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Could you guys tell me what PSU would support one of these and say 2 in crossfire? Thanx!
I got my card yesterday and played Starcraft2 with it. I'll play crysis 2 today to see if I notice a big jump over my 6950 2gb unlocked to 6970. I plan to sell the old card and game coupon to have a free upgrade. So far I have been pleased, seems faster and not too much louder than my 6950. Overclocked to 1200ghz right off the bat without any noticeable problems, and seems cooler than my reference 6950 which got up to 80 degrees during gaming.
Could you guys tell me what PSU would support one of these and say 2 in crossfire? Thanx!
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TD has the Sapphire equivalent of this card for $220 AR. Don't see any free shipping outside their paid "club" program. However from the looks of it, the cooler seems superior to the MYST and easily worth the extra.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7670961
I submitted a price match with amazon. High taxes for me unfortunately.
http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Rade...ie=UTF8&qid=1363179908&sr=8-1&keywords=7870xt
Update: There is also this one, HOWEVER, I don't see the game bundle anywhere on that page.
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=80887&vpn=AX7870 2GBD5-2DHPPV2E&manufacture=PowerColor
Ok - got mine and replaced my old 460GTX with it. At first, was horrified to discover Borderlands 2 was stuttering at the same video settings my 460 didn't have a problem with - plus the fan was noisy as hell when running games; sounded like a B-17 spooling up for take-off. Went online and discovered a lot of people were having the same issues (as luck would have it, most of them ALSO had just upgraded to it from a 460 card; gave me a warm feeling there) - there were a variety of solutions offered; the first one I tried worked perfectly - just make sure you go to AMD's website and download and install the custom application profiles after installing the full Catalyst drivers for the card:
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx
From the description, I had thought "those are just for people running Crossfire setups", but they're not - I had also assumed the latest full Catalyst driver would have included them, but apparently it doesn't either. All I had to do was install them and everything's running smooth as glass on my system now, noticeably better video quality (able to run higher settings) and frame rate than my old 460 card. And the fan is running very quietly now too.
As for required PSU grunt for this card, I've got it sitting in an Antec Sonata case with a 500w PSU and it's working just peachy in there. Was worried about temps with that cooler, but as I said - now that I've got those profiles loaded, even under full graphic load, I've yet to hear the fan spin up above a very very low hum.
Final note: I am getting an exceedingly faint whine in my speakers that I didn't have with the 460 card, but RF issues like that are very rig specific, so YMMV.
The 13.2 Betas include the CAPS.
Update: There is also this one, HOWEVER, I don't see the game bundle anywhere on that page.
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=80887&vpn=AX7870 2GBD5-2DHPPV2E&manufacture=PowerColor
TD has the Sapphire equivalent of this card for $220 AR. Don't see any free shipping outside their paid "club" program. However from the looks of it, the cooler seems superior to the MYST and easily worth the extra.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7670961
How do you request Amazon to PM this? Their FAQ says they don't offer PM:
"With the exception of televisions, Amazon.com doesn't price-match with other retailers (including those who sell their items on our website)"
I game at 1440p, does it make sense for me to buy a second 7870 tahiti le. I have the money and feel like experimenting with crossfire a bit. I already have the powercolor myst and was thinking to pick up the sapphire version. If I am disappointed, I can choose which card to sell/keep.
Honestly though, I don't play any particular game that would be stressful enough yet, but I feel the itch.
Thoughts?
I'd atleast try it. I bought the myst and it only averages 43fps on the tomb raider benchmark on highest settings at 1920x1200. Thats overclocked to 1100 with a i7 920 @ 3.8.
Yes. You'll need it for the games out in the last couple months if you want to play at 60fps min. Put the sapphire on the inside.I game at 1440p, does it make sense for me to buy a second 7870 tahiti le. I have the money and feel like experimenting with crossfire a bit. I already have the powercolor myst and was thinking to pick up the sapphire version.
I went ahead and picked up this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131487
Appears to be the same as the myst but with a slightly different cooler (maybe just fan shroud).