ATI 5870 - Which One?

[vtcc93]

Has anyone done a round up of which 5870 board is the best? I am building my system in the next week or so and want to make sure that for basically the same coin I get the one with the best fans, etc.

Thanks,
VTCC93

 

[cbn]

Originally posted by: vtcc93
Has anyone done a round up of which 5870 board is the best? I am building my system in the next week or so and want to make sure that for basically the same coin I get the one with the best fans, etc.

Thanks,
VTCC93

I think they are all reference design at this point.

 

[bryanW1995]

xfx has double lifetime warranty (lifetime warranty transfers to 2nd owner), visiontek has lifetime warranty, asus and gigabyte have 3 year warranty, all others have one year warranty. otherwise they should all be identical.

 

[cbn]

Other than warranties....ASUS has the Voltage tweak software (which sounds pretty impressive to me). 1440 shaders @ 1050 Mhz is a lot of TFLOPs.

 

[lavaheadache]

I'm hoping the vapor x is coming out soon.

 

[faxon]

get the XFX. with double lifetime warranty, if for some reason it gets hosed hardcore by GT300 you can sell it easily without issue. personally i dont give a shit either way lol. i already have 2 :thumbsup:

 

[MegaWorks]

XFX

 

[MundoX]

MSI Cyclone.

 

[nicnas]

Originally posted by: lavaheadache
I'm hoping the vapor x is coming out soon.

The 5870 runs cool and is quiet but the vapor-x coolers should make that great product even better. The only downside of vapor-x coolers is dumping half of the hot air inside the case.
That's why i didn't buy 4890 vapor-x (one of the best price/performance/features cards before 5850 launch) but waiting for 5770 instead.

 

[Jacen]

Originally posted by: nicnas

Originally posted by: lavaheadache
I'm hoping the vapor x is coming out soon.

The 5870 runs cool and is quiet but the vapor-x coolers should make that great product even better. The only downside of vapor-x coolers is dumping half of the hot air inside the case.
That's why i didn't buy 4890 vapor-x (one of the best price/performance/features cards before 5850 launch) but waiting for 5770 instead.

My case cooling is more than adequate so the Vapor-X doesn't bother me much in that regard. Definitely looking forward to that card however, hoping to have some news in the coming days.

 

[GEOrifle]

Originally posted by: nicnas

Originally posted by: lavaheadache
I'm hoping the vapor x is coming out soon.

The 5870 runs cool and is quiet but the vapor-x coolers should make that great product even better. The only downside of vapor-x coolers is dumping half of the hot air inside the case.
That's why i didn't buy 4890 vapor-x (one of the best price/performance/features cards before 5850 launch) but waiting for 5770 instead.

5770 and 5750 are at NEWEGG allready.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...n%20HD%205000%20series