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KFA2 GTX 770 or Sapphire HD 7970 VAPOR-X GHZ

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I'm looking to replace my 660 and have been looking at both of these cards. The factors are:

770:
I've only owned nVidia cards and really like them for what they are. Great Frostbite support in BF3/4, but driver problems have arisen.

There also does not appear to be any DX11.1 support. PhysX has been used in the Batman series, and waiting for Origins makes me think this could be a winner.

7970:
Overclocks better, better driver support & DX11.1. THIS is of great interset to me as BF4 uses DX11.1 with the support of Windows 8.

Should I make the switch?

They seem very well balanced.
 
Have a look at the Gigabyte Hd7970 WindForce 3X as well. Comparing to the Sapphire it is £10 cheaper (and £40-£60 cheaper than GTX770 in general), and has 3 years warranty instead of Sapphire's 2 years, plus it has UK base where as Sapphire you'd have to rma to Hong Kong (unless OcUK take care of the entire warranty duration on Sapphire's behalf...you might need to check).

Even if forgetting about the 7970's having more vram and higher memory-bandwidth/memory bus size, being £40-£60 cheaper I just don't see any point of getting the GTX770, unless being a die-hard fan of Nvidia.

But as said above...if your main purpose of upgrading is to gear up for BF4, you might as well wait for AMD's next gen card, and grab the BF4 bundled with the card for free as well.
 
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That's a great idea, but I'm really after BF4 Premium when its released. Gigabyte is a good shout. The idea if the games to sell would be great.
 
Real men use a 7970. That's why me, tommy, scotty, marine, shankly, pgi and many others don't own one.

Jokes aside though if you do go for a 7970 the Gigabyte 7970 is a good shout as Marine suggested, cheaper and an extra years warranty.
 
The Gigabyte is voltage locked, apparently. Since it's near 7950 price that's not a huge issue, but the Sapphire isn't.
 
teppic said:
The Gigabyte is voltage locked, apparently. Since it's near 7950 price that's not a huge issue, but the Sapphire isn't.
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Fair do's, maybe go for the sapphire then. Just remember that it will be possible to use a custom bios to give the gigabyte version voltage control. Bios flashing is not for the faint hearted though.
 
wazza300 said:
:p did you get the games with it?

you aint gonna lose much money on that card when it comes upgrade time tbh
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I dd get the games and the card should be despatched once in stock on 30th August. I'm seriously considering going crossfire too as it seems to scale better than the nVidia range. From what I've been reading, its double the performance.
 
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