Radeon 7850 2GB = $119.99 A/R

[RaistlinZ]

Reviews are kinda hit and miss, but if you don't mind rebates this is a nice deal on an aftermarket 7850 with 2GB VRAM.

$149.99 - $30 rebate = $119.99

 

[nwo]

In for one earlier, I had a $10 promo gift card, and I have a spare slot in one of my mining rigs

 

[SunnyD]

The fans on these absolutely suck.

 

[nwo]

The fans on these absolutely suck.

Can't be worse than the XFX (7 series) fans, could it?

Then there's always an RMA option, free to those like myself who have shop runner :awe:

 

[daveybrat]

Personally i'd rather have the ECS Nvidia GTX 660 2GB card that was linked by nwo:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814134166

ECS GTX660A-2GR5-WFM GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card

$139.99 w/$3.99 shipping and NO rebates to deal with.

Lowest price i've ever seen for a GTX 660 without rebates.

 

[nwo]

If I was shopping for a gaming card, there is no doubt I'd much rather opt for that GTX 660 over this 7850.

I'm willing to take my chances with this 7850 and see what kind of mining performance I can get out of it

 

[finglobes]

I've had this card for three months and its been great. I upgraded from a AMD 4850. When the 4850 was new 80c was the "normal" temp at idle and the fan sounded like a hair dryer. I had to put an Accelero on it (that dropped temps to around 50C and was silent). I expected to have to mod fan on this but I barely hear it with case open and my face in the guts. Temps are idle are around 25c. Don't think I've ever gone over 40c or 40% fan (maybe when it gets warmer weather wise). Reading Newegg reviews I see people saying fan can't be controlled with software but I've done it fine with Speedfan My only complaint is 3 months latter and I still haven't got the rebate despite fact my forms went in early and show as registered at PowerColor site.

 

[cubeless]

got one and it runs so cool that the fan hardly needs to run... i am old and deaf, but i don't even hear the fan over an amd copper heatpipe heatsink... the rebate is kind of a cha cha, but that's just par for the course... i may grab a second on on the new rebate to double up... you can't really touch the price performance on this... and the 660 is oos...

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I'm really starting to hate all of these rebate deals now. What happened to straight sales?

 

[wowsza]

the fan on these are terrible, but they are above average mining cards i'd say when it comes to 7850's.

 

[neocpp]

(If this is not the right place for this, my apologies, and please let me know to remove it.)

I'd been looking to replace my old gtx 470; a guy from work is willing to sell me his msi 7970 for 300, which seems like a reasonable price considering the markup from mining, but do you think this 7850 is a better deal? I've been relatively happy with the performance of the gtx 470, but the card is starting to fail. A quick search tells me that they are relatively similar except the 7850 uses about half the power.

 

[nwo]

(If this is not the right place for this, my apologies, and please let me know to remove it.)

I'd been looking to replace my old gtx 470; a guy from work is willing to sell me his msi 7970 for 300, which seems like a reasonable price considering the markup from mining, but do you think this 7850 is a better deal? I've been relatively happy with the performance of the gtx 470, but the card is starting to fail. A quick search tells me that they are relatively similar except the 7850 uses about half the power.

Well if you were happy with the performance of the GTX 470 then I'd recommend going with the 7850. No reason to spend double. 300 is a decent price for a 7970 but I expect new 280X's to reach that point within a month or so. Some sites already have them on backorder for ~$300.

If you can find another deal on the 7850 and grab one for ~$100, I would definitely recommend that over spending 300 on a used 7970.

 

[neocpp]

Thanks, that was what I was leaning towards. I don't like dealing with rebates though, so I may just wait to snag a deal. I also didn't realize the 280x's are going down to around 300, last time I checked they were still 350+.

 

[nwo]

In case anyone cares, I was able to achieve 400kH/s on this 7850. You just gotta go all out on the engine clock speed. Leave VRAM at 1200 or bump it up to 1250 for a few more khs, +20 powertune, stock voltage (1.219), and 1170 engine clock speed. Increasing engine clock speed seems to yield a linear hashrate increase.

The card runs surprisingly cool and silent considering I have it above my 7950. Any previous card I put in it's place would easily go above 90*C (with the exception of the reference 7970). I had an XFX 7870, 7870 LE, 7850 all overheat badly while being the top card.

I have to say I'm impressed. The fan is not very noisy either. Just kind of annoyed that I cannot control the fan speed, but it seems to be very good on its own.

Edit 2: This thing gets 400+ kH/s with only 16 Intensity which gives me no input lag... How sad is it that a 7850 outperforms all my 7870s??? At 1220/1250 clocks with 18 Intensity I am pulling above 420kH/s

Edit 3: 1250/1250 430kH/s... At this point I am afraid to go any higher since my temps are ~90*C

I definitely was not expecting this card to pull these kind of numbers, especially not after reading all the negative reviews from newegg and this thread.