kylothian :
For my new pc im getting an Asus mobo and going AMD all the way
I know this might be a stupid question but im very picky about my parts
I have the options between the Sapphire HD 5850 Toxic edition and the ASUS EAH5850 DirectCU TOP/2DIS/1GD5
The Sapphire one looks cooler but im going for performance wise. Will there be a performance difference if i use the Sapphire Card on a Asus board instead of using the Asus Card on a Asus board
Thanx
Once again sorry if this is a crappy question, but it just bugged me.
It's not a crappy question at all. I have also gone through the painstaking decision of purchasing one of these two cards. I ended up going with the Sapphire Toxic version simply because it was $315 on amazon for a day or so. I jumped on it as it was $25 cheaper than the asus version. The Toxic version also has very good reviews from anyone who has reviewed it, including Hardware Canucks which is very nvidia biased (the card won a clean sweep of all review awards!). The main benefit the Asus DirectCU version has is the overvolting. Overvolting wasn't very attractive to me because I have a pretty high overclock on my old Q6600 that runs stable, but any increase in case temperature I feel would be unsafe for my CPU to run resulting in lowering my CPU clock. This made the Toxic that much sexier. My Toxic is 100% stable clocked at 900/1200 with temps never going over 60C. If heat isn't a problem for you and you want the highest OC you can get from the card, the ASUS DirectCU is probably the better choice. If you aren't interested in overvolting and want a very solid stable overclocking card, get the Toxic (plus the Toxic looks so hot it's hard to pass up lol!).
Personally though, if I were to have waited one month on my purchase, I probably would have gone with the ASUS DirectCU GTX 460 1GB! It is definitely the best bang for the $! ATI vs nvidia is meaningless to me, I just wanted the best card. Hope this helps!