Which RADEON HD 7870?

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These are going for quite a deal with rebates and I need to pick one before the deal expires for my new rig. What do you guys think? The Powercolor comes with PCI-E 2.1 whereas the others come with 3.0. Is that signficant?
  • Gigabyte Radeon HD 7870 OC 1100MHZ 2GB 4.8GHZ GDDR5 DVI HDMI 2XMINIDP PCI-E Video Card

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=69492&vpn=GV-R787OC-2GD&manufacture=Gigabyte&promoid=1280

  • XFX Radeon HD 7870 Core Ed. 1000MHZ 2GB 4.8GHZ GDDR5 DVI HDMI 2XMINIDP PCI-E Video Card

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=69828&vpn=FX787ACNFC&manufacture=XFX&promoid=1280

  • Powercolor Radeon PCS+ HD7870 Tahiti LE EZ EDITION2GB GDDR5 DVI HDMI Mini DPX2 PCI-E2.1 Video Card

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=80887&vpn=AX7870%202GBD5-2DHPPV2E&manufacture=PowerColor&promoid=1280

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if you have to choose between those 3 cards, then deffanetly the Powercolor 7870 Tahiti LE  (7870XT) the best of the 3. the reason is the Tahiti LE 7870 has more stream processors, its basicly a downsized 7950.  it has 1536 stream processors instead of 1280 on normal 7870 cards.The XFX single fan core edition is a crap card, it has overheating problems on full load, and the gigabyte looks maybe inpressive with those 3 fans, but its still a simple normal 7870.

So Deffanetly the PowerColor 7870 Tahiti LE.

Grtz Angel ☺