Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 and 7870 OC Edition Video Card Unboxing

The 7850 OC Edition features an impressive looking dual fan cooler with a single heatpipe which exhausts hot air out the back of your case. The bundle is rather impressive too including a card to join the Sapphire Select Club, quick installation guide, DVI to VGA connector, molex to PCI Express power connector, mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort adapter, HDMI to DVI connector, CrossFire bridge and a HDMI cable.

Next up in the video above is the 7870 OC Edition which in many ways is quite similar to the 7850 OC Edition, just bigger in all ways - the cooler is pretty much the same except it is bigger just like the retail box. The bundle is exactly the same as the 7850 video card expect it comes with an additional Molex to PCI Express power connector since the video card calls for it with its higher power draw requirements since it is of course a faster video card.

We hope you enjoyed this video unboxing and we will have full reviews of both of these video cards online soon.

[xBULLgogi]

just got this card through amazon for exactly 259.99 with free shipping. Havent loaded it in yet but excited to!

[TheShrubpig]

of course it would, the real question would be if it is compatible with your mobo

[jbads]

yes you should be able to play most games on ultra if you overclock your fx 4100 and have a card like this. p.s. make sure you have aftermaket cooling, id recommend a liquid cooling setup.

[JustineBieberxoxo]

If you buy one or two as an upgrade after you bought the first one, meh.
However if you do quad cards the motherboard and cpu to drive em is costly, so you could just do 7970.
I bought a 7850 and in a few months if I notice a lack of frames(not the case so-far) or someone needs to get rid of one at a nice price, why not?

[MrEviscrator]

It'll be a tight fit as you need a very good top quality 650W to run two 7850's. Honestly, you always want at least 200W headroom so the PSU isn't running to its max, itll kill the PSU really fast if you do that.

[MrEviscrator]

Besides, are you going to use two reference GHZ editions, or the Sapphire ones? If you use the sapphire ones they use about 80W more each, because of the better coolers. Once again the 1000W is there so that you have more of a future proof, and again you do not want the PSU running anymore than 90% of its capacity ALL the time. It's like having your GPU fan running at 100% all the time.

[BreakOfDawnRemixes]

It doesnt matter what brand your gfx card is, the general nvidia/amd drivers are the correct ones.

[Willdabeastt]

I think you should consider saving up for 7870 in my opinion, either way they are both good cards

[valentinogalusic]

Hd 7870 you wont regret i got this card it is awsome

[BboyScar]

I just realized that they meant the 7850 when they said $250. I confused it with the 7870 which is $360, my bad :P

[poleimechanos]

Monster cards. The big drawback though, at least for cards at this price range, is that these 7800 cards come with only one crossfire connector and thus cannot be tri-fired, or quad-fired. The same happened to the 6800 series cards, however, they were NOT at the same price range. It was a very, very sad choice on behalf of AMD/ATI to cripple these monsters in this way. So bad that it makes the 6900 cards a much better purchase, still.

[Druxtein]

I mean the graphics card drivers clear, do not come too? When you can answer me, greetings!

[fernandoteacher]

and BTW, I've heard that if you've got a 2.0 mobo and install this card you wouldn't lose that much performance, what with it being 3.0, is that so?

[sloppypotato]

im so excited to get my 2 AMD 7870's :D
my GTX 580 is getting ready to move out lol

[MrEviscrator]

And then you need 100W for the Cpu, 75W for the motherboard, etc etc. I recommend upgrading to an 1000W PSU or something.

[Jonesdawg]

Just ordered mine last night before it went back up in price today. Hopefully I did not get a dud...

[_reiito]

What exactly is the difference between them? Is it worth spending and extra $100 for the hd7870?

[noCA]

I don't know, but I think that you don't lose significant performance..

[MrEviscrator]

Trust me a non reference card takes a considerable amount of more power than a reference card. Go with 850-900W if you really want to risk it, as you have to remember that PSU's don't work at 100% efficiency.

[ZiemniakEnterprise]

Sure, depends on how much RAM you got, and whats the RAM core clock, what CPU you got etc. etc.
Type in google "PSU power calculator".