Which hd7970 GHZ has Ref PCB Board?

PurE GaminG

PurE GaminG

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hey there just been off the phone with overclockers sales team they have advised me to post on this section.




Hello to all who is reading this.

just of couple of question that poped in to my mind that i wasnt sure about and couldent get answers for the specif question in one place.

i have done some reaserch on the HD 7970, but when it comes to the benchmarks im kind of lost with all the terminlogy and stuff im newcomer and currently building/ modding / watercooling my first rig.


My system in progress (modding case) researching parts

Case - Coolermaster Cosmos Ultra II
Cpu- Ivy Bridge 3770k
Motherboard - Asus Maximus V Formla/TFX
RAM- Reserching
ssd - researching
hdd - reserching
gpu = reserching - sli- crossfire
psu - 1200 - corsire or seasonic
Montior 3 montiors or 1 big 2560x1440

Water Cooling
res - ek tube 200 or 15o multi port
Pump - Dual d5 pump - Reserching
Rads -360 rad - reserching - 2 x 140 rads
CPU block - XSPC Razor Full Cover Waterblock Raystorm Style or Swiftech Komodo HD7900 Full Cover Waterblock.
Tubing 3/8ID - 5/8OD

System Purpose -

use for variety of stuff, Gaming, Movies, Photoshop and possible 3d if ati/amd gpu allow it.


1.What are the the difference between the Ref/Boost/Ghtz,
"Does the boost come with onboard overclock switch on the pcb."

2. Which are the reference cards in the hd7970 line up from the Boost , Ghz and normal hd7970 so that i could buy the full water cooling blaock for i t.

3. if i was to buy the the ref card and watercooled it and overclocked it, would i get the ghz permoforance and above, i dont know if this is true but some mentioned that they could flash a GHz edition bios on any normal 7970 and end up with the same card. and also i found out out that the ghz are biined picked. allow for better overclocks.

so to sum it up im looking for for gpu tha caters my needs see purpose secton above, been recommecned to buy either the 670, 7950 or 7970. unless you have any other suggestion with reasons or explaintaion has to why e.g go with nivda 680 driver are updated faster then ATI etc.

if you guys think ive made the wright decision with going with the hd 7970 Ghz then i will need to to know which lineup of Ghz and boots are the ref deisgn pcb boards from the different vendors so that i can fit a full cover water block to it.

Thanks for taking your time to read this and i hope my message/question is understood if not please do ask.

ovrercolockers sales team recommemend this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-301-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=938 but wasnt sure if i t had the ref pcb baord.

Thanks look forward to your replies.




PurE GaminG
 
msi oc 7970

all have dual bios switches I think,boost edition is just a pre clocked standard card but running at 1000mhz core which is easy to do on any non ghz edition
 
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Just go with generic ref 7970s - msi oc 7970 if you can find.
The Ghz aint binned, just set at a higher voltage to cater for the higher clock speed, just as much chance getting a good/bad clocker going Ghz or normal ref.

OCUK sales team are doing their jobs correctly and suggesting one of the most expensive cards :D (also no full cover blocks for it)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-063-HS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=938

a lot cheaper, and according to "Cooling configurator" is reference design.
 
thankyou very much but you partly answerd some question
could awser the 3 Question e.g

1 anwser
2 anwser
3 anwser

so would i be able to overlock the normal ref card and get some same perfomrance has the ghz card, also the ek config is not always updated becuase its not updated to cater for change of brand pcb revision .

also does this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=56&subcat=938 have the ref pcb becuase oc sale deparment siad yes but wasnt 100% when i told them that they revised the new pcb so they told me to post here.

p.s

msi i hear have some problems
 
Tonester0011 said:
Just go with generic ref 7970s - msi oc 7970 if you can find.
The Ghz aint binned, just set at a higher voltage to cater for the higher clock speed, just as much chance getting a good/bad clocker going Ghz or normal ref.

OCUK sales team are doing their jobs correctly and suggesting one of the most expensive cards :D (also no full cover blocks for it)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-063-HS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=938

a lot cheaper, and according to "Cooling configurator" is reference design.
Click to expand...

how can i confirm that this has the ref pcb baord instead of the revison baord
 
PurE GaminG said:
thankyou very much but you partly answerd some question
could awser the 3 Question e.g

1 anwser
2 anwser
3 anwser

so would i be able to overlock the normal ref card and get some same perfomrance has the ghz card, also the ek config is not always updated becuase its not updated to cater for change of brand pcb revision .

also does this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=56&subcat=938 have the ref pcb becuase oc sale deparment siad yes but wasnt 100% when i told them that they revised the new pcb so they told me to post here.

p.s

msi i hear have some problems
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MSI are only really having problems with the 7950 TF3 and the the 7970 Lightning (a few have gone wrong, not a problem as like the 7950s)

The normal ref cards might actually overclock further as some/most the GHz cards are voltage locked to 1.25v ref design have 1.381v (Trixx)

According to "http://www.coolingconfigurator.com/" that Vapor-X card (Manufacturers Code: 11197-05-40G) is non reference as such no full cover block.

PurE GaminG said:
how can i confirm that this has the ref pcb baord instead of the revison baord
Click to expand...

http://www.coolingconfigurator.com/
And the Manufacturers Code: H797QM3G2M.

If it's listed wrong it's OCUK fault (ask in CS first)
 
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