 1080p-the only con is that the card is a little louder than my old card under heavy load when the fan surpasses 50% speed ( the asus directcu version 1 was much quieter) but the card definitely runs much cooler with the DUAL-X fansso i guess its a trade off, better cooler vs slightly loudernot sure if it's the cooler itself, of the combination of the 28nm and dual-xthe card comes recommended, i PM it at 227$worthy upgrade for anyone wants to upgrade from a 5850/6850

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Bought a pair on Dec 26th and could not be happier.Upgrading from a 5970, Crossfire 7870's have been nothing short of amazing.These run cooler, consume less power and kick the crap out of my 5970. They do run a bit warm under load. My slot spacing is tight so cards are choked for air. Waterblocks are on order.No driver or crossfire issues, using 31.1 drivers and rock solid.200+ frames in FarCry 3If your looking for max frames without draining the wallet ...Look toward the 7870

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Lots of people on a site that starts with new said these cards were horrible, they say that the card overheated,crashed and alltogther this is bad card. Seems like that site just had bad stock because my card is fine.That aside NCIX said this card has a 1200mhz oc it doesn't the card is clocked at 1Ghz.This card runs cool (under 65C) and chucks out around 50-60 FPS whatever game I play.I bought this card on a suprise special for $200, just to think one year ago a card like this costed around $400-$500 is just amazing! Overall Im very pleased with this card and would buy from sapphire again.

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With the amount of power this thing has you expect max FPS without tweaking on maximum settings on any game, but across a wide selection of games and a variety of settings the frame rate varies heavily.

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I stress tested this card out of the box, it never got above 68c. The cooler on this is amazing, and the fans are the quietest I've ever had. Throwing Metro on ultra, Far Cry 3 on ultra, or any other game I own, this card throws out a solid 50 fps+ at all times.