XFX 5870 vid card

[scarletNcream]

I went with the Radeon HD 6870 very nice budget card with 2 DVI, one HDMI and one Display port. Very happy with the AMD setup. No VGA. The 660 Ti is a nice card too. The 6870 comes with overclocking software "Trixx" that makes tweeking easy for any level of user.

[strigori]

Though as a rule, you should never tamper with the clocks on your computer unless you really know what you are doing, and have ideally upgraded all the cooling. Too much risk of cooking the parts for the small gains.

[scarletNcream]

Though as a rule, you should never tamper with the clocks on your computer unless you really know what you are doing, and have ideally upgraded all the cooling. Too much risk of cooking the parts for the small gains.

This, in no way attempt overclocking without prior knowledge and sufficient cooling.

[rawhide]

Finally got the cpu cooler fan from China. It's amazing how hot the cpu tower gets without a fan . Was kinda hopin it would fry to facilitate an upgrade to i5/7 cpu and mobo. Oh well. Crysis 3 runs good on the new 7950 card with all settings at maximum, and that's without loading the amd catalyst package onto windows???? who knew.

[VectorVictor]

Finally got the cpu cooler fan from China. It's amazing how hot the cpu tower gets without a fan . Was kinda hopin it would fry to facilitate an upgrade to i5/7 cpu and mobo. Oh well. Crysis 3 runs good on the new 7950 card with all settings at maximum, and that's without loading the amd catalyst package onto windows???? who knew.

 

Good to hear.

 

I just ordered the 2GB version of the 7850 myself--I'll have to try running it w/o installing the AMD catalyst package and see if I get as good of results as you.