Thread: vid card help / advice

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

Fry's.
Newegg.com - SAPPHIRE 100355-1GOCL Radeon HD 7850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card OC Version
That one looks beast for its price point.

hmm what about
Newegg.com - SAPPHIRE 100354OCL Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card
its slightly more but would it make that much more of a difference? and how do i tell if its compatable with the rest of my system

According to the benchmarks it's about 13% faster than the 7850... And the extra ram would help with textures and such. I'd say it's worth the extra 30 bux.

i'm more worried bout the reviews of crashes and the black lines but if i'm reading the review right if you turn your fan speed up its fine still then this um shop runner or whatever its called anyone use that is it really 30 days free no strings sounds to good to be true

Sounds like one of those things where they do a hard credit check, which is to say, not good.

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

Sounds like one of those things where they do a hard credit check, which is to say, not good.

yeah always a catch i dunno what my score is l bout 4 years ago it was in the 600 range i think

bump to see if anyone has experince with this card

Well did you tried replacing the thermal paste on your CPU?
I see a lot of similarities with the problem i had couplle of months ago. Try cleaning your CPU cooler and clean the thermal paste of the cpu and apply a new one. I am pretty sure that wil fix it.

Originally Posted by Kill8ox

Well did you tried replacing the thermal paste on your CPU?
I see a lot of similarities with the problem i had couplle of months ago. Try cleaning your CPU cooler and clean the thermal paste of the cpu and apply a new one. I am pretty sure that wil fix it.

could try it but i tried to take off the cpu fan once to clean couldnt get the damn thing off afriad of breaking it still need to find some can air or a compressor really sucks not a single gas station in town has a working compressor and a 10$ can of air just isnt enough

got the cpu fan off cleand it beat i could without compressed air still nothing and it does need themal paste but thats just a heat issue shouldnt keep it from booting up/ display?

so if all 3 fans are running the little light bulbs lighting my PSU should be working just trying to narrow it down to the vid card before pulling the trigger on monday

bump again anyone have or used to have this card i just dont know from the reviews if its reliable