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Product ReviewsASUS Radeon HD 7870 1.0GHZ 2GB 4.8GHZ GDDR5 CrossFireX DVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E DX 11 Video Card
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 Rating: Review Date: 10/22/13  |
Cons: Needs 2 PCI-E 6 pin power connectors
Pros: Cool and quiet |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/17/13 |
Cons: I knew the R7 and R9 were coming out, but didn't know it was just right around the corner. Good thing that the R9 270X is just a rebadged Pitcairn XT with overclocked specs. At $209 before tax I saved a bit of money with included games if you think about it that way, but that's not why I did it. I just lucked out, but I don't regret it.
Pros: -quiet-cool-more performance Comment:
I would have bought the R9 270X knowing that they were just about to have them for purchase. No regrets though.Bought it to play Battlefield 4 with better quality settings. My 6850 would have held up, but I wouldn't have enjoyed the game as much. I still have a 1680x1050 monitor, so I don't know what the performance is like on 1080p. I'm sure there's no noticeable difference.Frame rate is fine even with PCIE 2.0 and a 965 overlocked to 3.8GHz with the northbridge at 2.6GHz.A+ card |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/16/13 |
Cons: No cons identified
Pros: Good performanceGood price/performancePerfect for 1080P on budget Comment:
Got this for my gf's backup computer. Performance is solid (ran Metro Last Light, WoW, and LoL no problem) |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/30/13 |
Cons: Dont have any yet :)
Pros: Faster then my old card stays very cool Comment:
Bought it to replace an old nvidia card and so far I love it stays way cooler and runs everything i play :) |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/19/13 |
Cons: None
Pros: Good price, silent, good price Comment:
This GPU is very silent even at full load with low idle and max temperature. Prob one of better brand to buy since asus one goes on sale often. Also, it looks cool with those heatpipes |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/01/13 |
Cons: Priced similar to the GTX 760
Pros: Fast and Quiet Comment:
I suggest buyers to just get the Gtx 760, because the price is similar, the 760 is newly release and might even outperform the this card. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/29/13 |
Cons: Massive card.
Pros: Great perfromance and Cooling looks fancy. Excellent game bundle. Comment:
This card performs very well when gaming with it at all times i can run games on Max or very, very close. I will usually have 50-60 FPS as well. Very good deal. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/17/13 |
Cons: weird "gap" between rear bracket and heatsink shield (does not affect performance in any way)
Pros: fast enough for my needs, big improvement (synthetic benches) over my previous card Comment:
I held off upgrading my Gigabyte 6850OC until prices were within reason for my needs. I don't actually play demanding games (except the occasional wow, d3 and starcraft) - so as you can see, even an the older card was more than sufficient. Anyway, The card went on sale for $235 (with $190 worth of games via AMD Never Settle bundles and an MIR of $20). With everything said and done, the card itself is only $25. I had one machine that I wanted to upgrade the video card. It was running a HD6450 with 512MB DDR3 and wanted to get either a 7750-7790 for that machine. Moving the 6850 to that machine further justified my purchase of the new asus card.I would have preferred a Gigabyte card but I wanted to retain my current connectivity of two DVI and a full size DP. Most of the current gen Gigabyte cards only had one DVI connector.I was also somewhat leaning on getting a Nvidia card (either a 660 or 660Ti) but both card were significantly more expensive than the Asus 7870. Performance gains and differences were negligible for my needs so the bundle price was definitely the decision maker.Performance-wise compared to the Gigabyte 6850OC, synthetic bench using furmark (1.10.6) almost yield double the results at both 1080 and 720 resolutions.One strange behavior I noticed was that with the 6850OC (memory usage hovered around 965-980 MB with GPU-Z (0.7.1)while running Furmark benches, while the dedicated memory usage for the 7870 was always below 275MB. Both Gigabytes (windforce) and Asus (DirectCUII) provide comparable cooling performance. The 6850 never exceeded 69C while the 7870 never went over 71C (ambient temps may account for the slight difference, so I consider those temperatures equal.AMD Control center reports a GPU clock slider up to 1400MHz (from a base 1000MHz), Memory clock up to 1450 (from a 1200MHz base) and a -20 to +20% power slider. Naturally these are reference settings and YMMV when it comes to overclocking.The 7870 comes with a crossfire bridge, a driver disc, a d-sub adapter and a 6-pin extension. I find this last piece kind of strange since it merely extends an existing 6-pin pcie cable from your power supply by another 6 inches. The card itself requires 2 six-pin connectors and most decent power supplies will not need the extension. I could probably understand if they included a double 4-pin molex to 6 pin converter for those with a power supply that did not have enough pcie plugs. This should theoretically work although not recommended.The card itself has two LEDs on the pcie power connectors. If sufficient power is supplied or the correct connections are made, both will light-up yellow. There is also a support along the upper edge of the card to impart rigidity to the relatively heavy card.A 30-minute run of furmark burn in resulted in a usage of 99W. A 15% overclock added another 10W to the equation as reported by furmark. This was definitely more efficient than my 6850OC which required at least 127W at stock speeds.Bottomline: the bundles and value added features of the card makes the 7870 one of the best values out there in terms of relative performance. I'm loyal to neither a ATI/AMD nor NVidia (For the midrange category - I currently own GTS450, GTX650Ti, HD5770, HD6850 on several machines) the 7870 is the latest addition and while it's not the latest and the best, my needs do not require a high end card. For me, purchase depends on what's currently the best value and performance for the buck. This review was modfied by poster @ 06-18-13 12:27 AM |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/07/13 |
Cons: N/A
Pros: good price, quiet, Comment:
I finally replaced my my old graphic card when this one went one sale. It is a great card. It performs as expected. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/27/13 |
Cons: needs a water cooling solution to control temperature of the gpu
Pros: running 3 24" Samsung monitors does the job Comment:
runs stable overclock but temperature is high in eyefinity |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/19/13 |
Cons: none
Pros: Looks greatTwo fansEasy to installGREAT performance Comment:
Got this bad boy on sale for $234.99 with the mail in rebate, plug and play, and trust me when I say the pictures don't do it justice. This is a hefty card that looks great, and performs even better for a card less than $300. Plays FarCry 3, EVE Online, and Battlefield 3 all on Ultra settings at 60 FPS steady. I am running the single card, and have 2 24" Samsung LED monitors, and there seems to be no sign of it slowing down. I'm planning to add another one of these in a month or so. For now running the single card I have zero trouble.My setup:AMD FX-8350 CPUASRock Extreme 3 Motherboard8GB Corsair Vengeance RAMCoolermaster GX750 PSU |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/11/13 |
Cons: -none so far
Pros: -gives great performance with games such as league and WoW at max and still gives great performance with games like bioshock infinite at very high (ultra has some dips)-Stays very cool (even while playing bioshock)-Seems very quiet while I game (may be different for noise freaks) Comment:
I've been using this for about 7months running no issues with it as of now, ive been playing alot of bioshock infinite and league of legends and yet everything has been going smoothly. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/12/13 |
Cons: a pain to get working correctly in Windows 8
Pros: Great looking, powerful and quiet Comment:
Great looking, powerful and quiet video card but it was a pain to get working correctly in Windows 8. Lot's of safe-mode manipulation until I could get the latest ASUS drivers installed. No problems now.Also received the 'Never Settle' bundle including Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider. It was also a royal battle getting the Steam client to install in Windows 8 until I figured out how to run the .msi file (Windows installer) from a command line instead of automatically. Once Steam was installed, the games downloaded and installed without an issue. Maybe I should have stuck with Windows 7... |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/01/13 |
Cons: Large
Pros: PowerfulQuiet Comment:
Great card. I only play league but it runs it at max settings with constant 60 FPS. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/30/13 |
Cons: none
Pros: Excellent GPU from ASUS Comment:
Excellent GPU by ASUS, runs quite cool, highly recommended |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/24/13 |
Cons: mouse pointer corruption issues. A quick search on the web is telling me it's on ongoing issue.
Pros: Amazing price for such product. Comment:
At this price range, it's very hard to beat (209)the only thing that bother me is my mouse pointer being corrupt.I tried many different driver, can't seem to get rid of it. I will try removing the mouse trailing and see if it's getting rid of it otherwise I'll be stock waiting for AMD to come up with a driver fixing it. I'll be very generous, 4 stars mainly because it was the best deal available at this price range.update 11/09/2012:After spendind some time with my pointer irritation issue, I found a fix that is satisfying. Simply enabling the mouse trailing tail fonction, it fixed itself. I did use the latest AMD beta driver, now everything works the way it should. I think I'll be now able to enjoy my new purchase, very happy. In the end, I advise you buy whatever your budget allows you to regardless of if it's an Nvidia or AMD. They both provide competitive products with each + andf - in both camps. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/21/13 |
Cons: none
Pros: fastpricequality Comment:
good price/performance , nice llok , good waranty , really good performance in game |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/20/13 |
Cons: FastSmallCool design ConsNot fast enough ! The speed doesn't approaches real numbers ! SummaryThe SSD came with latest firmware. I've installed it easily in the case plugged it in the right port for 6.0G then put the right SATA cable written 6.0 G on it. Then I've installed my windows 7 on it and ran some test. The ATTO test gave me: 300 mb/s for both write and read. I've also ran crystal disk Mark and it also gives me 300 mb/s max. I Haven't been able to exceed this speed. I've double-checked cables and port to be sure and everything is in place. So I've gotta say I'm disappointed by this SSD. Doesn't live up to it's speed. You're way better of with an Intel 520 if you ask me.
Pros: FastSmallCool design ConsNot fast enough ! The speed doesn't approaches real numbers ! SummaryThe SSD came with latest firmware. I've installed it easily in the case plugged it in the right port for 6.0G then put the right SATA cable written 6.0 G on it. Then I've installed my windows 7 on it and ran some test. The ATTO test gave me: 300 mb/s for both write and read. I've also ran crystal disk Mark and it also gives me 300 mb/s max. I Haven't been able to exceed this speed. I've double-checked cables and port to be sure and everything is in place. So I've gotta say I'm disappointed by this SSD. Doesn't live up to it's speed. You're way better of with an Intel 520 if you ask me. Comment:
FastSmallCool design ConsNot fast enough ! The speed doesn't approaches real numbers ! SummaryThe SSD came with latest firmware. I've installed it easily in the case plugged it in the right port for 6.0G then put the right SATA cable written 6.0 G on it. Then I've installed my windows 7 on it and ran some test. The ATTO test gave me: 300 mb/s for both write and read. I've also ran crystal disk Mark and it also gives me 300 mb/s max. I Haven't been able to exceed this speed. I've double-checked cables and port to be sure and everything is in place. So I've gotta say I'm disappointed by this SSD. Doesn't live up to it's speed. You're way better of with an Intel 520 if you ask me. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/19/13 |
Cons: USB portsCustoms firmwares available ConsStock firmware SummaryI got this roouter to replace an old Linksys WRT54GL and add GBPS capability to my home network.I had some issues with the stock firmware, but after installing EasyTomato firmware, I didn't get any problem.
Pros: USB portsCustoms firmwares available ConsStock firmware SummaryI got this roouter to replace an old Linksys WRT54GL and add GBPS capability to my home network.I had some issues with the stock firmware, but after installing EasyTomato firmware, I didn't get any problem. Comment:
USB portsCustoms firmwares available ConsStock firmware SummaryI got this roouter to replace an old Linksys WRT54GL and add GBPS capability to my home network.I had some issues with the stock firmware, but after installing EasyTomato firmware, I didn't get any problem. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/19/13 |
Cons: None yet
Pros: PriceFairly quiet Free games!!! Way better than Nvidia's freetoplay credit Comment:
I haven't had it long yet, but it's great so far. Running ULTRA in BF3 is smooth even with my dated E6600 x 3.6GHz. Haven't had a chance to OC yet, but it looks very simple.I got 3 free games including Far Cry 3, Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider. Each retails for like $60 so I'm very pleased with this. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/16/13 |
Cons: MIR is a pain!Takes 2 slots
Pros: Silent designGood performance at a good priceEyefinityGaming bundle Consgood sleek love asus Comment:
This card is appropriate for gaming at 1080p resolution. The latest drivers boost significantly the performance. However, my CrossfireX has not been really good due to performance issues.I was nervous whether this card would fit into my case due its large size. It turns out that it fits just right. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/16/13 |
Cons: only if ur a nvidia fanboy
Pros: great product great price Comment:
cant beat this price for profmance that it deliverssteadily 60 fps on most intensive games |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/04/13 |
Cons: not much to say because you won;t notice it
Pros: A very good product, good price, very affordable, very satisfied Comment:
A very good product, good price, very affordable, very satisfied |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/30/12 |
Cons: MIR is a pain!Takes 2 slotsIssues with CrossfireX
Pros: Silent designGood performance at a good priceEyefinityGaming bundle Comment:
This card is appropriate for gaming at 1080p resolution. The latest drivers boost significantly the performance. However, my CrossfireX has not been really good due to performance issues.I was nervous whether this card would fit into my case due its large size. It turns out that it fits just right. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/28/12 |
Cons: none
Pros: fast and cool Comment:
Very good GPU. It's fast, quiet and stays cool, also I like the many different connections for a multi monitor setup. |
Upgraded from the 5770 to 7870, ASUS makes the best cards, this card lowered my system temperature by 5-8 degrees C and lowered my idle wattage by 30 watts. This card's heat sink not only looks cool, it runs cool and very quiet. I am very happy with this card, ASUS makes the best cards. Came with 2 Steam games (Never Settle Forever Radeon Promo).