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770 or 7970?

Spoffle, bf4 thats an amd title right? so im guessing it'll perform better on the 7970? one last thing i <3 borderlands i mean i really love it! physx is'nt a problem going ati is it? i can just use my cpu to run physx?
 
I think it's very clear you want to buy nVidia. If that's what you want, then the performance won't be a factor anyway surely?

If so, the 770 is for you.

If you want out and out performance, then the 7970 is the one you want in the price bracket you're looking at.

It's all been said before, but For £320 you can get a 7970 with 8 games that you can either sell to make some money back or keep to play, whilst getting better performance and more longevity out of your card.
 
Ripjaw said:
Spoffle, bf4 thats an amd title right? so im guessing it'll perform better on the 7970? one last thing i <3 borderlands i mean i really love it! physx is'nt a problem going ati is it? i can just use my cpu to run physx?
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PhysX is gimped on any set up, however I play Borderlands 2 on my PC with no issues.

BF4 is AMD yeah, in theory it'd perform better on the 7970 though we will see once it's out.
 
I just know nVidia more despite having an ati right now is all. Its hard for me to spend 300+ quid on somthing without taking the time to make sure its a valid spend, the games with the ati are a freebee really i already own them but like you say i can sell them easy.

And rather childishly my mate has the 670 and i want somthing that will destroy his lmao
 
The situation is basically this: the 770 and 7970 both perform very well with existing games, and there's generally not much between them. The 770 has a couple of limitations the 7970 doesn't have, and this will become more of an issue over the next year or so - to what degree is hard to say.

So given the lack of free games and the limitations, it makes the 770 a hard recommendation over the 7970, unless you simply prefer nvidia regardless.
 
A 7970 will destroy a 670 more than a 770 will.

Since you own the games, you'll get back a fair chunk in money for them.

I might have come across as harsh, however it's because lots of advice has been given, and it seemed like it was being discounted.

So really the bottom line is if you want the top performance it's a 7970.
 
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I might have come across as harsh, however it's because lots of advice has been given, and it seemed like it was being discounted.
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I was actually taking your advice in quite a lot ;) Theres just an nvidea itch in there lol, but i just want power, performance. And tbh more mem bandwidth makes more sence. Just gotta find a monster 7970 now
 
Ripjaw said:
Right **** it im getting amd. Now whats the BEST one? forget the free games lark, i just want thee best 7970 there is :)
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"The best" is a rather subjective thing when talking about cards with the same GPUs.

I would say that this is the most balanced 7970 available at the moment:

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1 x HIS HD 7970 IceQ X² 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H797QM3G2M) £319.99
Total : £330.79 (includes shipping : £9.00).




The cooler on it is very good, very quiet and the power circuitry and VRAM are cooled by their own separate heatsink, which is all conducive to overclocking.


There is a slightly more expensive version of that card that is slightly faster, however you are literally paying £40 more for a BIOS with higher clockspeeds, something you can do in 30 seconds by overclocking, and since you're already going to overclock beyond the speeds of a Ghz 7970, it makes no sense to buy a Ghz edition 7970.

Beyond that, there are the Lightning and Matrix cards that are only worth buying if you want to benchmark competitively, as they have more robust designs that are conducive to overclocking when watercooled and hard volt modded.

So if you're not intending on hard volt modding your graphics card (which makes watercooling a must) then for all intents and purposes, the 7970 I've recommended will be the same as a lightning or Matrix variant.

Once you're at £400 for a 7970 most people are much much better off just getting 2x 7950s for much more performance.
 
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I agree with all the above. I think most of the reason the gigabyte editions were released was because the original 7970 was too underclocked and so came out badly in later review benchmarks, which use the original reference clocks in comparison.
 
Cool that one it is, i must admint i love how the asus matrix platinum one looks but somone said he had that card and would'nt reccomend it, and tbh its going in a closed case so who cares lol. Get the above card and see how high it can be pushed safely :)
 
Cool, finnaly decided, i can bloody relax now, cant wait to get this new system :D Gonna **** all over what i've got now, and more importantly annoy my mate lol
 
My 7970 is non-GHz, yet goes to 1125MHz (totally stable) from the reference 925MHz clock - and that is at a *lower* voltage than reference.
 
I can't push the 7970 any higher (1150MHz starts to fail in benchmarks, 1140MHz seems the max), but it's because the voltage is locked at 1.08v.
 
Yeah my 7970 would probably do 1300MHz on a higher voltage. Whoever at Asus thought, 'I know, let's release the top spec 7970, give it a superb cooler, and lock it at lower than reference voltages, that'll be super!', is an idiot.
 
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