Bro ref design card?
If it's ref, then you got yourself a golden card.

Many cards can play games at 1.2k
1.3k is for benchmarking normally this is where the artifacts are out in full force

Yes, reference design...I believe it's really a golden card unfortunately I've solt it out due to cannot contain myself from gaming haha...now no more gaming rig for me .

Anyone who has the $$ can get this card as its a monster OC card....highly recommended!!

Yes, almost true...my card can play most of the latest games at 1275MHz core without any artifacts but when I tried 1290MHz playing crysis2 or BF3 it start to artifacted and then later hang up / driver reset

Yeah, I already got it. Now in Cyntrix hand, am watercooling it, hopefully I have your luck to get a golden card. If everything goes well on my 5670x1080, I might just give up cross firing it.

Can't wait for your result, if it's good.

I'll be on the queue for 7970 (Probably wait for the Ghz edition though.)

For a single 7970 never an issue for high clocks. BUt for gaming 1.2Ghz is very suitable. Above that occasionally you would have artifacts

If you do a CF 7970 then you may need to individually set the clock for each card. your results would vary.
Hence the asic score is cruical when doing CF if you are lazy and like to same settings for all. Also normally the lower the asic the lower the voltage you need to set the card when overclocking

For 5780x1080 depends on your settings and your eye. If you like to play at high settings would not be possible
New games are full utilizing the max capablity of the new top end cards

Max payne pushs the limits on the graphic card same with witcher 2

for max payne if you are using 1920 x 1080 on max settings, without AA , you would need 2890 Mb of graphic ram
if you are playing max settings with 8x ( max aa) you would need 6100 mB of graphic ram

Max payne in the settings menu has a readout that reads you memory needs

7970 cards has various issues but its a really good buy if you are going for full block watercooling.
standard has too many issues, too hot, noisy, and above 60C the cards is not so stable when overclocking. You can read on the forums and experience it your self. also memory heat is really important hence the full block. chances for artifacts to happen increase exponentialy with memory. If you overclock it, higher chance of artifacts same with the heat.

using trifire 7970 so i am full aware of the limitations of the cards. So far until before max payne, the card is quite crap versus the 680. After max payne it starts to really shine. 680 still beats it on frames per second.

If you are buying a 7970 don't buy the reference card unless you want to overclock. actually don't buy would be best. Just buy like the dc2. The reference card is way too noisy and hot. Now with dc2 cards there are waterblocks for it. Plus resale value for reference cards are super low

i bought my last 7970 at rm1200. brand new was 1750.

Just bought a sapphire for rm1200 too. Great card for the price. Really noisy though. BUt happy with it since its so cheap

Was planning to play Battlefield 3 multiplayer with 5760x1080p on ultra settings, I have seen very outstanding result from many benchmark but only found out that those were based on Single player campaign mode.

Such as the GTX 680 SLI, they have very outstanding overall score of "70 to 80 FPS" while playing on Ultra settings 5760x1080p (Nvidia Surround) on Single player mode. But base on my source, it was a total different score when playing the "actual" game on multiplayer, 64 players, ultra settings, B2K maps mode...even with two of these beast (GTX 680 SLI), it could only support the game with an average 40~50FPS. Sometimes, during intense battle...it (680 SLI) could barely keep up with only 20~30FPS.

I heard that AMD always have the upper hands on Multiple Display Setup, that is why I'm willing to take my chances on my next build with it (HD7970 Ghz Edition). Hope that it could live up to its reputation (Eyefinity).

Got to do with the vram. the 680 does not have enough for vram, multiples scenes do stress out the card without sufficient vram

Thanks, I certainly hope that I could at least get a decent game play on Eyefinity with everything max out on Battlefield 3 multiplayer.

Still awating Qavs for the final confirmation about HD7970 CFX performance on Eyefinity with everything max out.

i can tell you now straight away you can't play full max out at 5780 x 1920, you have to accept some lower settings at high instead of ultra when using crossfire

Yeah, that's for sure, the killer is actually the AA. The higher your AA is, the lower FPS you get.
Without AA, the single card can actually run above 45fps most of the time, and averagely 30fps on 64p maps. But for some, less than 60fps is consider unplayable already.

OMG, where do you get RM1200 7970?
If the price is that low I will crossfire it !! LOL
Since I'm watercooling it I don't mind if it's ref or not.


This post has been edited by Qavs: Jun 11 2012, 06:52 PM

Without AA already you can't max out.

Look at the garage sales.

There were 2 cards sold at that price. Mine came from a non forum member

You need 1000 watts though

sapphire right?
How is sapphire quality?
Because the shorter warranty kinda bugs me.
Already, gonna grab the HX1050w

This post has been edited by Qavs: Jun 11 2012, 07:45 PM

Just started using so cant tell.
Should be the same it's a reference card. Will know once the waterblock comes in

For crossfire, ax850 had issues. Some how not so good, random shut downs

Any tips pls,
I can't do anything more than 1125 / 1575 (stock voltage)
upping the voltage by 0025 and try to run at 1150 can see artifacts already.

Why la both my CPU and GPU also no luck in overclocking hard.

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Added on June 28, 2012, 2:14 pmStock voltage 1.17
both my cpu and gpu stock voltage are damn high lol

This post has been edited by Qavs: Jun 28 2012, 02:36 PM

why don't you up to 1.25 and clock to 1200
almost all cards can do this clock with this voltage

what is your asic score

64.4%

Update: No luck, can't even pass 10 second of heaven bench. Even 1299 can't help.

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Added on June 28, 2012, 7:12 pmaiks, disappointments.
The best I could do with my 7970 even with water.
Don't know I'm too noob or what..
After some tuning manage to get it to 1150 but anything above can see errors d.

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Added on June 29, 2012, 8:21 amRan into some problem with my morning battlefield 3 session. The game just freeze for no reason all of sudden, around 10-15 minutes gameplay. No sigh of driver crashing, no need of PC resetting. Just end BF3.exe and can run the game again. Reset the clock back to 1125 still same. Drivers issue? But don't have this problem previously.

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Added on June 29, 2012, 8:24 amDownloading 12.6 beta driver now

This post has been edited by Qavs: Jun 29 2012, 08:24 AM

Did you flash yours to the asus bios?
I have forggotten how to flash my last card, tried atiwinflash didn't work
For now it's 1125 until I get help to do the asus bios