Thoughts on XFX AMD Radeon 7850 2GB PCI-Express 3.0 HDMI Double Dissipation Core Edition?

RaiCoss · Jan 28, 2014

I just ordered this card, but have read some bad stories about the Double Dissipation cooler & XFX in general. I've read several stories that say that XFX have cheaped out after they ditched Nvidia for AMD, and that the DD cooler has a problem cooling the middle of the card. Does anyone know if any of this is true? I've had 2 XFX cards before (GeForce 8600 GT which I sold ages ago, and a GeForce 8800 GTS that I still have & works fine), and never had any issues with them whatsoever, but they were during their GeForce days...

Thoughts please!

Novuake · Jan 28, 2014

The current AMD cards made by XFX are pretty bad. Cheap VRMs, sub par cooling.
Generally noisy with coil whine being common.

RaiCoss · Jan 28, 2014

Novuake :

Are they really that bad now?

Novuake · Jan 28, 2014

RaiCoss :

Pretty much. But its not ALL of them. It obviously depends on a few more things like models and batches ETC. But in general I shy away from XFX these days.

RaiCoss · Jan 28, 2014

Well I won't be overclocking it and my case is pretty well ventilated (3 120MM fans, 1 80MM fan). You think I'll be ok?

grandbizkit · Feb 25, 2014

at load mine was noisy. fan goes to 100% if temps go over 50c

smeezekitty · Feb 25, 2014

You can change the fan profile.

Their high end cards like 7870-290X tend to have VRM heating issues

7850 might be okay. My tiny 6670 is made by XFX and has been flawless

Matthew-san · Feb 26, 2014

Is the xfx 2GB 7850 a good card? I've checked the prices between this card and other 7850's and this one is one of the cheapest I could find, coming in around $200. It has good specs but I was just hoping for an opinion by someone who's owned one before or at least somebody who knows a good bit about xfx cards.

JohnKrell · Feb 27, 2014

Owned a XFX card and by far it has met my expectations, plus with Lifetime warranty, you can never go wrong. A friend of mine owned a nvidia card by xfx back in 2008 (9800gt I think) and they were replaced lately with a 7770

Matthew-san · Mar 3, 2014

JohnKrell :

Okay, Thanks! Now I just have to decide what power supply I'm going to get.

grandbizkit · Mar 6, 2014

Matthew-san :

I have mine xfired with a msi core edition 7850. the XFX overclocked to 1050 mHZ core no problem and stays pretty cool. The one I have is the single fan blower style and it gets really loud at any fan speed over 50 to 60 percent. when I crossfire the two cards at load they don't really hit over 60 celsius and thats with them being overclocked and playing bf4 for hours

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