Good News!!

AMD has officially announced lower prices for their HD 7970, HD 7950 and HD 7770

HD 7970: $479

HD 7950: $399

HD 7770: $139

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/...ee-game-promo/

So in RM, HD7970 will be priced around RM1500+ only...now it's time for CFx

This post has been edited by shepard: Apr 16 2012, 10:06 PM

great if the sellers here follow the pricing drop
2nd cards will be cheaper too

EK-FC7970 DCII



Package included two-slot I/O bracket

Yeah, we have to wait alittle longer for that to happen in Malaysia I guess..but the good thing is that we can save more while waiting for the price drop for another 2x7970s WB


Nice stuff there , surely will grab 2pcs later. Btw where can I get this, anyone selling in Lowyat?

This post has been edited by shepard: Apr 16 2012, 10:35 PM

You might contact ezzydamvp for inquiry.
or import from FrozenCPU

i love 0000





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from the pic there is connection at the back of the card so can't use d-plug when doing cf

Whoa..what a NICE score P10000, congrats!


At last, 40k vantage score is achievable with single hd7970

HD7970 @ 1300MHz/1750MHz
CPU 2600k @ 4.85GHz

http://3dmark.com/3dmv/4035482



Bro Kevin,
Could you please help to list down what games are currently having issues with CFx 7970s? Thanks in advance..

btw, here are the games that I currently played:
- Mass Effect 3, Alan Wake, Skyrim, Batman Arkham City, Rage, BF3, MW3, Crysis 2, The Witcher 2 & Fable III


BY THE WAY, WHERE ARE THE OTHER 7970 OVERCLOCKERS?? THIS GPU IS BUILT FOR OVERCLOCKING, COME ON 7970 OWNERS post your score as well

This post has been edited by shepard: Apr 21 2012, 03:36 AM

Alan Wake will crash on 7970 CF, but I think at one scene only as now it didn't crash on me with 12.4 beta + 12.3 CAP.
ME3, Skyrim, Batman AC, BF3, MW3, Crysis2, GTA4, Portal2 - no crash on single display.
On eyefinity most of them will crash into BSOD.

how is the stability of the 12.4 beta?
is it good.
using 12.3

This post has been edited by sam sam: Apr 22 2012, 10:38 AM

Alright thanks, so it seems AMD still have some works to do with their crossfire/trifire/quadfire customers. It make me sick to decide whether to get another 7970 or not because of so many issues

this is based on pure gaming
7970 cf is not really good. It works, but sometimes you get crashes. If it works sometimes you get some funny artifacts even at stock speed

ohh...thanks , I guess better to forget my plan for CFx 7970 this time. Last time when using 3x5850s I dont have any issues with latest games during that time...but now I just have to wait a little longer for the driver fix or just wait for 8970/780.

if you are not greedy on graphics then you can forgo CF
if you are very greedy and want to play max settings even single screen, CF is a must

Playing Kingdoms of Amalur going CF has noticeable difference. Graphics is simple with this game

Playing Witcher very noticeable

Of course I'm a greedy graphics user, that's why 1piece of hd7970 is not enough even though practically it is more than enough . tbh, aside from greedy I wanted to keep my system for at least 1 year ahead and I believe new games will comes out with even higher requirements sooner or later. I'm talking about crysis3, far cry3, max payne 3, bioshock infinite etc...

Ok, from what i read in guru3d forum, the 12.4 beta resolved most of the CF 7970 issues and maybe I just need to wait until 12.4 WHQL released and observe the results then only can decide whether to go for CFx. Thanks bro..

i tried the 12.4beta i must say it seems to be much better almost there already
now even i am tempted to get another card for a 3 card action

Hi shepard, what's the temp of your 7970 before/after oc? idle & load?

Hi Bro,

Stock 925/1375@ 1.05V(downclock the voltage):
idle: 38degC
load: 62degC

when OC to 1240/1650@ 1.25V (xtreme gaming)
idle: 38degC
load: 73degC

When OC to 1300/1750 @ 1.3v (Benchmark only)
idle: 37degC
load: 75degC
Fan: 100% - as loud as a vacuum

I didn't use the default AMD fan profile but instead setup the fan profile using MSI AB with higher fan speed thus the sounds coming from the 7970 fan is quite annoying .

Shepard, did you try to turn on HypePerformance on VirtuMVP and benchmark before? 7970+ Intel HD3000.

This post has been edited by JeffreyYap: Apr 24 2012, 02:48 PM

I dont use VirtuMVP eventhough I've read somewhere that It can boost up our graphics performance. If Im not mistaken, either tomshardware, tweaktown or techpowerup site has already performed the comparison between GPU alone vs GPU+VirtuMVP and after going thru a benchmark sessions in those sites, I dont think it's really helping so I never really try it.

Have you try it and found something interesting? maybe can share with us...