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(More customer reviews)I upgraded from a GTX 460 Sonic Platinum (Palit-model) and I have really liked the improved frame rates while gaming. I remember having some slight lag with more intense games like Black Ops, Crysis, etc and this card took care of those problems. I also like the quality of the Radeon cards as they've been more smoother for me than many Geforce cards I've used over the past many years. Card of course is a bit longer, but cools fairly good. Keep in mind that some more intense games may run the card up in temps more. My card stayed between 71-74 while playing Metro 2033 for an extended period of time (manual fan speed set to 31% with MSI Afterburner). Fan also does get quite loud when above 31% in a manual configuration. Most other games I play, the card will stay between 51-53 from what I've seen. I'd recommend this card to others!
NOTICE: When installing the 10.11 drivers, for some reason they did not install properly and I was not prompted to restart once complete like I usually am. I did restart and nothing changed. I noticed that in my Device Manager it was still saying my graphics adapter was still on a standard VGA adapter. To fix this, I had to uninstall the 10.11 drivers, install the 10.10 drivers, and then from there, update with the 10.11 drivers and it worked...Rather interesting. I see that AMD just released their new 10.12 drivers. I plan to do a complete uninstall of my 10.11 drivers and will do a clean install with the 10.12 drivers...Hopefully I do not run into the same problem. Don't know if others have ran into this problem, but I am sharing this for piece of mind.
It'll be nice to see if they rebuild this card with ultra-durable VGA materials or make it part of their SOC series. I'm also waiting for Sapphire to make a Toxic version of the 6870 as I'm more a fan of Sapphire. Thus far, I like Gigabyte though.
(THIS REVIEW IS SIMILAR TO MY OTHER ONE ON NEWEGG, BUT REVISED SLIGHTLY)
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