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GTX 670 or HD 7970?

wavehunter

wavehunter

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Planning on replacing my MSI GTX560ti with either a GTX 670 or HD 7970 (both on the watercooled graphics cards page) to run a Hazro HZ30Wif 30" at 2560x1600.

I've pretty much always had NVIDIA cards apart from a successful spell using an ATI Radeon a few years back.

As they'll be watercooled, there will be scope for overclocking but the primary aim will be to run games (MOH, COD and F1 2012) at max res.

Any recommendations or advice to help me chose?
 
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7970 5-10% faster at stock, under water=moar volts=higher performance increase.

Pgi pointed out one of the best/very popular 7970's for overclocking, check out the Heaven Benchmark threads, whyscotty Ltmatt are using the 7970 OC.

Perhaps a cheeky request in the Customer Service thread to request the MSI 7970 OC for your order, although maybe they are already using that particular card on their build.

Unless of course you enjoy PhysX=670.

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pgi947 said:
MSI 7970 OC.

A no brainer really, will easily out-pace a 670 at that resolution, has full voltage control and should clock like a champ under water :)

Edit: nice n' cheap atm too:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7970 OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £299.99
Total : £310.79 (includes shipping : £9.00).

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Rusty0611 said:
7970. The wider bus helps at your resolution.
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tommybhoy said:
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7970 5-10% faster at stock, under water=moar volts=higher performance increase.

Pgi pointed out one of the best/very popular 7970's for overclocking, check out the Heaven Benchmark threads, whyscotty Ltmatt are using the 7970 OC.

Perhaps a cheeky request in the Customer Service thread to request the MSI 7970 OC for your order, although maybe they are already using that particular card on their build.

Unless of course you enjoy PhysX=670.

:)
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I have a gtx670 under water and yes its a great card and plays everything I throw at at max settings at 1920x1200 (eg BF3 single player runs tops out at 40c running at 70ish fps) but if I were buying today I would go with a 7950 and maybe a 7970 due to their overclockability. What I don't like about the GtX670 is the nerfed voltage control which badly hamppers overclocking and its price also you get some decent free games with the Radeon cards.
 
Dayum!

I was hoping for someone to go for the GTX670 but it's a full house to the HD 7970. Can't argue with that.

How are the ATI drivers? - some of the posts don't fill me with confidence.


Perhaps a cheeky request in the Customer Service thread to request the MSI 7970 OC for your order
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Can I spec the card? I thought the only option was the block. Speaking of which, any recommendations between the EK-FC, Koolance or XSPC Razor? I hear the XSPC doesn't do much for the VRAM on other cards.
 
wavehunter said:
Dayum!

I was hoping for someone to go for the GTX670 but it's a full house to the HD 7970. Can't argue with that.

How are the ATI drivers? - some of the posts don't fill me with confidence.




Can I spec the card? I thought the only option was the block. Speaking of which, any recommendations between the EK-FC, Koolance or XSPC Razor? I hear the XSPC doesn't do much for the VRAM on other cards.
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Those that are STILL speaking ill of AMD's drivers obviously haven't touched an AMD driver in the last 5-6 months. Yes a year ago or so, they were pretty bad I think most will admit to that, from low performance, things not working to games being completely unplayable on release day. But AMD seem to have gotten the hint and have really upped their game lately.

Even CF has been quite flawless for me since 13.2, the odd irritating issue (ULPS to name one) has vanished.

You'll have to ask CS about using an MSI card, I don't see why they can't use one, all tech lab 7970's used to be based on the MSI OC. Failing that, buy everything separate and fit the block yourself, its pretty easy these days.

As for block, anything apart from XSPC, Danger Den (extinct anyhow) or Alphacool V1 blocks will be fine, those I listed have poor or no VRM cooling, which defeats the point of buying a full cover block.
 
pgi947 said:
Those that are STILL speaking ill of AMD's drivers obviously haven't touched an AMD driver in the last 5-6 months. Yes a year ago or so, they were pretty bad I think most will admit to that, from low performance, things not working to games being completely unplayable on release day. But AMD seem to have gotten the hint and have really upped their game lately.
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it depends what games you are playing - MWO has been open beta for 4-5 months now and yet AMD users (me included) are complaining of very poor performance

I'm sure they have improved a lot on supporting the main AAA titles, but if you tread off the beaten path a little you can still run in to problems

I finally managed to get the latest ones on though and they have improved things a bit - but I still get no more than about 80% usage and dips to 50-60% causing big dips in framerate (though now to about 20-30FPS instead of 8fps)
 
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