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Pro's: FAST! crushes anything I throw at it with all settings maxed out both on the card and in the game.
Cons:Coil Whine! if you read a lot of forums around the net you will see several complaints about something called coil whine, it only does it when your in a game and some may mistake it for fan noise but you will hear a mild static whine or a loud buzzing. This is perfectly normal for higher voltage cards and I was lucky enough for it to go away on it's own. I was ready to take this back the same day but decided to play around with it and see what I could do. Once I maxed out everything on it and ran it in Crysis 2 for about an hour it went away.
Use AfterBurner and change the fan to about 40-45% this will cool things down and cover some of the noise, Run something graphic heavy for a bit and see if it goes away. I have read that one of the only ways to make it go away is to take it apart and use silicon on the coil.
Enough on that,
I upgraded from a 6870 and because it is only one generation up I did not expect a huge difference, what a surprise! This machine was a beast before but now it's just down right insane!
System Specs,
AMD Phenom II BE x4 3.4 GHZ OC'd to 3.8
16gb DDR3 1333
Asus EVO
Cooler Master Silent Pro 800w 80 plus gold
Cooler Master V6 GT
I was only going to give it 4 stars but because that annoying noise went away I gave it 5.
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