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22-11-2009 9:09pm#1
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I'd also drop the haf932/922. I ordered one a few weeks ago and sent it back right away, they are horribly cheaply put together. It's basicially a big budget lump of plastic. Now i've got to wait untill my 800D comes into stock
:eek: blasphemy sir!
They are actually a big lump of steel. The plastic is only on the front.
They look cheap all right, but their airflow, modding potential, tooless drive installation and cable management potential are class leading. And their build quality internally is actually pretty good, despite what Anti suggests!
Anti, you basically paid another €130 for a brushed aluminium front and hot swappable drives. The HAF's blows the 800D out of the water in almost every other regard.0 -
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Pfffftttt, i look down on your scrubnub plastic front case. Yes it has good airflow, but enjoy ripping your fingers to bits while working inside it. Yes the 800D is alot more expensive, but look at the features it has. And i dont need to get the inside of the case sprayed black like with the Haf's. Its not a bad case in terms of performance, but it just reaks of the pound shop to me
@leman. Ive been looking into getting the 5970's but i cant justify spending 1400€ on 2 of them at the moment, not this close to xmas. And it looks like ill have ot RMA one of the 5870's either the fan aint working, or the whole backplate/hsf has someone come loose as its sitting at 89c on idle atm
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Listen to Leman. Nothing has detonated on him so he's doing something right!
And while that HD5770 is decent value (cheapest one I've ever seen. By a big margin!) it'll only keep in touch with the HD4890 on games with low memory bandwidth requirements. If the game tends towards very intensive "shader shuffling" the crippled memory bus on the HD5770 will leave it miles behind the HD4890 (and possibly HD4870!) no matter how high you OC the GPU; the only way to relieve the stress in such a "problem game" is to pray that you can OC the GDDR5 even further and its probably already pretty high-strung - most modules on the market are 5GHz and the HD5770 has them at 4.8GHz at stock!0 -
Pfffftttt, i look down on your scrubnub plastic front case.
Scrubnub? SCRUBNUB? How dare you sir... If I knew what that rich man's high brow la-de-dah attempt at an insult meant i'd have a perfectly good comeback! But no, you even had to ruin that :mad:but enjoy ripping your fingers to bits while working inside it.
I know the finish on the steel isn't fantastic in places, but mine certainly wouldn't cut fingers (and hasn't thankfully). You must have had some bad luck then with CM quality control there@leman. Ive been looking into getting the 5970's but i cant justify spending 1400€ on 2 of them at the moment, not this close to xmas. And it looks like ill have ot RMA one of the 5870's either the fan aint working, or the whole backplate/hsf has someone come loose as its sitting at 89c on idle atm
Hmmm, a lot of these new 5xxx seem to be having fan problems. Seen a number of people on other forums report having to have RMA'd their brand new 5970 after the fans came loose. Possibly a design fault? ATI seemed to have rushed them to market for the season that's in it.0 -
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@leman. Ive been looking into getting the 5970's but i cant justify spending 1400€ on 2 of them at the moment, not this close to xmas. And it looks like ill have ot RMA one of the 5870's either the fan aint working, or the whole backplate/hsf has someone come loose as its sitting at 89c on idle atm
Aww man that sucks. Have you tried the oven bake trick? :pac::pac::pac:
See if you can diy fix it before RMAing it
Hell yeah! I am actually starting to think that it is because of my heavy heatsink and the fact I just bolted it down. The slightly higher pressure is ensuring the pins make contactListen to Leman. Nothing has detonated on him so he's doing something right!And while that HD5770 is decent value (cheapest one I've ever seen. By a big margin!) it'll only keep in touch with the HD4890 on games with low memory bandwidth requirements. If the game tends towards very intensive "shader shuffling" the crippled memory bus on the HD5770 will leave it miles behind the HD4890 (and possibly HD4870!) no matter how high you OC the GPU; the only way to relieve the stress in such a "problem game" is to pray that you can OC the GDDR5 even further and its probably already pretty high-strung - most modules on the market are 5GHz and the HD5770 has them at 4.8GHz at stock!
Yeah, the crippled memory bus is one of the reasons I am not too keen to get the 57xx. I'm more than likely gonna just pick up a cheap 9600 until the 5850s a) Drop in price and b) stop being rarer than hens teeth.0 -
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