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This is a really slick looking card. What are your thoughts?

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At first I imagined Slick as a videocard.

The actual card looks good though, but I would prefer a blue/black theme.

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That's actually quite nice, but then again the only company that makes good looking AMD cards is XFX so it's not surprising that they made another one.

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This has been posted a few new times

 

It's basically just a rebadge of the 7970 cooler with some black thrown on, looks like an EVGA ACX cooler tbh

Oh I didn't notice, sorry

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Too bad i'm putting waterblocks on these cards (Not the XFX one) otherwise they would look pretty good without one.

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I think the ASUS one looks better. At least, thats the one I'm going for.

 

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At first I imagined Slick as a videocard.

The actual card looks good though, but I would prefer a blue/black theme.

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This went up a bit ago from Tiny Tom Logan. Good discussion of the AMD re-bands/GPU market.

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This went up a bit ago from Tiny Tom Logan. Good discussion of the AMD re-bands/GPU market.

Yeah I saw his video, really interesting

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Yeah I saw his video, really interesting

Yup, totally agree with his sentiment that both AMD and Nvidia need each other to push the market and create competition. Also wouldn't buy the re-brands from either company, previous gen cards are the way to go right now.

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That's actually quite nice, but then again the only company that makes good looking AMD cards is XFX so it's not surprising that they made another one.

I like saphires higher end designs and asus ones look ok

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I like saphires higher end designs and asus ones look ok

The Sapphires are a really good deal.  Vapor X 7970 just dropped down to 400 USD on Amazon and 384 on Newegg

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This is a really slick looking card. What are your thoughts?

I wonder if they are any quieter and cooler than there other loud and hot ass cards

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This has been posted a few new times

 

It's basically just a rebadge of the 7970 cooler with some black thrown on, looks like an EVGA ACX cooler tbh

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why do people care about what the front of a video card looks like so much, once its in the case, all you can really see is the top of the card, and thats given you have a window in your case.

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I personally like both of them, so which ever one performs better will be the one i will look to get

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It better not be voltage locked to 1.21v like Nvidia cards.

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im sorry bit i disagree with you i like the look of the gtx700 serie better 

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All Evga ACX cooler models look the exact same bar some tiny bits of trim. 

 

Irrelevant post remains irrelevant

ACX and Sig 2 are a completely diffirent coolers. Color might be similiar but everything else is diffirent. Just take a look.

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The XFX looks nice, but it's voltage locked which will result in crappy overclocks. The Gigabyte card that Linus reviewed has a separate plate for vrm cooling which is much appreciated with vrms temps becoming the limiting OC factor on Tahti with high Asics. It also could be voltage locked though? The Asus card will go up to 1.4v - which could be nice, assuming you don't fry it :)   I enjoy watching Linus reviews, but the R9 280X video was quite bad and rushed. Slick was on the screen for 30 seconds going over three bechmarks - I hope they do some more coverage.

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The look is still pretty much the same? I'm not sure what point your trying to make here.

 

It's two fans in the middle of a plain looking black shroud. Some have silver accents, some have gold and some have a white sticker. The essence of them all is still the same, which is also exactly what XFX has done here minus some tiny accents. 

Well for me they look diffirent, maybe because I am a detailist.

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The Sapphires are a really good deal.  Vapor X 7970 just dropped down to 400 USD on Amazon and 394 on Newegg

 

Yeah here in the uk scan.co.uk are selling the 7970 for around £230-250. Bargain! theyre selling like hotcakes!

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