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**SAPPHIRE TOXIC 6GB 7970 GHZ NOW AVAILABLE FROM OcUK!!**

spixelspixel said:
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/42577-sapphires-monster-hd-7970-toxic-6gb-three-screens/

The extra vram makes no difference even with 3 screens. The only people who will buy this card are those that think more vram = more performance. For example.

Mr Random : I have 2gb graphics card, how many gb is yours?
Bob : 1.25gb
Mr Random : HA

Unfortunately mr random has a 2gb gt 520 and Bob has a gtx 570 :D
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At 3x 1920x1080 maybe yes. But if you're a enthusiast with 5x 1920x1080 or 3x 2560x1600 then buying 3 or 4 of these cards would be ideal.
 
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Rossi~ said:
At 3x 1920x1080 maybe yes. But if you're a enthusiast with 5x 192x1080 or 3x 2560x1600 then buying 3 or 4 of these cards would be ideal.
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Still feel that 3GB is more than enough.


shawsy109 said:
Jebus, correct. Withdrawing comments. Man im confused...
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Rule 1: only adopt an authoritative tone if you're 100% sure that you know what you're saying is correct. :p
 
psychodil said:
"hugely overclockable" in the description :D
Lol you will be lucky if you can squeeze another 100MHz out of it and thats if you have ear defenders on :D

Pretty good price, if you can say that about a £500 gpu. You can say £120 of it is for the extra ram, and perhaps an extra £40 for the cooler and the overclock.
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HUGELY OVERCLOCKABLE from Sapphire means = no it flipping aint and even if it is, you'd better be extremely careful !!!! :mad:

this card will basically be the same as mine, so it'll deffo have coil Whine etc
 
Rossi~ said:
It really isn't. There are a few people around that struggle with tiny amounts of AA on 3x Dell U3011s (7680x1600) and 5 screen portrait eyefinity setups (5400x1920).
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spixelspixel said:
They struggle because of not enough graphics power, not vram limit.. unless you can prove me wrong :D
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Rossi~ said:
This is why i mentioned having 3 or 4 of them...
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But then that's nothing to do with VRAM. You could achieve the same result with 3 7970 3GB's.

Got a link for 7970's running out of VRAM on those set-up's? I won't believe it until I see proof. Specifically VRAM. I'm not interested in the amount of GPU grunt to drive those screens because that's not the point. This card is effectively a standard 7970 Ghz edition (with a factory OC) with an additional 3GB of VRAM. If the additional 3GB of VRAM is pointless then so is this card (in my eyes).

(other than extreme amounts of willy waving on here and other places)
 
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this card has extra cooling blocks on it and a new main cooler, buy yea it's basically the same PC board, so you'll have to be careful OCing it too far.

my new card is excellent, but there's no way i'll go above stock volts any more, even if a pro did it for me, i'd rather wait till a better card comes out next year.

because it's not blowing the card that bothers me, it's waiting 6 weeks for a new one :eek:..... flipping ages !
 
Mal X said:
struggle !

mine doesn't, it handles any game easily and the rig never gets hot, i suppose this is due to 1080p TV only
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I think what Rusty is looking for is proof of a 7970 tanking due to lack of vram rather than lack of GPU grunt. He is saying that in order to get the vram requirements that high, your settings are so demanding that your card runs out of grunt before it runs out of vram. Hope I've explained that OK.

Even Vega seems to be fine with his ridiculous set ups with 3gb on his lightnings, I don't know anybody who needs from more than him :)
 
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psychodil said:
I think what Rusty is looking for is proof of a 7970 tanking due to lack of vram rather than lack of GPU grunt. He is saying that in order to get the vram requirements that high, your settings are so demanding that your card runs out of grunt before it runs out of vram. Hope I've explained that OK.

Even Vega seems to be fine with his ridiculous set ups with 3gb on his lightnings, I don't know anybody who needs from more than him :)
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yes, because for the 7970 to run out of steam, will only happen with multi monitors/ hi res and to be honest there arent that many of us that will have this.

i.e my card is way too powerful for what i need and for the games i play, but at least it'll last me a few years, even the 7950 would have been too much for me, but like so many others here i was caught up in the hype :D.

its not just the card, the rig is OTT as well, the ideal set up would have been a rig somewhere mid way between my last one and this one.

the rig never goes above idle whilst gaming and nowhere near 50 degrees c, the fans have never speeded up once... only on Prime, i dont know why i've OC the card, no need to, plus it has too much cooling.... never mind, but it makes you think.

it's simply too much power for 1080p TV on a max 60FPS.... my rig will probably be ok for the next 4 years, after all; there isn't that many good games due out soon is there, or new technology etc
 
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gregster said:
BF4 springs to mind but this will also be on the FB2 engine. Unreal engine 4 is where my eyes are watching at the moment.
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BF4 aint my type of game :p... i'm more old school, i'm looking forward to Vegas 3 next year..... Crysis 3 ( more vegetation/ jungle) and maybe DOOM 4, but i doubt any of these will tax my rig...... not on 1080p

i hate generic run and gun shooters, anything that means that i'm part of a squad based team, especially COD
 
6GB does seem rather silly when multi-monitor benchmarks @ 5760x2560 show no real drop off between 3GB and 4GB cards. As said above, by the time you would actually need >3 or 4GB of VRAM, the GPU will be the main bottleneck anyway.

Anyone paying a £200 premium for this, must not miss £200 very much.
 
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