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To overclock the cards today we used Catalyst Control Center as we found that we didn't need to use a third party tool as the limits weren't reached.
Both cards overclocked moderately, with the first gaining 30mhz on the core and 70mhz on the memory. The second overclocked by 40mhz on the core and 50mhz on the memory.
Our final overclocked speeds, meeting the individual limits between both cards was 970mhz and 1200mhz. We decided to rerun Unigine Heaven Benchmark and 3DMark 11.
The manual overclock helps boost the scores by around 200 points, to 8775. Only a couple of hundred points behind the GTX590.
Our modest manual overclock helps to boost the frame rate scores from around 69 fps to just over 71 fps.
under £140 for an overclocked HD6870? Im not often impressed, but ill mark this day down as one of them.
Shame its a reference cooler, thats disappointing for a black edition. I wonder why they do this? I suppose it would add to the price, right?
Excellent, cant go wrong with those. AMD seem to be forcing down prices in the 100-170 area
Yeah thats a mega price. I was going to buy dirt 3 for £30 on steam at the weekend, but I need a new card. ill wait another few weeks and pick one of these up
real shame about the reference cooler, its pretty average at best. although for £60, two of these could get a good upgrade to the artic cooling solution
Its basically an overclocked reference card. bit lazy from XFX.
Factoring in the price however I can forgive them. seems they hand pick them from batches as the OC headroom seems decent.
what a great price for the performance. makes the 6970 almost redundant, unless you dont like relying on driver profiles
I dealt with Crossfire years ago and it was dire, never again. GTX570 for me im afraid.
Crossfire is much better now. unless its a sponsored Nvidia game, drivers are quick.
The ideal thing about these are , buy one ‘now’ get another ‘later.
I doubt they sell many 6990s or GTX590s’
revisiting this hardware is great. I didnt know the 6870s had dropped this low. they were 180 last time I looked, for a stock clocked card.
The only other card I would consider would be the overclocked sapphire 5850 with new cooler. its much less expensive than this, although not as quick.