Thread: ATI Graphic Cards

Originally Posted by Azitox

There is no ATI anymore. It's AMD.
I'm currently with a HD6870 and I'm very happy with it. I was happy with the previous HD5770, and the HD4850 before that.

What manufacturer and model do you use and used ?

Originally Posted by LibChamp

What manufacturer and model do you use and used ?

Sapphire HD 6870 Dirt 3 edition. I'm using mostly Sapphire cards because I've never had any serious problems with them. I know that there are better cooling solutions, like the MSI's Twin Frozr, but I think that the Sapphire cards have better build quality due to their huge experience with ATI/AMD cards. And if I want better cooling, I can just watercool the graphics card.

Originally Posted by Azitox

Sapphire HD 6870 Dirt 3 edition. I'm using mostly Sapphire cards because I've never had any serious problems with them. I know that there are better cooling solutions, like the MSI's Twin Frozr, but I think that the Sapphire cards have better build quality due to their huge experience with ATI/AMD cards. And if I want better cooling, I can just watercool the graphics card.

Nice, I also use Sapphire and probably will keep using it on my next builds.
You can change the thermal paste to OCZ or Noctua pastes (these two are the best), it can lower the temperatures by 5 to 10 C.
Placing copper heatsinks on the components of the card also helps a bit.

Originally Posted by LibChamp

Nice, I also use Sapphire and probably will keep using it on my next builds.
You can change the thermal paste to OCZ or Noctua pastes (these two are the best), it can lower the temperatures by 5 to 10 C.

One of the first thing I did is to replace the stock thermal paste with MX-2.
The cooler is not bad though, so I don't need to worry about that.

Finally, ATI or should I say AMD issue fixed..

Thanks to everybody for their inputs....