Best Radeon 7850?

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I recently purchased a 7950 For my workstation.It came with two free games which my nephew is playing on my old 8800gt rig.It is slow as hell but where i live it's playable.Hell,I played crysis 1 on my Integrated geforce7100.averaged around 5-7 FPS but i still completed it.

Turns out you can't play crysis 3 in the 8800gt and My Rigs are strictly off limits to children.My spare rig is just gathering dust ATM,and i am thinking of buying a new Card just so that the kid won't bug me.After considerable research HD7850 Seems to be the perfect spot for price/performance in this generation.

I am asking Which is the best 7850.I wont spend more than 190$ after rebates on it.

My rig specs are

E 6850@ 3.5ghz
4GB ddr2 800
Bottlenecking won't matter BTW

 
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chunkymonster
My experience has been that it does not necessarily matter which brand of video card you buy as much as it matters that you buy it from a well known and established card maker.

If you stick to a major brand like XFX, Sapphire, Asus, HIS he cards are pretty much exactly the same except for some gpu/GDDR clock and cooler differences. Then it comes down to a matter of warranty and any incentives like free games, rebates, or sales.

Incidentally, I am also in the market for a 7850 and have been eyeballing this Sapphire 7850; SAPPHIRE 100355OCL Radeon HD 7850 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card OC Version. It comes with a free copy of Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider and only costs $185...
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I've got a Sapphire 7850 2 GB and I would recommend it to anyone. Though I think in your case you can do with a 1 GB version. Have you considered a 7770, which may suit your old rig better? No need to bottleneck if you can avoid it.
Also 7850 is pretty power hungry so remember the PSU factor.
 
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My experience has been that it does not necessarily matter which brand of video card you buy as much as it matters that you buy it from a well known and established card maker.

If you stick to a major brand like XFX, Sapphire, Asus, HIS he cards are pretty much exactly the same except for some gpu/GDDR clock and cooler differences. Then it comes down to a matter of warranty and any incentives like free games, rebates, or sales.

Incidentally, I am also in the market for a 7850 and have been eyeballing this Sapphire 7850; SAPPHIRE 100355OCL Radeon HD 7850 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card OC Version. It comes with a free copy of Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider and only costs $185 after the $15 mail in rebate.

Hope this helps, good luck!
 
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The thing is the rig has to be able to play crysis 3 smoothly at 1080.I don't think that the 7770 cuts it.Would you be kind enough to give an exact SKU.There are like 3 or 4 sapphire models going around.Btw Max TDPs of both the 8800gt and 7850seem comparable so I don't think the psu is going to be an issue.

 
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