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(More customer reviews)So far this card is running well in my machine and plays everything with ease, buy one now if you are gaming on a single monitor and want to spend less than [...] !
First my only negative would be that this card seems to run a little hot, 43 C at idle in the 70 C range when gaming and over 80 C when running a stress test. From what I have read this is cool however comparted to some of the HD 6950 2GB refernce cards and yet this can be addressed if you like me like to keep you're hardware cool. Youc an do so by upgrading your case like I did and by using software like MSI Afterburner to adjust the fan which I also did, the only downside is that it becomes a bit loud in my opinion. Keep in mind I say this as someone who has never owned a top model graphics card like an AMD 69xx or an Nvidia x80 before, so heat and loud fans my be the norm, as I have nothing to compare it against. For instance my previous two cards were a Radeon HD 5770 I got last year and an NVIDIA 8600 GT I bought in 2008.
With all that aside for the moeny after the rebate this card is an unbeatable value and an out of this world performer. I can play EVERY game I have on the highest setting with AA at 1920x1080 and get well over 30 FPS on everything, most running over 60 FPS.
Some bencharking results I got with 3D MARK VANTAGE and 3D MARK 11 are as follows,
VANTAGE
3DMark Score 17262.15 3DMarks
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Graphics Score 17530.79
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CPU Score 16503.48
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3DMark Score P4799
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Graphics score 4672
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Physics Score 5463
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Combined Score 4909Overall I would suggest buying this if you have a case with good airflow, do not mind a little fan noise and want a great single card solution for single monitor gaming. If you are going to run a 3 monitor set up or think you will in the future then get the 2GB version of the HD 6950 or a 6970.
Asus M4A87TD/USB3 Board
4 GB ADATA DDR3 1333
AMD PII 1055t X6 at stock 2.8 clock
Antec Basiq plus 550W power
NZXT Phantom Case
Update 3/21/2011.
Today I installed and ran the Unigine Hevan Benchmark and the results were as follows:
32.6 FPS with all high settings, normal tesselation and 8x AA.
46.1 FPS with all high settings, normal tesselation and no AA.
These are great results for a very demmanding benchmark which gave the Ati 5xxx line a hard time due to their poor tesseliation performance and as you can see the AMD 6xxx line in particular, my HD 6950 live up to AMD's claim to have made mjor improvements to the tesselation peromance of their new cards.
Whatever you buy XFX makes great products and their customer support is top notch and legendary among the community of computer gamers so you can not go wrong with this card at less than [...]
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