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    670 or 7970

    I want a new graphics card, but not sure which. I've had my mind set on a gtx 670 for around £310, but I've just found a sapphire 7970 dual x card for £307 brand new. I would be overclocking too. What do you guys and girls think? Cheers

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    Re: 670 or 7970

    Ooooh. tricky.
    The 7970. But there's not much in it.
    Society's to blame,
    Or possibly Atari.

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    Re: 670 or 7970

    I'd go for the 670. It comes down to personal preference. However, only one with aftermarket cooling, or the EVGA FTW on a 680 PCB. A few quid difference, a hell lot of GPU difference.

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    Re: 670 or 7970

    @OP: you didn't mention what resolution you game at. Generally the 7970 performs better at higher res and with more AA since it has more RAM and a wider bus; it also overclocks better (not in terms of max core speed but rather because they're less memory bandwidth starved than GK104 they gain more from overclocking) but as usual it does depend on the game:




    The latest AMD drivers have improved BF3 performance a lot but with both overclocked there is little difference (unfortunately those two use difference drivers since techpowerup constantly re-do their benchmarks using the latest drivers at the time).

    Or look at the HT4U.NET review of the EVGA 680 Classified (4GB model but unsure how the extra 2GB effect the performance).

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    Re: 670 or 7970

    It does not really matter which one you choose..

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    Re: 670 or 7970

    Just really depends on what games you play.

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    Re: 670 or 7970

    I am also trying to decide between the 670 & 7970 as my 4870 cannot cope with all the Skyrim mods. I was going to go for the Asus GTX 670 DirectCU II but I am worried about the high number of problems being reported with the 670 cards.

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    Re: 670 or 7970

    Which high number of problems?

    Or save a few quid and get the 660 Ti

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    Society's to blame,
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    Re: 670 or 7970

    Only one of those was a 670 and that was just a single user with probably a faulty card, it happens.

    I have never heard of widespread problems and sites continue to post very favourable reviews for GTX 670s.

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    Re: 670 or 7970

    OK. LMGTFY
    http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sclie...w=1468&bih=658

    Seems to be a driver issue.
    Society's to blame,
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    Re: 670 or 7970

    And, it's still a very small number of problems that affected users back in May and which have been addressed.

    If it were a widespread problem you would expect one of the many respected review sites to have reproduced the issue which they haven't.

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    Re: 670 or 7970

    Oddly I was having problems with my 580 with the newer drivers - the 670 is fine..

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    Re: 670 or 7970

    Quote Originally Posted by Willzzz View Post
    Which high number of problems?

    Or save a few quid and get the 660 Ti
    Sorry I was referring to the Artifacting problems that some people are complaining about after a few days/weeks use. I was looking at some reviews on newegg (See Link Below) & was surprised at the number of people returning their EVGA GTX 670 FTW - I tend to worry when spending £300+ on cards & always over annalise things.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...scrollFullInfo

    As for the 660 Ti I will consider it but I would rather spend a extra few quid now & get the better card unless there is not much differance in performance.

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    Re: 670 or 7970

    Worrying - I haven't had mine for very long (in fact i'm waiting on parts from EK for the waterblocks so they're on the table atm) but I did run them for a couple of days without any incident (in SLI). There's a lot of factors that could cause problems (PSU, bad cooling in the case) so I hope I don't see the same (1kw psu + watercooled) and I don't know how representative neweggs reviews are (ratio wise).
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    Re: 670 or 7970

    There appears to be very little difference in performance, certainly if you are only running at 1080p.

    http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/48...ked/index.html

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