Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card (11199-03-20G) $185 after $15 Rebate + Free Shipping

Hopefully, the new drivers will eliminate the issues with black screens. In for one. I'll grab the games on sale later.

Quote from itzzoscar : It says the rebate expires today. Receive a $15 prepaid card by mail from Sapphire! Expires on 10/31/12

You just need to purchase it today.

if it had free games maybe

hey guys . should buy this or wait for black Friday ?

Wish it had free Far Cry 3.
Black screen issues scaring me though. So much want to pull the trigger.

Quote from Al360 : hey guys . should buy this or wait for black Friday ?

It's not going to get significantly cheaper on BF.

Quote from heftysmurf123 : Wish it had free Far Cry 3. Black screen issues scaring me though. So much want to pull the trigger.

It has a return for refund policy, so if your system has this happen, just get a refund. I believe it's an unknown compatibility issue.

Quote from bugbuster : The new drivers will make this card smoke a 660ti all day long. No more issues with the new driver.

AMD fanboy

Quote from reccax626 : Ya, the 7950/7970 deals are just too good with the 3 games.

Yep, we need another nice 7950 deal to come by.

Dang, I need a new card for my i5-3870k build (using 9800GT now). This would've been slick but yeah, most people posted on feedback that they had black screen issues. That's a deal breaker. Sure they might update drivers at some point and when they do and if it fixes the problem then that's when this would be a good deal, but not until then.

Quote from Chrisfover87 : AMD fanboy

'smoke a 660Ti' sounds fanboyish, yes. but he's correct that the new driver increases the performance of the 7xxx cards pretty significantly.


anyway, i got myself a 7850 for $185 just two weeks ago, otherwise i would've gotten this one. this is a good deal.

Thanks for pointing out the return policy. Might be worth the risk.

I just grabbed one - 6% failure rate due to noise in ceramic capacitors -
http://translate.googleuserconten...CU5IlV2dUg
supposedly fixed on the new ones- question is this a new one or not.
I will try my luck and if it sucks I will RMA or if I see a better BF deal I have 30 days
50/50 on whether this was a wise decision but it is a good deal on a 7870 and I doubt you will find this card cheaper any time soon

It will replace my 6950 on my new build that allows for PCI 3.0 and the 6950 will replace a 4830 on my older build that is running a 27" 2560 X 1440 Shimian which should see a significant performance increase.

Dang. Almost wish I could have gotten this rather than the 7950 I picked up last week. The 7950 is undoubtedly the better card, but not by much, considering that I game at 1080p.... and I really don't care about the games it came with.

Can amd overdrive settings turned the fan to off or near silent when computer is idle? I want this in my htpc to do some gaming but afraid of the fan noise