I am getting one for sure, but I need some advice.
I hear a lot of people swearing the the reference board designs... Are these just built to extra high standard and likely to overclock well?
I have a Gigabyte 5870 now that was not OCed from the factory, but it has the ultra durable 2 tech and all those goodies and a special cooler. What make me sad is the core clock can't even be raised 5 mhz from stock without artifacts. I figured gigabyte was a great brand and their custom cooler would make it strong.
My dellima is that if I order one on launch day that is reference design I could end up in the same boat... one that won't even overclock 5 mhz. I am leaning towards waiting for one that is OC from the factory so I know 100% it can OC, but I get the feeling it will be a few months after launch before one is available.
Any advice?
PS
I have been a Gigabyte fan for a long time, but this last card that has 0% overclocking head room has put a 2 year bad taste in my mouth. I am leaning heavily towards migrating to MSI assuming they produce a frozr III or lightning version of this card that is highly over clocked. I heard a lot of good things about those cards.