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About LinkBacksRead more.XFX jumps out of the gate with a non-reference Radeon HD 7970. We make it jump benchmark hoops.
Read more.XFX jumps out of the gate with a non-reference Radeon HD 7970. We make it jump benchmark hoops.
fifteen pagesgot some sort of quota to fill?
VodkaOriginally Posted by Ephesians
surely it should be 1 star at best?
Its power hungry, somewhat defeating the major pro that AMD chips have... for no reason
It cool 3C better, hardly anything worth mentioning especially when it is using a second fan... one more to fail and you even say you couldnt tell the sound difference!.
And finally, you're paying £30 almost 10% of the launch price to get no real benefit infact you would be worse off with the extra 25W all the time and worse overclocking!.
Save £30 and get a reference card not made by XFX?
Very nice looking card!
Would have expected it to have done better on the thermal/sound with the custom fan.
The Hydrocell obviously isn't helping much and they (XFX) say there Black Edition uses 1% less power then the competition, yet this one uses 9% more then the reference models at load. Sure it will spend more time at idle then load in most cases its still 'considerably' more power
http://xfxforce.com/en-us/Products/Graphics-Cards/ATI/AMD-Radeon-HD-7000-Series/AMD-Radeon-HD-7970.aspx
They don't list a 'Ghost' version, just models that included 'Ghost'
Looks as if this version being tested is FX-797A-TDFC.
There is an overclocked version, their 'Black Edition' clocked at 1Ghz FX-797A-TDBC
As to why you've awarded it the Hexus Performance is any once guess, with the reference card being faster :-/
Right now on Scan, it is no more than the Power Color version.
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