350 Euro Video card recommendations?

trackerman

Looking to spend 350 Euro on a good Video card that will run quite but with good overclock ability..?

Thanks

Eboggles

trackerman wrote: »

Looking to spend 350 Euro on a good Video card that will run quite but with good overclock ability..?

Thanks

HD7950.

ShadowHearth

Eboggles wrote: »

HD7950.

7950 royal king and keep the change for drugs, sluts, sugar, weed, alcohol.

trackerman

My Royal died and went back! and it was built like crap.

Looing at ASUS HD7950-DC2T-3GD5, runs nice and cool...

trackerman

Whats the deal with 3GB vs 2GB of memory.... do games really need the 3GB?

Running a Catleat at 2560x1440, 60hz...

For example, is a 660ti at 2Gb going to be better for me that a 7950 at 3Gb, assuming both can be overclocked...

glynf

MSI R7950 Twin Frozr and the Sapphire Vapor-X 7950 OC would be worth a look as both have excellent coolers. €350 yoyo's puts you in the GTX670 territory as well though.


Edit:

Most games don't use more than 2GB unless you are running multi monitor, 2GB version is plenty @ 2560x1440. Go with two cards in SLI/crossfire with multiple monitors and 2GB could be a bottleneck since VRAM doesn't stack. I read somewhere that some games play smoother with extra VRAM as the game engine will often use the extra memory to pre-load textures etc.

marco_polo

trackerman wrote: »

My Royal died and went back! and it was built like crap.

Looing at ASUS HD7950-DC2T-3GD5, runs nice and cool...

May i ask what you found poor about it, it has got some excellent reviews behind it, if anything the HD7950 DC 2 some widely reported problems with the massive cooler being far too heavy and losing proper contact with the GPU.

trackerman

marco_polo wrote: »

May i ask what you found poor about it, it has got some excellent reviews behind it, if anything the HD7950 DC 2 some widely reported problems with the massive cooler being far too heavy and losing proper contact with the GPU.

I thought it was poor build quality because the heatsink was not well attached to the board very well, it wobbled and seemed like a weakspot.
By constrast my old GTX8800 is a tank.

ShadowHearth

Maybe dodgy royal king? Did you tried getting replacement for same one?

marco_polo

Was reading a very good review of the latest HIS IceQ the other day might be a decent alternative.

http://www.pureoverclock.com/Review-detail/his-7950-iceq-x2/

trackerman

Just received the ASUS HD7950-DC2T-3GD5 v2...

All i can say is NICE, beats the socke off the Club and at only 20 quid extra, it's well worth it.
Build like a tank, runs silent, and can OC to well over 1050MHz...