- Bought two of these with plans on crossfire on an ASUS X58 Sabertooth board. They sure as heck did not fit the way they came... The heat sink on the back of the card adds a quarter inch above where the pcb plugs into the PCI-E slot on the motherboard, and then it's just as big as a reference board on the bottom. I didn't quite have the option to return them with my purchase method, so I had to dremel off half the top card's plastic guard (which has to be left somewhat intact to hold the fan) and filed the fins down on the metal heat sink on the bottom card where the top's fan would be. In other words, I had both cards fully disassembled and put back together before I used them, luckily they…
- Top quality GPU, as you'd expect from top tier manufacturers like ASUS, Gigabyte etc. Runs very quiet, very cool. The cooling solution is excellent, even after playing BF3 on high quality settings sees the card run only 70-odd degrees.With the cooling and top quality compnents, hope to get a lot of hours out of the card, perhaps with a matching card in Crossfire at the next CPU/RAM/mobo upgrade (still running a S775 Q6600 DDR2 rig).Couple things of importance to note:1. The card is big and long - snuck it into my Antec Sonata III case by only two or three milimetres. A bit of scope exists to steal a few more mm with the plastic cowl - it is flexible and can compress2. Had a LOT of trouble playing…
- Three 8mm copper heatpipes touch GPU directly for 20% cooler than reference HD 6870 design and quiet operation under idle mode
- Comes in with pre-overclocked 915MHz engine clock for amazing gaming performance and stereoscopic 3D gaming experience
- Super Alloy Power technology for 15% performance increase, 2.5 times longer lifespan and 35°C cooler operation
- Up to 50%* faster clock speed with exclusive Voltage Tweak
- With Exclusive Voltage Tweak Technology design, it covers every possible overclocking and overvolting scenario for beginners to veterans
