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Product ReviewsPowercolor Radeon HD 7870 PCS+ MYST. Edition 2GB 4.8GBPS GDDR5 DVI HDMI 2XMINIDP PCI-E Video Card
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 Rating: Review Date: 10/23/13  |
Cons: none.
Pros: Great Price. Amazing performance. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/29/13 |
Cons: mir date is 18 mars 2013 not 16 mars
Pros: good. mir date is 18 mars 2013 not 16 mars Comment:
Very good card. Run hot with amd driver but wen you control de fanis ok with a lot more noise. Never recyve the mail in rabate. supose to start 18 mars 2013 not 16 mars 2013 ! frustrating. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/22/13 |
Cons: The temperature tends to be higher
Pros: Fantastic card! very solid, great value buy and it is not too loud. Worked like a charm! Comment:
Combined this with an AMD FX8350 and 16GB of DDR3. Most games can be run on High or Ultra. Very decent and reliable card. This card can be compared to a HD7950. Smart buy and recommended! |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/28/13 |
Cons: - None so far
Pros: - Great looks- Does great for gaming on a single monitor Comment:
Used this in a build for a friend. First experience with a Power Color card and I'm impressed. It looks great and runs cool. It's not shown any problem with any games on a single monitor. Would recommend. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/28/13 |
Cons: Wish I hadn't paid an extra $10!
Pros: Price, performance Comment:
I got this card for $225 AR, just before it came up in the weekly sale for $215 AR.But that's my only complaint. For the price, this card is hard to beat. The cooler isn't the best, but my card OCs like a champ on very reasonable voltage. Easily outperforms my 7950 boost at stock. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/25/13 |
Cons: loud under load
Pros: Amazing price /performance Comment:
Coming from a 69502gb, I was more than satisfied. I was surprised and amazed at the improvement. 7700 3dmarks score from 5200 on the 6950. 8500 3dmarks at 1100mhz core clock.idles at 32c instead of 52, very overclock friendly. decent temps.Just very loud past 50% fan speed. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/20/13 |
Cons: - single fan so it may get loud at higher loads
Pros: - fast- great price for a Tahiti based card Comment:
I bought this as a gift to upgrade my brother's 5850. He noticed the speed bump immediately. Vast improvement in playing his games. SO for this I'm giving the card 5 stars, even though it may get loud at higher loads. Also, don't plan on overclocking it so the firmware upgrade to bios 032 is not necessary for me. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/27/13 |
Cons: Factory settings are whack. Requires some tweaking.
Pros: Great card. Probably can hold its own against the 660 ti. Comment:
A common complaint for this card is the heat and noise but with a bit of tweaking it can be completely irrelevant. The noise at high fan speed is the one thing you can't really help, but you can definitely manage the heat so it doesn't force the fan to blow hard.The factory set core voltage of this fan is ridiculously high, contributing to a ton of fast heat build up. It can be anywhere between 1188-1250ish mV. You can overclock this card AND you don't even need to be anywhere near these numbers. I recommend you find an overclocking software to reduce the core voltage to 950mV base, which would cool down this card on load big time. Currently running +8%power limit with 1150/1500 on 950mV. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/27/13 |
Cons: Can run a little hotFan gets really lout about 70%Low ASIC qualityTakes a lot of power
Pros: Very fastOverclocks wellGreat price2GB of memory will serve anything up to 2560x1600Long but a single slot coolerCan be crossfired with another Tahiti GPU.Comes with Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider for free. Comment:
This card is a beast. For the 230$ I paid after rebates and shipping, it is definitely worth the money. At first I had some heat problems but I added 2 more fans to my case and made a collective push/pull sequence (cycle air in from front and back then exhaust through side). It overclocked well to 1225 core and 1550 memory, but nothing further. Plays any game I throw at it maxed out including Tomb Raider and Bio-shock, which coincidentally come free with it! I might have to pick up a second one if my pocket allows. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/23/13 |
Cons: -Only 2 year warranty.. but whatever-Not many accessories, again not a big deal
Pros: -Fast-OCs well-No coil whine!-Great price-Doesn't feel cheap at all Comment:
Great card, OC'ed well, currently at 1175 and 1550. Way better than my old 4870. Great price. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/19/13 |
Cons: -Despite the custom cooling design (there is no reference 7870 Tahiti), 'direct touch heatpipe' or whatever nonsense, accoustics are mediocre at best for an 'aftermarket' solution-Temps could be better again, for an aftermarket solution. Forum posts seem to indicate that you can drop temps 15-20C by reapplying the TIM, but I don't think thats worth voiding warranty over-Power draw is sometimes worse than a 7950. That is abysmal.-Box might as well be empty, theres no useful packaging or cables inside. No crossfire bridge. The quick start guide doesn't actually explain correctly how to install the card, which would be problematic for actual first time users who need it.-Only a single DVI port which could be annoying for some people.-Single DVI port can be annoying for some people.-Many overclocking problems, detailed in summary
Pros: -Price/performance 5/5-Overall performance. Sometimes you will clear 1GB of VRAM but you will rarely if ever get close to the 2GB. Makes 7950's 3GB seem very superfluous.-Decent acoustics relative to all GPUs, including reference designs Comment:
I game on 1920x1200. With a 4.7 Ghz 2500k, you can max most games; Skyrim seemed to be flawless with every setting maxed. However, the noise output under load leaves much to be desired for an 'aftermarket' heatsink. The high power draw and mediocre temperature further weaken the strengths of this card. Another issue is the de facto overclock ceiling which hurts the price/performance of the card when comparing value max OC vs max OC (don't expect >1150, contrary to reviews). Finally, there is nothing of use in the box.You may have seen some review sites claim to have 1200 Mhz - I can almost guarantee that it isn't 'stable'. Not just because they may have gotten cherry picked engineering samples - in fact I doubt they did. You may have seen in the reviews that while overclocked, the card's clockspeed may fluctuate between 975 (stock clock during load) and the overclock target value (in this case, 1200). This is because the values are ACTUALLY changing - hindering your performance. This is a problem with sending enough power to the core.First up, I tested 1200, straight out of the box with Unigen Heaven. After about 1.5 minutes, I noticed a few minor artifacts. I went down to 1175, and it seemed to be okay. But on further testing, it was jumping between that and 975. I maxed the power limit (+20%). Suddenly I was artifacting like crazy at 1175. Horrendous at 1200. Even 1150 quickly turned out artifacts within a minute. My framerate also showed a minor, but definite increase. The 1200 you see in reviews definitely aren't indicative of a stable OC. I'm pretty sure I know why there weren't many benches done at 1200 - the performance difference, while was there, was way below what was expected, and probably not published. Perhaps the editors even thought it was a problem on their own end, or because of nascent drivers. That is not the case - their OC isn't working at full stability. YMMV, but apparently I'm already lucky; there are plenty of people who have their games straight up crash at little beyond 1100. I'd definitely not expect 1200 to be stable without voltage tweaking. Most people on OCN with 1200 are doing it as a bench clockspeed only; knowing full well that it is not gaming stable.NCIX had some service issues with this order. I placed an order while it was in stock; but I was told it was on back order the next day. I had to wait 4 weeks for my card, in which Tomb Raider had already been released, and the general value of the games have dropped dramatically. It was also confusing when it came to the MIR; I had to have NCIX make a new invoice for me. It also took a LOT of emails and calls to get to NCIX; atypical considering my experiences over the years. However, they did make it up to me, and while they did pull through in the end, my past two experiences with NCIX have been mediocre at best. (this has no bearing on the 3/5 rating)If I can, I will edit this review if anything major changes. This review was modfied by poster @ 03-19-13 02:41 AM |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/15/13 |
Cons: Card is large but otherwise none so far
Pros: FASTQUIET - compared to my old ATI4870AT 1080p all my games are set to the max and play is smooth Comment:
Had an old ATI4870 and this is WAY faster than it. NCIX shipped quickly - good experience. Card, so far, works flawlessly. Only caveat is it was quite a bit longer than my old 4870 so I had to make a minor mod to my Antec case to get it in. Otherwise smiles across the board. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/11/13 |
Cons: Strange Name. It should be called a 7930 but I think they know some people would rather buy a card that was call **70 then **30
Pros: Good Price point for performance. Comment:
Great card for the money.Going from a GTX9800+ to this card made a noticeable difference even before increasing in game settings.I may crossfire in the future and will need to be sure to get a second compatible card as this card uses the same graphic chip as the 7900 series and not the chip from the 7800.I have overclocked to just under what reviews where able to clock to on both GPU and memory and had no problem with using for hours of gaming and could not hear the fan when case was on. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/10/13 |
Cons: Fan at 100% is definitely audible
Pros: Good acoustics, Overclocks well, Good price, decent temps Comment:
Just picked up this card yesterday...my first card going into the gaming scene. I'm in amazement, no lower then 55fps on bf3 on ultra. This card's a beast! Stays under 70C on near to full load. At lowest fan setting, 25%, fan is inaudible. Auto fan control never ramps it over 50%. At 50% the fan is audible but not annoying, 100% however, it is quite loud, even with a closed case, but not necessary for gaming. Reviews compare it to a 660 ti, for a cheaper price, who wouldn't go for it, got it for $234.99 + $20 MIR, can't go wrong! The overclocking is excellent on this card, reviews got it to 1.2ghz stable w/o voltage tweak; currently at 1ghz. Memory overclocks to 130mhz above stock. Overall amazing card for the price, performance, noise, etc. Lving it so far! |
This card is basically 7870 with 7900 chip on it.I also have asus 7950 both card perform almost the same.I play borderlands 2 and Call of duty with ease.The only major difference is the cooler on this card. I hate the stock coolers. They do the job but the card runs a little hotter.I would buy this card again regardless of the single fan heat sink.Wait for the card to go on sale. its well worth buying.