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rflction   11-02-2008 at 07:27:54 AM

Trying to decide a brand for the 4870X2 (thinking Sapphire or PowerColor). Any Suggestions?


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techgeek   11-02-2008 at 09:13:01 AM
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PowerColor has a reputation for poor quality control. I have personally owned a Sapphire board (still have it HD2900XT).

All things being equal, graphics cards should be bought on the merits of price, warranty, and bundle.

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rflction   11-02-2008 at 06:30:32 PM
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Newegg doesn't have warranty information for the products so I went on their respective websites. Sapphire has a 2 year warranty and VisionTek has a lifetime warranty. PowerColor....lets just say they don't like to share that information. Can't find warranty info in the FAQ and the Warranty page is total mumbo jumbo. Anyone know of the PowerColor Warranty?

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dagger   11-02-2008 at 06:35:26 PM
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techgeek wrote :

PowerColor has a reputation for poor quality control. I have personally owned a Sapphire board (still have it HD2900XT).

All things being equal, graphics cards should be bought on the merits of price, warranty, and bundle.



It's identical gpu purchased by Sapphire/PowerColor on identical reference boards. There is no hardware difference whatsoever. It's only a matter of warranty/support.

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L1qu1d   11-02-2008 at 06:43:58 PM
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not always, thermals (pastes, material quality) and the way the heating is setup is different. performance wise you should get the same thing.

Powercolor is def not a brand I would recommend, my Powercolor X800 XL crapped out on me 3 times (3 warranty replacements, and they still haven't fixed it so I gave up). Personally i went for Palit for my 4870 X2. First 1 was defective but the 2nd one works great.

So your choices would be saphire or Palit I would say.

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rflction   11-02-2008 at 08:43:05 PM
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what about visiontek? doesn't it have a lifetime warranty?

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