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
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
Ooooh. tricky.
The 7970. But there's not much in it.
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
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.
@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).
It does not really matter which one you choose..
Just really depends on what games you play.
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.
Which high number of problems?
Or save a few quid and get the 660 Ti![]()
I think he's referring to the stuttering.
http://forums.hexus.net/graphics-car...ingle-gpu.html
http://forums.hexus.net/scan-3xs-sys...very-game.html
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
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.
OK. LMGTFY
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sclie...w=1468&bih=658
Seems to be a driver issue.
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
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.
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.
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).
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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