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670, 680, 7950 and 7970 overclocks
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Low volume? What?! Did you not see Gibbo's castle?
The card works. A minority of users are having issues with stuttering in certain (what appears to be) older games.
If you have an issue you can always RMA/DSR it anyway... if you don't want to wait for the fix.
Or you can get a similar performing card with the AMD certified "our drivers will make it work proper honest Guv" seal of approval.
This point isn't to say AMD are worse or not (different debate altogether) but that issues are prevalent on both sides.
I was very close to getting the 670 windforce at a little below £340. But then I thought, a decent(windforce) used 7950 at ~£250 is probably the appropriate performance/value for my resolution.
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lol, and then we get this offer for today only
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-098-GI
A new Windforce 7950 @ £300 including 3 games. If only I waited a few days.
Would recommend to others, a great price.
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That Radeon 7950 Windforce 3x at £300. That is quite impressive. I am hovering over the buy button here. 
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That Radeon 7950 Windforce 3x at £300. That is quite impressive. I am hovering over the buy button here.
Do it
The Windforce cards are always really nice. If I was buying a custom card - it would be a Windforce.
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Yeah I was reading the reviews a few weeks ago and came to that conclusion. And at this price...
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I'm waiting for an MSI 7950 FROZR III to turn up later on today. Going by reviews, it appears to be a real nice piece of kit. Very cool and quiet, overclocks really when overvolted, hopefully up to and beyond 1200mhz @ 1.2v ish, and on offer on TWO for £299.99.
Heres hoping
Heres hoping
I'm waiting for an MSI 7950 FROZR III to turn up later on today. Going by reviews, it appears to be a real nice piece of kit. Very cool and quiet, overclocks really when overvolted, hopefully up to and beyond 1200mhz @ 1.2v ish, and on offer on TWO for £299.99.
Heres hoping
I've also got that card coming, I got the b grade one for £250. I'm hoping for 1250mhz + as I'm going to water cool it, let me know how you get on with yours.
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I've also got that card coming, I got the b grade one for £250. I'm hoping for 1250mhz + as I'm going to water cool it, let me know how you get on with yours.
Will do. I tried to go for the sapphire 7950 OC versh that was going for £250 in the B grade section, but the stock level hadn't been updated and was out of stock, so I went for this instead as I'd read some very favourable reviews about it.
I'm waiting for an MSI 7950 FROZR III to turn up later on today. Going by reviews, it appears to be a real nice piece of kit. Very cool and quiet, overclocks really when overvolted, hopefully up to and beyond 1200mhz @ 1.2v ish, and on offer on TWO for £299.99.
Heres hoping
What do you mean "TWO for £299.99"?
The 7950 Windforce seems like a steal for £300. Wonder how cool it is compared the insanely cool Sapphire 7950 OC (29 idle/55 load for me) with two fans compared to its three.
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TWO = This week only 
beaten to it...
beaten to it...
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The windfarce versh was/ is £40 more than the MSI, plus going by the reviews I read, the performance of the MSI in overclocking, noise and cooling is very good, maybe even better than the gigabyte one. Saying that, it might be the opposite but we'll see when it arrives I can start to have a play with it. Another reason I went MSI is I've currently got a MSI 6850 "storm" installed atm and the silence, overclocking, etc with that is great, so I'm hoping the same can be said of the 7950