7970 Running on 1155 PCI 2.0

hiredhelp · 16 Jan 2012 at 13:04

Hi guys my question is simple past summer i spent out a grand on parts compponants as a farther i cant afford to go out buy all new parts. Not without the wife killing me first, So that said i know the 7970 in compatable but ive not seen no user reviews of one running on a 1155.
If anyone has ran this GPU on a p67 series please can you confirm all is well. i know there maybe a performance decrease.
Thanks guys

kitch9 · 16 Jan 2012 at 13:05

It will be fine.

hiredhelp · 16 Jan 2012 at 13:07

wow that was fast response post just gon up cheers.

old gamer · 16 Jan 2012 at 13:07

I have one on a x58 chipset which is pcie 2 and no problems

hiredhelp · 16 Jan 2012 at 13:08

I have one on a x58 chipset which is pcie 2 and no problems

sweet thanks a lot

oweneades · 16 Jan 2012 at 14:11

I have mine running on a MSI P67A-GD55 without issues.

weyland yutani · 16 Jan 2012 at 14:35

I wondered about this but people tell me the bandwidth of PCIE 2.0 at 16x isnt close to being filled by current cards anyway.

xsistor · 16 Jan 2012 at 14:46

The advantage is so slight (and in some cases it is a disadvantage) that it clearly doesn't show that the 7970 makes use of it, either way.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...s/49646-amd-radeon-hd-7970-3gb-review-21.html

hiredhelp · 16 Jan 2012 at 14:59

awsome stuff here. ok heres the deal i was after the XFX black edition witch think they said had some kind liquid cooling too. is this a good card to buy.

old gamer · 16 Jan 2012 at 15:55

the black edition has a aftermarket cooler on it and may be better but comes with a higher price, im quite happy with the reference cooler myself

spixelspixel · 16 Jan 2012 at 17:30

I wouldn't get the XFX 7970 if I were you. I've always considered XFX to be a pretty dodgy company

I just came across this too
http://www.overclock.net/t/1200211/stay-away-from-xfx-7970-black-edition-design-flaw

hiredhelp · 16 Jan 2012 at 21:19

Woooo ouch i see so what brand you go for ?

pecnarf · 16 Jan 2012 at 21:46

msi, asus and Sapphire tend to be good cards

RedvGreen · 16 Jan 2012 at 22:36

weyland yutani said:
I wondered about this but people tell me the bandwidth of PCIE 2.0 at 16x isnt close to being filled by current cards anyway.

I was interesting in jumping to the Asrock Gen 3 Extreme 7 board, which has Tri-Fire (2 x 16x and 1 x 8x) and weirdly in a few benchmarks, the P67 motherboards performed better with multi-GPU than the PCI-E 3.0/2 x 16x boards. Make of this what you will, but I think that 2 x 7970 sharing 16x PCIE 2.0 lanes, are virtually no different to sharing 32x PCIE2.0/3.0 lanes. So a single card will have no issues whatsoever.

dave_beast · 16 Jan 2012 at 22:48

My PowerColor 7970 is top of the single 7970 Heaven benchmark on here, and I chose it over Asus.

Jokester · 16 Jan 2012 at 22:54

You need an IB CPU to get PCI-E 3 regardless.

hiredhelp · 17 Jan 2012 at 12:08

Ok so refrence cards it is the.
how are the temps on these cards cos from what ive seen the fans never that great on these cards.

Wucked · 17 Jan 2012 at 12:38

Temps seem to be ok, it runs cooler than a GTX580, but apparently the fan is quite noisy. You might want to consider a card with an after-market cooler fitted, not sure if there are any yet. But they should be arriving soon.

hiredhelp · 20 Jan 2012 at 22:42

Have u tested battlefield 3 on that card, my past 2 cards other than my nvidia has been powercolor.

@Dave Beast

dave_beast · 21 Jan 2012 at 00:06

hiredhelp said:
Have u tested battlefield 3 on that card, my past 2 cards other than my nvidia has been powercolor.

@Dave Beast

Yes, at ultra settings at 1080p I can run with vsync on and get constant 60fps. Temps never get over 75ºc when full on gaming either. Clocks at 1150/1600 at +20% volts, only using CCC to oc.