Which 7870 to buy?

[3DVagabond]

I don't have a window on my case so I don't give two craps what a video card or anything else inside looks like. I'll never see it.

I look at things like cooling power, noise levels, manufacturer reputation for service and quality of electronic components used.

From my perspective it seems preposterous to even consider a video card's physical appearance one way or the other when making a purchasing decision.

If placing a Strawberry Shortcake doll inside my computer made it perform better I would have no issues doing that.

So you don't color coordinate your mobo/RAM/GPU? Shocking!

 

[lehtv]

Qualities I really worry about in my video card purchases

Really? I don't.

 

[jacktesterson]

Really? I don't.

Seems that way.

Who really cares about looks?

 

[Face2Face]

Seems that way.

Who really cares about looks?

You get that 7870 yet? I wanna see some numbers....

 

[jacktesterson]

You get that 7870 yet? I wanna see some numbers....

Will have it tomorrow! Coming from California to me on east coast in Canada.

 

[futurefields]

Well I got my 1080p monitor today and it turns out my 6850 is plenty powerful to play all my games on the highest settings (Diablo 3, Left 4 Dead 2, Fallout 3/New Vegas, Stalker, etc..) even with anti-aliasing enabled.

So I'm just gonna wait until next year or the 88xx from AMD before I upgrade.