BF2S Forums Which brand HD5870?

Sapphire or XFX

Sapphire - usually cheapest and still very good

XFX or Visiontek (if they still offer it) if you want lifetime warranties and all that

haffeysucks wrote:

sapphire, asus, or xfx

for quality

Sapphire if you need the cheapest, but XFX for quality/support.

Also, check to see if any of the cards come with a game - my XFX 295 did.

^ what panzer said about the Asus one. get that.

Lucien wrote:

The Asus one wasnt available anywhere here, I bought the most expensive one instead lol. At least this'll be my second XFX in a row now. Anyone know what its cooler's like?

If its the same as the 5850 that I have, the stock fan is very lound after 35% and sounds like a very loud hair dryer at 100... but it move alot of air.

CrazeD wrote:

I used to only buy Sapphire, but now that XFX makes ATi they will be my first pick. Their warranty WTFPWNS Sapphire's.

Can you compare Sapphire and XFX warranties?

.Sup wrote:

CrazeD wrote:

I used to only buy Sapphire, but now that XFX makes ATi they will be my first pick. Their warranty WTFPWNS Sapphire's.

Can you compare Sapphire and XFX warranties?

Never needed to do anything with my XFXs, but in order to RMA my 4850 with Sapphire, I had to pay $12 to ship it to them, then they wanted me to pay an additional $15 for "processing", but since I pitched a fit over the fee they took it off.  When I got my 4850 back 2 months later, it was still broken, and they were gonna charge me shipping and the "processing" fee to have them fix it, and it was broken out of the box.