7970's are up for sale on Newegg.

[James]

That's sweet dude. I've finally got a permanent full time job again, so I'm hoping to rebuild my system soon, but I'll be starting from scratch. My old Core 2 Quad is still doing OK at 3.3Ghz, but I'd like to build something more modern.

Congrats on the job!

[kpxgq]

That's sweet dude. I've finally got a permanent full time job again, so I'm hoping to rebuild my system soon, but I'll be starting from scratch. My old Core 2 Quad is still doing OK at 3.3Ghz, but I'd like to build something more modern.

great timing with ivy bridge around the corner and the mature z68 chipsets

[Timman_24]

I was looking over the 7970 specs again and noticed it uses ECC memory. I'm wondering why they would use that on these cards? It would be hard to know if you have a stable memory OC.

[kpxgq]

I think they want a larger focus on non graphics related data processing.Sonethibg nvidia was dominant in with cuda. Ecc should help with that

[Timman_24]

I think they want a larger focus on non graphics related data processing.Sonethibg nvidia was dominant in with cuda. Ecc should help with that

Strange that they don't offer an option though. ECC memory is quite a premium.

[mikeysg]

Hmmmm, heard some rumors from chiphell, seems Kepler's expected out next month, performance is similar to the HD7970, but this is the GTX660/GTX760? or something like that. Whoa, IF a mid range card is that powerful, I'd love to see how powerful the top-end single GPU (GTX680/780?) would perform. Dang, if this rumor proves true, I might just wait for a pair of top-end Kepler. And yep, you heard right.....

[Learux]

Holding off my 79xx purchase, waiting on green team and see if prices come down.

[Timman_24]

Not hard to hold off when the current cards are costing 550+ dollars lol. Hopefully nvidia comes in at a real next gen price instead of pricing their cards compared to the performance of last gen.

[mikeysg]

Here's a link, dunno if it's true or not, about nV's Kepler. If it's true, it looks like two high-end Keplers are in my horizon...
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/new...i_architecture

[Nabby]

Here's a link, dunno if it's true or not, about nV's Kepler. If it's true, it looks like two high-end Keplers are in my horizon...
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/new...i_architecture

Rumors, I love them. They're always such imaginative things. We've all heard hype and rumors like these in the past and they tend to stretch the truth.

[vertices]

I wouldn't be surprised if these rumors are true. Look how old and how powerful a 580 is. I'll put my money on the fact that the high end Kepler is twice as fast which easily allows the midrange to compete with AMD.

[OpStar]

Ya Kepler is going to destroy Tahiti. I mean the 7970 is barely faster than the 580 as is.

[mikeysg]

Well, with one HD7970 in hand, I can afford to wait and see how the mid range kepler's going to do in Feb. IF I were to be impressed by it, then I'll wait for the high-end Keppler (aka GTX780), and I'd very likely pounced on two!

[Timman_24]

Well, with one HD7970 in hand, I can afford to wait and see how the mid range kepler's going to do in Feb. IF I were to be impressed by it, then I'll wait for the high-end Keppler (aka GTX780), and I'd very likely pounced on two!

You need to watercool mikey. That rig is too awesome to be blowing air.

[mikeysg]

You need to watercool mikey. That rig is too awesome to be blowing air.

Heh, will think about it, the H100 is a big step for me as I have never gone WC before it.

Sorry for the late rply, just got back from BangKok on a short shopping spree.....of sort, no hardware, just clothes.