ARE YOU GUYS STUPID??? DOES ANYONE LOOK AT WARRANTIES?
XFX has DOUBLE LIFETIME WARRANTY! This means not only do you get a lifetime warranty, if yopu sell it, you can transfer it to the buyer. Your card is worth much more because of this. Also, 5870s do not get very hot, and the way those Gigabyte's are designed, all the heat goes RIGHT in your case instead of exhausting in the back of the card...
Seriously if you guys know nothing about this kind of stuff, don't comment
And Watercooling isn't only for gamers, and GPU watercooling is rarer than CPU WCing. Also, do you guys not get that the 5XXX and 68XXX and lower ATI cards are super cool? Compared it to a GTX 480 at full load and you'll understand quickly.
Insulting people and using caps lock is ridiculous and makes you look like a child. Don't do that.
You have to register the card with XFX or it gets only a few months of warranty, I was burned that way before. Completely ridiculous.
Add on to that, that XFX makes shitty third party PCBs with mediocre coolers, I don't recommend getting them.
And if you get reference cards, then the cooler is phenomenal. Go AMD.
I know I just got mad that out of all these posts noone even MENTIONNED the warranty.
Every lifetime warranty has to be registered, it is nothing knew, just do it and you get a very long warranty :p
Reference cards are all the same, no difference in PCBs or anything else. XFX's cards are good enough IMO, and you really can't beat double lifetime warranty, do you know how much difference this males to make a sell? XFX cards are still much better than Sparkle and Powercolor and most Gigabyte's (though that dual fan Gigabyte one isn't too shaby), plus if you are mining, there is a MUCH bigger chance for a card to fail after a few years because of extended use, so the warranty is even more important.
I usually pay an extra 20~30$ (~10%) to get XFX cards for their warranty, if you can get it at the same price as the cheapest card,IMO it is a definite buy
