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Peacefulwarrior
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Hey guys!

 

Im getting ready to purchase myself an HD 7950, but which manufacture offers the best cooling? I want to overclock this card to match the HD 7970 stock performance while maintaining reasonable temps.

 

Thanks!

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Just get the cheapest one with a double/triple fan cooler. They're all similar enough to not pay more for one over another.

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Make sure that you get an open shroud cooler rather than a closed blower design. Other than that, its really up to you. The HIS IceQ closed blower design is pretty good if you dont have great case ventilation/

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i reccomend a 7950 from club 3d

 

 

nvm, i just searched for international prices and then they are 100 euro's more expensive then in holland...

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Just get the cheapest one with a double/triple fan cooler. They're all similar enough to not pay more for one over another.

Sounds like a good idea, I just thought there would be an ideal cooler brand to go with for overclocking.

 

 

Get the His IceQ X2

I looked this up on Newegg and didnt find it except for a regular HIS IceQ Boost. However I did find it on amazon and it looks amazing. Very pricey though, about the same price as an HD 7970.

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Sounds like a good idea, I just thought there would be an ideal cooler brand to go with for overclocking.

 

 

I looked this up on Newegg and didnt find it except for a regular HIS IceQ Boost. However I did find it on amazon and it looks amazing. Very pricey though, about the same price as an HD 7970.

I love my two GPUs.. :D

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gigabyte cards are usually cheap. windforce coolers are decent, had 3 cards with them and no complaints.

 

also im pretty sure they still use refence pcb (mine does) if u decide to watercool down the track.

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MSI Twin Frozr 3/HIS IceQ X2/ Sapphire Dual-X/Vapor-X are great coolers for overclocking.

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Sapphire and MSI are 7950 favorites.  Can't go wrong with either of them.  My recommendation would just be to make sure that whichever you get uses a reference PCB.  Just in case you want to watercool in the future. 

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Windforce coolers are great, problem is, after the first couple of months, Gigabyte voltage locked 99% of their cards, and made the default voltage 1.256 instead of 1.093, giving higher temps all round. <- tis bad

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