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EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX680 £360 Worth it?

ken0y

ken0y

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Hi guys, a local store are selling that model for £360. I was wondering whether that would be a good buy seeing as most HD 7970 factory OC'd editions are around that price but i prefer Nvidia.

I realise there isnt much room for OC with the reference blower but I was planning on going SLI when the prices drop and could put in a 680 with custom cooler alongside it.

Thoughts?

Cheers, k
 
ken0y said:
Hi guys, a local store are selling that model for £360. I was wondering whether that would be a good buy seeing as most HD 7970 factory OC'd editions are around that price but i prefer Nvidia.

I realise there isnt much room for OC with the reference blower but I was planning on going SLI when the prices drop and could put in a 680 with custom cooler alongside it.

Thoughts?

Cheers, k
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I would personally go for this! :cool:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 680 Twin Frozr 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £359.99
Total : £370.79 (includes shipping : £9.00).

 
GTX 680s and 7970s aren't worth their price. If you're considering multi GPU you'd get much better value looking at 2 7950s instead
 
Maybe I will just wait for the new year, nothing has really caught my eye so far. Prices will surely bomb in January :P

P.S Surely 2x7970s will OC higher than 2x7950s? I dont want to open a can of worms here because Im fully aware of a particular multipage page rantathon regarding 7950 OC'n.
 
ken0y said:
Maybe I will just wait for the new year, nothing has really caught my eye so far. Prices will surely bomb in January :P

P.S Surely 2x7970s will OC higher than 2x7950s? I dont want to open a can of worms here because Im fully aware of a particular multipage page rantathon regarding 7950 OC'n.
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They both - on average - top out around the same clock speeds.

At this same "top out" point the 7950 is only around 5% slower than a 7970. So the 7950 has a larger headroom by virtue of having a lower out the box clock speed but they both reach the same kind of levels silicon lottery determining.
 
ken0y said:
Maybe I will just wait for the new year, nothing has really caught my eye so far. Prices will surely bomb in January :P

P.S Surely 2x7970s will OC higher than 2x7950s? I dont want to open a can of worms here because Im fully aware of a particular multipage page rantathon regarding 7950 OC'n.
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They use the same GPUs, the multipage rantathon is basically someone unwilling to accept that they are wrong, and presenting faulty "evidence" in support of their "argument" that doesn't actually prove what they're saying.

But, even if you do get 7970s that overclock higher than average 7950s, the chances are it wouldn't be enough to actually see or notice any performance difference.

The only way you'd see a performance difference and more likely to definitely get better clocks is by going for a premium top end 7970, which price wise, is getting uncomfortably close to the price of 2x 7950s.

Basically, you'll never see a performance difference that warrants the additional outlay, and an average 7950 will clock within the same region as an average 7970.
 
Every card at the high end is awesome and powerful enough to give you decent frames for 99% of the games out at the minute (1% being the badly programmed/console ports which run like **** on high end hardware). Whichever you go for, you won't be disappointed. If you're on a tight budget, 7950 would be perfect. Would allow you to spend money in other areas also. :)
 
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