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

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition OC 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card (11199-03-20G)
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Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card (11199-03-20G) $185 after $15 Rebate + Free Shipping
 

Newegg has Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card (11199-03-20G) on sale for $199.99 - $15 Rebate = $184.99. Shipping is free. Thanks Selma

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Amazon has the same price

The Never Settle Bundle applies to this right?

http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/2...ree-games/

Pretty sure only the ones from ncix and cyberpower come with the game according to the blog post.

http://blogs.amd.com/play/this-ho...er-settle/

I woulda bought it if it came with the game.

Ah guess you're right, looks like I'll wait for another 7950 deal

Ya, the 7950/7970 deals are just too good with the 3 games.

*sigh*

I just bought an ASUS 7870 from Microcenter for $239 AR. Haven't sent in the rebate yet so I guess I could return it to the store for a refund and order the Sapphire. Problem is the store is 90 miles away (I was already in the area for other reasons that day) so most of the savings would be spent on gas...

Before you get too bummed out read the reviews on the absolute pos piece of hardware

Great deal, for GTX 660 performance. The problem is that now a $179.99AR hd 7850 looks expensive.

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

It says the rebate expires today.

Receive a $15 prepaid card by mail from Sapphire! Expires on 10/31/12

This card is super! Plays everything maxed out.

Tempting but taking pass until they start including that free games bundle. They kinda shot themselves in a foot when they only started offering this deal for specific merchants

No free games? That sucks

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

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.

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

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.

AMD fanboy

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.

'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

Amazon has PM'ed for the same price. Might be better for some people?

I'm looking to upgrade my 6770 with something in the $200-$250 range any recommendations?

Here's a review if anyone is interested, sounds like they liked the card but subpar build...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/576...ck-edition

holding out for a 7950, i want those games.

Man keep debating. Happy about return policy but do I want the heartache of being a black screen of death guy?

I posted this deal a little bit ago, and the second link was a comparable FP deal a couple weeks back.

Gigabyte 7950

FP Deal

anybody know a good card that goes with this motherboard....http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...6813188065

needing one pretty soon, just not sure what to get

Bah, tax kills the deal for me either way. Amazon now collects tax in cali. :(

any PCI express 2.0 card but the 3.0 are backward compatible
Do you game and at what resolution?
Are you interested in running eytefinty?
If you do not know the answer to the above questions
good intro cards for around $100
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...hics-Cards
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...6814127664


I was too, but it was going to cost a $100 more. The best price I have seen on a 7950 was $279 for an XFX. (50% more cost for a 15% improvement). The games will be on sale for $5-10 in no time.

nm ...

7950 hands down, when OC it almost as powerful as a 680. Not to mention it has a high OC, at least 10%.

7950 will cost 314ish after tax and before rebate. Subtracting rebate 20, selling the 3 games for 50, you're looking at 244ish for one of the best video cards. Not to mention the latest drivers increase the overall performance of the 7950 by 7%. Price to performance, nothing beats the 7950.

Before anyone starts slamming me saying i'm an AMD fanboy, if nvidia had the same Price to performance I would praise them too.

Here are some numbers for the new 12.11 drivers.

http://www.techpowerup.com/review...nce/5.html

I had to change my thumbs up to a thumbs down on this deal after reading about all the black screens and capacitor issues this model was having.

Was gonna jump on it initially but can't after reading about the horrible RMA support from Sapphire.

Thanks and reps, do you think this card may go between $200-$250 anytime soon or for Black Friday? I'm not in a rush to replace my card so can wait for a deal...

10? Try closer to 50%. My 7950 can do 1200/1900, up from 800/1200 stock. They can pretty much all hit 1100 core with very little voltage increase and well over 25% overclocks on the memory. The fact that mine is 50%/58% is excellent. I run it as 1200/1800 since 1900 is cutting it close to the 1930MHz memory limit where I get an occasional artifact in the latest games. Great cards, and dead silent under load with any decent air cooler.

Of course, this is only good for just barely sustaining 60fps on my single 30" screen at native and max detail and I think 8x anti aliasing. More than one monitor, it would drop down. I haven't tried the new drivers yet. Turning off fsaa is only good for getting into the 70fps level. 1920x1200 I was seeing closer to 150fps.

It's at this price point right now if you sell the games, you do take the initial 315 (with CA tax) dollar hit though. Lowest I seen was 275 after rebates + 3 games.

The value of the 7950 lies in its overclocking. Overclock it and it will be much faster than an overclocked 7870. For those who don't overclock, 7870 for $185 is a sweet deal though.

With latest drivers, HD7870 is nipping on the heels of GTX660Ti for only $185. Not bad.
http://www.techspot.com/review/59...page5.html

You can create a custom fan curve in MSI Afterburner. You can lower it to 1% if you want but you'll fry the card. If you want a silent gaming card, only fanless cards would work. Also, do you play without sound? There is no way you'll hear this GPU even at 40% fan speed if you play videogames with sound on in your living room, sitting 6-10 feet away from where HTPC connects to the TV.

I was being super conservative, not everyone is going to oc that much (I would personally oc to that much). The 7950 is beast mode at ocing though, that's no joke. I just lowball because i'm sick of the nvidia fanboys coming out and talking shit about how u have to oc it by 30-50% to get 680 level of speed.

with all the recent graphic card, ssd, motherboard and case deals.. i feel like i wanna build a new computer ..

fan will/should be on normally when playing game. i meant rest of the time when the htpc is just on for recording shows. is it bad to set the fan to like 10-20% speed during those time of simple tasks (web browsing, recording shows with display off)?

Oh ok, got your question. Ya you can set the fan to a lower percentage like 20%. I have my GPU at 20% in idle / 2D desktop mode / when watching Youtube, etc. Depends on your ambient room temperature and case airflow, it could work with 10, 15 or 20%. I can't tell you as you'll have to test it for yourself. In idle the GPU runs at 150 Mhz. You may need to disable "Enable Hardware acceleration" in Adobe Flash in Youtube if you don't want the GPU to spike to 500mhz and offload the 1080P video usage to the CPU. Otherwise youtube videos will be accelerated via the GPU which means running in-between idle and 3D clocks. Just make a custom fan curve where you specify that the fan rises to keep the GPU below a certain threshold, you can make that 70*C and that way it'll only run at 20% unless it reaches 70*C.

:shake:

GTX680 is 23% faster [techpowerup.com] on average compared to an 800mhz HD7950 at 1080P.

This version is 925mhz or 15% faster than the stock 7950. You are already within 10% of 680's performance. At only 1025mhz HD7950 ~ GTX680 in BF3 [techpowerup.com] with old drivers.

Even at just 925mhz, HD7950 is just 2 fps slower than GTX680 [techspot.com] is in games like MOH:W with Catalyst 12.11s. That means you need a 12-15% overclock from 925mhz to match a GTX680. Anything above 1050mhz is faster than a 680/7970.

... need new graphics card for new i5 -3570k build... should prolly wait... can't decide... wasting too much money already... only have 1920x1080 screen and already promised myself wouldn't spend over 150 for a card but... gaaaahhh!! Can't decide, someone tell me what to do!

I haven't had a Nvidia card in 5 years due to the value that the AMD cards have offered since the 4000 series. Before that, they were mediocre going back a few years until you hit the 9500 and 9700 era, where again ATI was on top. All the other years and in-betweens, Nvidia has been the goto-company.

Other than the price differences, they both have the same levels of performance for anything but the bleeding edge, build quality, and even drivers. Both companies of late have had some pretty awful driver releases.

The question is WHY do people argue about these things? It's dumb...and it's not like performance differences that were noticeable of the 80's and 90's. Going from 20fps to 30fps back then meant a ton. Hell, even 14 to 18fps on the initial 3d cards was a huge improvement. I'm looking back to my Riva 128 benchmarks when Nvidia was the king of value when compared to 3dfx (who was in a different league altogether) and only second best compared to the competitors :p

That's what I said not too long ago. Things change. Cards are still tons cheaper than they were 15 years ago by going off the value of the dollar. I think my price points which used to be $100, then $150, then $200, it is now up in the $200-300 range for worthwhile upgrades. You can also watch craigslist locally for other deals. A few weeks ago there was a 6970 here posted at $100. Rare find that was, but other cards pop up that are still pretty good, all in the $100-120 price range.

BF is a no-brainer... pulling the trigger now ~ you need an appointment at the psych doctor

Sapphire cards are great cards. I own (2) 5870 2Gb and (1) 5870 1Gb
2 clan mates also have the newer 3Gb 7950's running x-fire

Awesome price points as well as free games tossed in

I used to only purchase Nvidia as a builder, but no longer adhere to that rule of thumb.

I agree. I'm also in the $150 range but find myself stepping into the $200 range. Now that I have a 2560x1440 monitor I tell myself that I need to be able to run comfortably at this resolution. I will probably still hold off until black friday and just take whatever I see around then.

Craigslist can be decent. I found a 7950 locally for $160 because the guy wanted quick cash to get a 7970. Sold in an hour. Best deal I've ever seen.

What makes you think deals will be better on BF? I'm debating on pulling the trigger or waiting, and most forums I've seen say that computer components don't really go down much on BF.

Got the HIS iceQ 7870 for $200. Zero regrets! Built it with a 970 and it can run most anything I can throw at it with max settings. Grab one!

You won't find a "steal" on bf but you will see similar deals as this with an occasional one slipping through with a low price. I'm just waiting until BF because I can wait a couple weeks. And there will be plenty with more game deals. I wouldn't be surprised to see this for $160 after rebate somewhere on BF though. It's more of the fact that you'll have plenty of deals to choose from. But it seems like almost every other day the past few weeks we're seeing something show up a little cheaper and it hasn't stopped.

If you want to pull the trigger now go ahead. You won't regret it.

You could always wait 3 weeks and then pick up whatever you see then. It's not like prices are going to go up. Just a matter of if you need it now or not. I'm waiting for the game releases and benchmarks to show up. I've also only been searching for the past 2-3 weeks or so and have yet to pull the trigger since there have been constant deals. Can't wait forever though. I will buy something in a few weeks for sure.

Makes sense, thanks!

I picked up a HIS for $200 too and could not be more satisfied. It overclocks well and runs every game in ultra without any fuss. I highly recommend the HIS 7870.

How does the rebate work?

FYI, there is a new rebate today. If anyone else wants to pick up another one with a new rebate, you can.

Today it comes with Far Cry 3!!!! :woot:

Nah, not really. Maybe a realist after paying $600 for a gtx680 4gb.

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/P1050263.jpg

Far cry 3 and standard return policy made me take the risk.
Please computer gods no black screens of death!

thanks

If Newegg wouldn't charge me a 15% restocking fee on my unopened 7950, I'd probably just send it back and get this since this card is now shipping with Far Cry 3. Sigh...

^^^^ Newegg does not charge restocking fees on unopened items. I am going to refuse delivery of my card ordered yesterday and I am trying to decide between getting it again with the game or the XFX 7950 for $279 (i need a card 10.5 or less) with the 3 games. I am running eyefinty so the 7950 might be needed but I really only see a 15% boost in FPS for a 50% more cost but 15% is 15%

Anyone know if there is a Revision # for the Cards that have the good ceramic capacitor.?
I e-mailed Sapphire, but received no response.
I am not fond of Sapphire because there is no phone support & you get hit with Shipping cost on a return & they send you a refurbished card back not a new card.
The low price could be due to depleting the distribution channel of the bad cards?

I didn't know that. Interesting. May have to return it then. Thanks.

Don't know if savings is worth the added risks/time with this card. Some of the bad reviews are recent even though they knew about blue screen for a while now.
Thinking about waiting until bf.

Taking the risk.

It comes with a game coupon that includes Far Cry 3 and Medal of Honor Warfighter.

That's the last time I get advice from Tom's... Shouldn't have bought the 7850 for $250. Everyone there seemed confident that the price wouldn't drop this year.

It's only 20% off MOH:W (and it's a crappy game). I'd not waste $ on it until it's $5 or less. FC3 is probably going to be a far better game though.

I think most of us felt that HD7000 series was overpriced from the beginning since NV was 2.5-6 months behind with its GTX600 roll-out. I think it was only a matter of time before price wars heated up as GTX600 launched and forced price drops on HD7000. At the same time, didn't you enjoy your HD7850 during the last 5-6 months of gaming? I mean GPUs tend to get cheaper and/or faster with time. It's expected that no matter when you buy, something faster will be around the corner next year or cheaper for the same level of performance. You can't really ever win timing GPU sales. Just upgrade when the games you play no longer run to your satisfaction. That's about the only sure way to save $ by prolonging the upgrade itch.

Please keep in mind that 680 can be overclocked as well. It is never really fair to compare "o/ced until smoking" with "working @ default freq/vol".

Sure, it's a $500 card versus a HD7950 that I paid $300 for last spring with a Accelero Xtreme 7970 attached to it, a card which overclocks 50% on both the core and RAM. The value is with the 7000 series and under load, my CPU and GPU both remain dead silent as the fans don't need to spin up, and both are typically in the 60's Celsius under a real world load.

I don't think I ever said anything about one being faster than another. I don't care about that, with my gaming maybe once every month or two on average (usually from games I found here on Slickdeals). The 7800 and 7900 series has typically been a great value, especially the 7800 when they first came out. The same was true of the HD5800, HD4800, 9800, and 9700 generations. All else, Nvidia was my preference due to value.

How does the rebate work, how to get the rebate?

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