Video card brands/manufacturer?(help)

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jrdn128

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what if i cant find "Radeon HD 7850" and i switch to "sapphire HD 7850" or "power color HD 7850", is it make any difference in performance or it's all the same??

and for RAM also. i cant find G.skill 8gb 1600, and available only is kingson 8b1600., dont know the difference on the brand.,
 
those care just brands dude.. lol
sapphire is a good brand for ATI cards. http://www.eio.com/c-282-video-card...esize=12&sectionids=586&expand=130&ViewType=2
also XFX graphics cards also good. http://www.eio.com/c-282-video-card...esize=12&sectionids=545&expand=130&ViewType=2

honestly there arent much difference in a lot of brands. some of them are just more reliable than others, thats all. i find G.Skills and Kingstons very reliable brands. i have these RAMs and theyve been holding up for a while now.
http://www.eio.com/p-36102-kingston...-pin-ddr3-sdram-ddr3-1600-desktop-memory.aspx

hope this helped!
 
I don't agree entirely. Yes if they're all reference cards you probably wont have any extra headroom, but where they usually differ is in coolers.

Some non-reference coolers will yeild up to 10oC cooler than stock. This is massive and allows for much better overclock potential = performance.
 
jrdn128 said:
ahh. so brands does matter., the difference is cooling ,price, design and warranty? ayt?
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Basically, yeah. Read reviews between each one and go from there. Generally the cheaper version will have worse coolers and probably not as good of warranties.
 
Best brands for AMD's cards are usually Sapphire, MSI, XFX, HIS, ASUS and Gigabyte.

Some have custom PCBs and coolers to kepp the cards cooler and allow them to be overclocked further, some use reference PCBs and reference coolers.

Usually I stick to Sapphire and XFX.
 
xfx also have good design :) powercolor i think is a new brand., but its getting popular., their price is high :( @spirit., how to OC a graphic card? in bios also?
 
I've never used PowerColour's cards, only Sapphire and XFX for AMD. Using a Sapphire right now (HD 5870) and put an XFX HD 5670 in a build for a friend a while back. I've used an MSI Twin Frozr II GTX 560 Ti and it was great so I assume their Twin Frozr II and III Radeons are also good.

The best way to overclock a GPU is to get hold of software such as MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision and use that to overclock it. I've never tried it myself but I think with AMD cards you can overclock them using the AMD Catalyst Control Centre.
 
spirit said:
I've never used PowerColour's cards, only Sapphire and XFX for AMD. Using a Sapphire right now (HD 5870) and put an XFX HD 5670 in a build for a friend a while back. I've used an MSI Twin Frozr II GTX 560 Ti and it was great so I assume their Twin Frozr II and III Radeons are also good.

The best way to overclock a GPU is to get hold of software such as MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision and use that to overclock it. I've never tried it myself but I think with AMD cards you can overclock them using the AMD Catalyst Control Centre.
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okay dude., ill post question about Overclocking on RAM,CPU,GPU sooner when i get all my parts together ., thanks.
 
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