Capsule Review: Sapphire's Radeon HD 7870 Overclock Edition

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• Galidou - Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - link

  LOL CeriseCogburn, don't be such a mad fanboy... Answering to a simple inflammaroty sentence with a whole paragraph... Go buy a GTX 680 and throw eggs at AMD's headquarter like you were doing before commenting here :P

• Origin32 - Sunday, April 29, 2012 - link

  And another typical day at Anand. AMD fanboys accusing writers of being Intel fanboys and Nvidia fanboys accusing them of being AMD fanboys. lol

• Spunjji - Friday, May 11, 2012 - link

  It's tiring, isn't it.

• vicbee - Monday, April 30, 2012 - link

  Ya'll should just get a life. Seriously... most arguments revolve around $10-30 price difference and possibly 10 fps for similar card category. Yawn!
  
  Until last week I have a liquid cooled GTX285 until a transistors fried. I was kind of glad something happened because I wanted a newer card but just couldn't fathom taking my rig apart to uninstall the liquid circuit. And who in their right mind would buy a 2nd hand card with a liquid cooling add-on... problem solved.
  
  I've only owned higher end Nvidia cards so this time around I thought I'd try an AMD and got the Sapphire discussed in this article. It's a great card (like my Nvidia cards were great cards) and because it's an upgrade I get 20 fps more than with the old card. I did have a software install issue tied to a missing something .dll but on the 3rd download it solved itself. Problem solved now back to gaming...

• Autisticgramma - Monday, April 30, 2012 - link

  @CeriseCogburn. You doth protest too much.
  
  Next you'll be telling us that nVidia's Tegra 2 is better than the (new AMD card).
  
  nVidia Isn't innovating, its reacting to AMD offerings. (in the desktop graphics realm) Granted most of the cards are about 10% better, and about three months later for about the same price.
  
  When Fermi was released, it was obviously a data center add in card, the price, the heat and performance (for graphics) was outrageous.
  
  I Tend to agree with the nVidia fan boys that they're (nVidia) holding stuff back, kepler looks good on paper, and the point of availability has been pounded to death.
  
  If they can crush AMD, why don't they?
  
  I'd be happy to give them my money, if they weren't the lazy hare in this race.
  
  -gramma

• Stempy59 - Monday, May 7, 2012 - link

  Hmn, under clocked 680 still better, yeah the price is higher but they will be more available soon!

• Spunjji - Friday, May 11, 2012 - link

  Thank-you for that enlightening apples-to-oranges comparison. Meanwhile it was nice to see how AMD's second-tier card stacks up (better than its top-tier card, hilariously).