I bought a Sapphire 2GB 7850 a week ago, replaced a 4670 in my extremely budget-friendly rig.
Overclocked it from 860/1200 to 1050/1350 without a sweat. Doesn't really show in anything but benchmarks so I'm keeping it stock ATM.
Absolutely love this card, it's very very fast and quieter than I...
Furmark can be dangerous if you're dumb enough to do a Torture Test (or whatever it was called, Burn or Xtreme or something I think it was) with untested GPU and memory speeds on your video card.
Common sense. If you know you're pushing hard, downclock a bit and then run the test. And if...
Got a Thermaltake Pure Power, 600 watts I think my friend.
I've had it for around 4 years, never had much of a hungry system so I imagine all the capacitors inside are doing fine.
EDIT: It's this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817153042
Thanks for your input BTW dudes and dudettes on what CPU I should buy, but it's not gonna happen soon anyway...
I have other priorities and keep in mind I was doing fine with a 939 rig 4 months ago!
If it hadn't imploded I'd still be using it probably.
Yup, I can definitely notice my CPU runs out of juice in Deus Ex and other games, even with AA cranked and everything.
I bought this chip because I had to, I was short on cash and my old 939 rig went belly up so I needed a computer ASAP.
I'll try and buy an i7 once the prices come down a bit...
I bought a 2 GB Sapphire Radeon 7850 a few days ago, replacing an ancient Radeon 4670 512MB . Easily the biggest performance jump I've ever experienced in a computer!
I'm not that much of a gamer, but I went from a 1680x1050 to a 1920x1200 monitor and that was the nail on the coffin,
even...
Just noticed the 7850 is only 25% more expensive than the 6870, while potentially around 50% faster (with overclock)
Screw CPU bottlenecking. 7850 it is!
I'm excited, first time I'm ever buying a powerful card.
The 7870 is also twice the price, man... Too much for me.
The 7850 I could pay, but it's not much faster than the 6870 I think?
Though it seems it's an overclocking beast so maybe I could convince myself with that.
I think it should be OK with this processor by now-
I just bought my mobo/cpu/memory two weeks ago and I'm so ridiculously GPU limited it's not funny.
I definitely need a stronger GPU, the 4670 was OK in 2008 and I don't wanna spend much.
If the Pentium falls short then I'll sell it and buy an...
I have a decent PSU and I want to make this rig as fast as possible for gaming without spending too much.
I'll be playing at 1920x1080. I've seen some benchmarks and the 6870 seems to wipe the floor with the 7770... and they're almost the same price here.
I'll also buy another 4 GB stick...
Hey man,
I recently had a situation similar to yours, got lots of coil whine from my computer. It got the loudest AFTER closing anything that was graphic intensive, and it could last for 20 minutes. Voltage readings were odd sometimes too, very fluctuating.
I had a solid PSU (Thermaltake...
BTW, I'm using like I said a Hyper 212 Evo with my G630 and with the fan at 600 RPM the chip idles at 24°C and after 5 minutes of Orthos it reaches 36°C, while dead quiet.
Lovely numbers! So definitely for acoustic reasons it's a good choice, I'm amazed by how cool this chip runs.
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