- Fan was extremely loud. But it gets worse. Granted, the settings on the newest games were able to look and play wonderfully well, the card only lasted 2 days before dying. All of the sudden, nothing. Blank screen. I did the normal investigative items, and I have a bad card. We call this "infant mortality" in the computer industry. I have been an Nvidia guy my whole life, but I ventured off the path. I do not like the Catalyst controls and will be returning the card, and getting my money back. The card has some good numbers in the online benchmarks I have seen, but Xfx needs to do something with this fan. It was running 50% on the internet. I really would have kept the card and was…
- I was going to purchase a GTX 560 Ti then I saw this XFX HD 6870 with 2 Gig memories. The GTX 560 Ti is a faster card comparing to HD 6870 1 Gig memory but not by much. But comparing to XFX HD 6870 2 Gig version they should be about the same if is not more. This card will be somewhat future prove due to 2 gig of memories. The XFX HD 6870 2 gig cost about $40 to $50 less than the GTX 560 Ti 1 gig. Some people complained the fan is little loud, but it's a high performance card! What do you expect?! It only gets loud when the 3D game is launched. The GTX 560 Ti has mini HDMI which I don't like and HD 6870 has standard HDMI 1.4a. If your OS is XP (32bit), you must download the driver from the AMD's…
- Chipset: Radeon HD6870
- Engine Clock: 900 MHz
- Video Memory: 2GB DDR5
- Memory Clock: 4200 MHz
- Memory Interface: 256-bit
- Bus: PCI-Express 2.1 x16
- RAMDAC: 400 MHz
- Stream Processors: 1120
