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Have a Sapphire 6870 card with a bad fan on it, out of warranty. All the fans I've found online have a 3-screw pattern with the screws 120 degrees apart, whereas this one bolts on with 4x 90 degrees. Anybody know where to find a fan for this so I can put it back to work?

Yeah, I was looking at that while I was on here, the miners seem to have kept the value of the 6870s up higher than I'd have expected. I'll have to dig into selling it while it's hot. Thanks, guys!

I haven't worried about driver sweeper since the last time I had to think about IRQs! I'd uninstall, reboot, install the new one and not worry about it unless I had something come up afterward. Modern drivers aren't written to break each other anymore.

Yep, the 270 has 2GB of RAM, and iirc they're both clocked similarly. I was bending toward the 270 for the power useage (as I'm running a pretty small power supply atm) and for future support of DX11/12 featuresets.

I've just gotten my hands on (from hand-me-down processes) an XFX R7 260X and a Sapphire 6870. My computer only has the power supply to run one, and I'm not sure which I should be using here. My understanding is that the 6870 has more horsepower behind it, but the R7 is going to have better...

My brother and I have both bought MSI cards for the last few years, and have had good experiences with them. He went from Sapphire to MSI, and hasn't had any drop in quality or any weirdness, either in gaming or mining (not overclocked though, so ymmv)