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Shakabutt

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Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 10:18 Post subject: MSI Radeon 7850 Beer Freezer 3 or 4 ?	Quick Quote Quote

Cant make up my mind between these 2 pieces,my budget is pretty tight,so its either the cheaper TF 3 + 4 gigs or ram or just the TF 4. Yessh here they are btw,im thinking this TF 4 thing has better oc since they say it has "Improved PWM" shit http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127663&Tpk=radeon%207850%20twin%20frozr And TF 4 Power Edishan http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127688 I don't know what to do

JBeckman
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Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 10:48 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

The second one has a newer generation cooling system though I guess the differences might be rather minor, slightly cooler, slightly quieter or so. They claim better components and such (Though the first one has that too.) plus that extra about voltage modifications but that's mostly if you're more serious about overclocking or that's my opinion at least, both should probably clock quite well though if you have the money for it I'd recommend going for the newer one, you usually get what you pay for or how to say it. MSI has them on their website too if you want to do more thorough comparisons. http://uk.msi.com/product/vga/R7850-Twin-Frozr-2GD5-OC.html http://uk.msi.com/product/vga/R7850-Power-Edition-2GD5-OC.html (Either one should be good of course.) EDIT: Ah right, RAM, well I guess it then depends on what your current system has and the specifications on those. (4GB is a pretty good base, you cover all 32-bit programs with 2GB and have 2GB for the OS and such still which is pretty balanced.)

Shakabutt

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Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 10:59 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Thanks,i curently have 4 Gigs one stick,so im thinking buying him a twin would do me good in the future. Damn, both cards look good

JBeckman
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Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 11:03 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Yeah dual channel RAM would be useful via two sticks, eight GB of RAM in total isn't bad either and it's not too expensive at the moment which is another good thing. EDIT: Oh right it's pretty well known but I would advise against mixing different RAM sticks, timings and speed, voltage and that but you probably know this already.

Shakabutt

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Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 12:29 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Just bought the Freezer 4 and the ram... hope its good compared to my 5770

Paintface

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Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 12:46 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

its a good card, installed Sapphire version in 2 PCs, good deal faster than my 6950 and has 2GB ram

Shakabutt

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Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 01:05 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

My card just arrived,damn i tought this thing was plastic but its like a big piece of metal, its built like a tank. And it has LED thingies on it thats nice. Its also very cool and quiet,55 degress in a pretty hot room. As far as gaming....well BF 3 works great on high preset,tough on big maps when looking from a certain distand angle to the battlefield it drops to arround 30 frames,quite annoying Rest of my games don't seem to drop under 60 Again,really suprised by the build quality of this thing.

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