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That's great but even so, I question the sound and heat output of an air cooled card running at 44% higher core clock. You can easily achieve this with a 7970 with enough temperature, sound, overclocking headroom to surpass 1200+ MHz. A $360 card running at those speeds doesn't really paint the entire picture. My 1300MHz core 1500 MHz memory Asus DirectCUII 7850 easily matches stock to lightly overclocked performance of a 7870 / 7950 but it screams and runs warm doing so. Mind you, this card is running 50% faster than core reference.
The validity of this thread is lost and I apologize to the OP and am positive that the 7870 will fulfill his requirements.








