Which 7970 ?

evohicks · 21 Apr 2013 at 12:27

I have a max of £350 to spend and I was looking heavily at the HIS that Stulid did a great review on, but unfortunately I can't find it around anywhere now, so has anyone got any ideas on the same sort of card/spec/inputs etc...
I will possibly look into eyefinity in the future. I am running on a samsung S23A700D @1920 x 1080 @ 120 Hz
I may overclock depending on cooling but I basically want it to run BF3/BF4,Project Cars and some new releases all maxed out.
I currently have a 6870 1GB
I also have a Samsung 2233BW as an info monitor when gaming which is handy but this means I may need a DVi on the card or a bundled connector like the HSI card had.

Something Else · 21 Apr 2013 at 13:36

whats your psu?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £323.99
1 x HIS HD 7970 IceQ X² 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H797QM3G2M) £319.99
Total : £655.38 (includes shipping : £9.50).

Either of those are decent. The HIS card stulid reviewed isnt for sale on ocuk so it seems a bit weird that he put his review up here but the HIS card I showed has the same cooler. I would get the Gigabyte card personally.

V4NT0M · 21 Apr 2013 at 13:45

I have the windforce, slightly better than stock and really quiet, definitely quieter than your average twin fan card.

evohicks · 21 Apr 2013 at 14:20

Thanks guys for the input, will probably order on Tuesday or Wednesday as no one at home so a bit of time left yet

Yeah its strange that you can't buy the HIS 7970 Turbo anywhere, I looked all over too

evohicks · 21 Apr 2013 at 15:03

Is it worth the extra to get the Ghz edition....
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £369.95
Total : £380.75 (includes shipping : £9.00).

It will be an extra 45ish quid but if its worth it then its ok.

BriT · 21 Apr 2013 at 15:05

Not worth it, you can easily overclock it yourself.

Something Else · 21 Apr 2013 at 15:52

not worth it.

Getting the ghz clock speed is easy in CCC its just moving sliders and the power limit to 20%

evohicks · 21 Apr 2013 at 16:11

Thanks people. I would need a dvi - mDP or a dvi - hdmi for this card then for my 2nd monitor.

deFiniLoGy · 21 Apr 2013 at 16:35

Somthing Else said:
not worth it.

Getting the ghz clock speed is easy in CCC its just moving sliders and the power limit to 20%

Though I think the Gigabytes are voltage locked?
Go for HIS as people here clock them at brilliant speed..

evohicks · 21 Apr 2013 at 20:51

Somthing Else said:
whats your psu?

Antec TruePower New Modular 650W '80 Plus Bronze'
Missed that

deFiniLoGy · 21 Apr 2013 at 20:56

evohicks said:
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W '80 Plus Bronze'
Missed that

That's good enough for a single 7970.

evohicks · 21 Apr 2013 at 22:13

deFiniLoGy said:
That's good enough for a single 7970.

Yeah I won't be doing X-Fire in the near future to be honest. I know I would need a better PSU to run the next gen multi GPU setups

wazza300 · 22 Apr 2013 at 01:04

deFiniLoGy said:
Though I think the Gigabytes are voltage locked?
Go for HIS as people here clock them at brilliant speed..

+1 they are which means it runs at full 1.25v at full clocks

unlocked voltage you'd be able to run the same clocks with much less voltage than the gigabyte card

and yeah go for the non ghz version,mine came with 925mhz core and 1375mhz memory and oc'd it to 1050core 1500mhz without touching voltages(stock 1.112v)

evohicks · 22 Apr 2013 at 20:08

deFiniLoGy said:
Though I think the Gigabytes are voltage locked?
Go for HIS as people here clock them at brilliant speed..

wazza300 said:
+1 they are which means it runs at full 1.25v at full clocks

unlocked voltage you'd be able to run the same clocks with much less voltage than the gigabyte card

and yeah go for the non ghz version,mine came with 925mhz core and 1375mhz memory and oc'd it to 1050core 1500mhz without touching voltages(stock 1.112v)

So the HIS 7970 is unlocked?
Been reading about people getting a lot out of the HIS 7950 , if I could get near the 1200/1600 that they claim, that would be a bonus.

wazza300 · 22 Apr 2013 at 20:12

yh the his is

you can overclock the gigabyte also but the thing is it wil run at 1.25v no matter what,you wouldn't be able to lower the voltage = less heat

LtMatt · 22 Apr 2013 at 20:17

The cheaper version of the HIS 7970 on OCUK is voltage locked i think. The more expensive version (which Stulid reviewed and Gibbo owns, but is not for sale on ocuk) is not voltage locked.

evohicks · 22 Apr 2013 at 20:40

So in theory the His 7950 Boost would clock better than both?

Edit: Seems like the choice of 7970's is limited everywhere these days, also the free games.
Must be making room for the 8 series

LtMatt · 22 Apr 2013 at 20:44

evohicks said:
So in theory the His 7950 Boost would clock better than both?

Well i think they're both voltage locked at 1.25v so either could potentially clock well. It depends on the luck of the draw as to how much voltage they actually require to run at stock clocks and that comes down to asic which you won't know until you order the card. Statistically the 7970 will improve your chances of getting a better clocker, but it still comes down to luck of the draw.

One other thing to consider, the 7950 has lower brand memory so the 7970 will clock better on that front.

wazza300 · 22 Apr 2013 at 21:03

I didn't know the his was locked?

I know the sapphire cards aren't,or any of the msi

LtMatt · 22 Apr 2013 at 21:05

wazza300 said:
I didn't know the his was locked?

I know the sapphire cards aren't,or any of the msi

I hope this doesn't come back to bite me in the ass but im 99% sure the HIS 7970 OCUK sell is the cheaper version and is voltage locked at 1.25v.