{"id":6,"date":"2010-12-27T01:18:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T01:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2018-01-20T22:28:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T22:28:30","slug":"finally-ordered-an-xfx-amd-6950-2gb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Finally ordered an XFX AMD 6950 2GB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150518\" target=\"_blank\">bullet<\/a>!!! but it gets better&#8230;<\/p>\n<div>AMD Radeon HD 6950 to HD\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">6970<\/span> Mod<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/articles\/overclocking\/vidcard\/159\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/articles\/overclocking\/vidcard\/159<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xtremesystems.org\/forums\/showthread.php?t=264159\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.xtremesystems.org\/forums\/showthread.php?t=264159<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>I picked XFX over Visiontek (both lifetime warranty) due to XFX&#8217;s better warranty policies (they don&#8217;t mind OC, different cooler, etc as long as the board is not burnt&#8230; same as EVGA) as well as Pine&#8217;s long history in the industry (parent company). \u00a0XFX is a cooler name than Visiontek. \u00a0Visiontek&#8217;s listing on Newegg did not include a picture of the actual\u00a0card, neither does the Visiontek website, so there&#8217;s no guarantee they didn&#8217;t install some stupid off-the-wall cooler or other nonstandard component. \u00a0Also XFX&#8217;s warranty is transferable&#8230; all in all it was worth the extra $10 for me this time.<\/div>\n<div>To make the deal slightly sweeter, the mounting pattern around the GPU should fit my watercooling gear I already own (I have a DD Maze 5):<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjalane.com\/reviews\/video\/sapphire-6950\/page5.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ninjalane.com\/reviews\/video\/sapphire-6950\/page5.aspx<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Frankly I doubt I&#8217;ll watercool it at this point unless noise is an issue or there ends up being a lot of extra performance locked away due to heat\/temperature. \u00a0Maybe if I build a nice case I&#8217;ll end up WC&#8217;ing just for the sake of appearances.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bit the\u00a0bullet!!! but it gets better&#8230; AMD Radeon HD 6950 to HD\u00a06970 Mod http:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/articles\/overclocking\/vidcard\/159 http:\/\/www.xtremesystems.org\/forums\/showthread.php?t=264159 I picked XFX over Visiontek (both lifetime warranty) due to XFX&#8217;s better warranty policies (they don&#8217;t mind OC, different cooler, etc as long as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/?p=6\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}