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[Magic Carpet]

Edit: @Magic Carpet long time no see

I am always around 😎

great card but had a bunch of bad reviews on the double D and overclocking

I dunno man, 86% of the reviews are positive. Do you pay attention to the barking dogs when you pass a street?

Ok i just got a BNIB Sapphire HD 6950 2GB OC so excited

Excited about what? That you got last-gen tech? Or was it just a good deal? D:

 

[Durvelle27]

I am always around 😎

Never seen you

I dunno man, 86% of the reviews are positive. Do you pay attention to the barking dogs when you pass a street?

not newegg reviews actual card reviews like Techpowerup

Excited about what? That you got last-gen tech? Or was it just a good deal? D:

Well its a upgrade from my HD 4870 1GB that's why i'm excited

 

[moonbogg]

Ok i just got a BNIB Sapphire HD 6950 2GB OC so excited

Congrats! You will see a world of difference and playing games will be fun all over again. See you on the battlefield.

 

[Durvelle27]

Congrats! You will see a world of difference and playing games will be fun all over again. See you on the battlefield.

XD but gotta wait two days till i can play again unless i wanna play with on board graphics which is AMD HD 4200

 

[Magic Carpet]

Never seen you

That's easy to fix, next time you're on a trip to Europe, please let me know.

not newegg reviews actual card reviews like Techpowerup

So, Mr Wizard didn't like this particular design. That's just one reviewer man.

Well its a upgrade from my HD 4870 1GB that's why i'm excited

My 4870 X2 died last year, it was such a loud, hot but a fast caaaar. How much was that 6950? 7850 costs about the same money but is much more technological (I'd pay that slight premium just for the ZeroCore tech alone, tbh).

But what's done is done... enjoy your card, go frag the terrorists in Counter Strike 😎

 

[Durvelle27]

That's easy to fix, next time you're on a trip to Europe, please let me know.

might visit 🙂

So, Mr Wizard didn't like this particular design. That's just one reviewer man.

was just an example there were more they said it was harder to get a high oc like 1200MHz were as with the sapphire oc and TF3 had no problem

My 4870 X2 died last year, it was such a loud, hot but a fast caaaar. How much was that 6950? 7850 costs about the same money but is much more technological (I'd pay that slight premium just for the ZeroCore tech alone, tbh).

But what's done is done... enjoy your card, go frag the terrorists in Counter Strike 😎

Got it for $150 so i don't think a HD 7850 could have been had for $150 new 🙂

 

[Magic Carpet]

Got it for $150 so i don't think a HD 7850 could have been had for $150 new 🙂

Dollar talks, I see. Can't blame you.

Post a few benchmarks, when you are ready. Thanks :thumbsup:

 

[Durvelle27]

Dollar talks, I see. Can't blame you.

Post a few benchmarks, when you are ready. Thanks :thumbsup:

I'll do that as soon as i get it 🙂 and yes dollars talk XD

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Got it for $150 so i don't think a HD 7850 could have been had for $150 new

Great price, and no, you can't get a 7850 for that just yet.

 

[Durvelle27]

Great price, and no, you can't get a 7850 for that just yet.

:thumbsup: 😀

 

[Durvelle27]

Just bought some CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600MHz RAM but now i'm having second thoughts because i don't know if it will block my Hyper 212+

 

[Yuriman]

There really is no reason for huge heatspreaders on DDR3 1600, they don't even get warm to the touch.

If you can still cancel the order, do so and grab some of the Samsung 30nm DDR3. It's cheaper and much faster.

Thread with some info:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2266467

Link to ram:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&SID=u00000687

I personally opted for G.Skill Sniper 1.25v DDR3, it runs above its rated speed and 1.25v is nice for cutting power consumption.

 

[Durvelle27]

what about between these two

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145315

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820226095


edit: I can't cancel the order as it was shipped

 

[Yuriman]

I'm pretty unimpressed with DDR3 that needs 1.5 or even 1.65v for 667mhz when there's ram in the same price range that can do the same at 1.25v (or lower), or can ramp up to around 1200mhz with the same volts.

I'm not sure how dependent AMD chips (without iGPUs) are on memory bandwidth though so it may be an irrelevant argument to begin with.

 

[Durvelle27]

the corsair can be clocked at 1600MHz but don't know about the mushkin

 

[Durvelle27]

card arrived today

 

[Durvelle27]

RAM just arrived