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Just in case anyone has $550 handy and was just waiting for this to pick one up. ;)
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Just in case anyone has $550 handy and was just waiting for this to pick one up. ;)
I wonder how long they will last. Surprising that they aren't marked up like crazy.
yeah, kind of glad i just went ahead and ordered a 6970. i popped it in a few days ago and i don't regret it. especially for the price :D
Did you get some kind of notification that these were up? I was looking earlier today, maybe around noon, and there was nothing.
I can score a Sapphire HD7970 right now if I wanted to (can reserve it if I wanna as the shop staff know me), but I'm putting it off hoping someone grabs it before I finish work today. If it's still available after work, I'll grab it......only reason why I'm putting things off is the ridiculous price gouging here in my neck of the woods. It's like 660-680USD (local $ to USD) for each card! Only reason why I hadn't rushed out to grab one...
Bah, my willpower caved on me, on my way to get a Sapphire HD7970 DIRT3 Edition.....damn my lack of impulse control!
Edit : OK, I have the card, will install when I am back....
lol
It's done! First Shark with this beast of a card, WOOT! WOOT! :D Pic below is just to give you guys an idea of its length, which is pretty much the length of a HD6950-
http://www.sharkyforums.com/images/i...2012/01/25.jpg
In my rig where it belongs, might get a 2nd card......but will wait for price to level down.
http://www.sharkyforums.com/images/i...2012/01/26.jpg
Very nice man. I was going to come storming in here demanding pics, but you already took care of it. :D
Looks sweet! I'm surprised it's still the same size as the previous HD6950.
This card OCs like a mad mutha, using CCC, I now have core/mem @1125/1475....still plenty of room for more OC. CCC allows a max core OC of 1125mhz.....hoping AMD will raise this limitation in their latest Cat driver.
Damn that is nice. I had to make myself go to bed last night and not order one off newegg. Now that I have stayed away from making the impulse buy, I am good. I'll probably see what Kepler has to offer.
I'm thinking of getting one of these for a SSF build and putting it in a Silverstone SG08.
Two questions:
(1) Does PCI-E 3.0 really matter? I was going to use the Intel Mini-ITX DQ67EP, which only supports PCI-E 2.0.
(2) How is AMD driver support these days? I've stayed away from ATI cards for a long, long time now because driver support has always been so poor. I'm wondering if that's changed under AMD. BSODs, as a result of driver issues, are simply not acceptable to me. Not even once.
I don't think it matters unless you are going to crossfire, but it is still not that big of a deal. Most boards split the channel when crossfiring, so this could be an issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by ImaNihilist
Congrat Mikey, you can't help yourself can you! :P Case looks good
I havent had a amd driver releated bsod in a very long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by ImaNihilist
I only get them when I am overclocking
no bsods here! i'm also quite the fan of mlaa in games like borderlands which don't want to play nice w/ standard AA :)
When I was doing CFX with 2x HD5870 followed by 2x HD6870, I did not experience any major issue, certainly no BSOD (IIRC). With my HD6950, Cat 12.1a plays pretty nicely though the special driver for the HD7970 isn't performing to my expectation, no crashes or BSOD, just expected games to run much faster.....still, I guess it's a beta driver for the new card so I can expect more well optimized driver revisions from AMD soon. Now running my card at 1125/1550 w/o a hint of issue.....these new cards OC like mad I tell ya!
Nice! Although I think you need to update your sig, I don't think that Corsair WC block is a TT V10 ;) Was that one of those boxed kits they sell? How do you like it? Thinking of getting one for my rig, they're not that expensive.
have you experienced micro stutter in crossfire? i'm thinking of grabbing another 6970 soon, but there seems to be a lot of mixed opinion and theory.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeysg
In newer games, there may be some degree of micro-stuttering, like when GoW was first launch, playing EF mode I did experience some micro-stutter, but it became less noticeable after a driver revision or two. Perhaps I've gotten so used to micro-stutter, I don't really notice anymore......I'm sure there's micro-stutter in some games, I just do not see it anymore.:oQuote:
Originally Posted by Kero-chan
Kepler for life!
LOL! Was woondering when you were gonna show up here.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by OpStar
I've maxed out OC using CCC at 1125/1575 and this card's asking for more, will let my card settle down before trying MSI Afterburner...at ths speed, I can run BF3 at near max setting (Ultra but no MSAA, post AA at High, 16x AF + HBAO) @6048x1200. Pretty smooth gameplay with FR between ~30fps to >50fps.
BTW, the HD7950's expected to be launched on the 31st of January, it should be a hard launch, but at $449. Performancewise, it should edge out the GTX580....
http://vr-zone.com/articles/report-a...1st/14505.html
I'd hope it'd edge out the 580, you know how old the 580 is?
Very old, time for the green team to show us some new cards.