As usual the reference hsf is quite noisy. Can't wait for the blocks.

Our brother Kevin already got 2 cards on the way to him

It's not a step backwards. The 7970 is literally the best GPU AMD every created. There's only "one" gpu in the 7970 as opposed to the 6990 which is 2 x 6970 (crippled), and the 590 (2 x 580). An OCed 7970 is very close to a 6990. The benefit of 7970 is that you can run 4 pieces of them which is equivalent to almost 8 pieces of 6970's performance. On the 6 series card, the best you can to is 2 pieces of 6990 and that is only equivalent to 4 pieces of 6970.

Having some funny issues when booting into windows. No did not forget those CF cables

Nvm, needed double reboot to go in. Weird.

This post has been edited by CyntrixTech: Jan 20 2012, 09:28 PM

Yeah will do some benching. Maybe 10% OC on each card to see how well they fair. If someone wanna donate a 3930k + RIVE to me, I can do 4 cards.

Oh btw, BF3 ultra everything on the cards with 60fps (vsync on). I'd like to disable a pcie slot to see if 2 cards can do the same. Do you know if I need to remove the CFX cable after disabling the pcie slot?

This post has been edited by CyntrixTech: Jan 21 2012, 10:05 PM

vsync is important to prevent screen tearing. My screen is the u3011. I disabled vsync earlier and in huge open areas with lots of effects it was lowest at 58 fps but 95% of the time it is 60-130 fps. Indoors i get about 160+ fps. But i think there is some cpu bottleneck with my 2500k running at stock speed.

Nah don't bother with 3930k, it doesnt perform any better than 2x00k for what matters to most people. It is not easy to get every 3930k core to 5ghz so it performs worse in gaming than a highly clocked 2500k priced 3 times less. Just like e8400 vs q6600 back then. I am waiting for IB or x79 quadcore K series.

PC Mark:
http://3dmark.com/pcm7/257420

Stock speed on everything

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Added on January 22, 2012, 4:08 pmdid some further test. stock speed on 2500k is bottle necking BF3. There are many areas where I git 100% CPU usage.

This post has been edited by CyntrixTech: Jan 22 2012, 04:08 PM

no program is needed. Just the AMD Overdrive will do. MSI Afterburner may be compatible.

Don't bother. If you've committed to either one of them, stick to it.

7990 is coming, so all will be history within a month No news about gtx690 but Nvidia will likely release it as well.

Raystorm GPU doesn't come with the copper shim. Buy it from APES and install it in between the core and the block as suggested. This is used in the Supreme HF unviersal block on the 7970.

It's actually the CPU OC part that's instable. The BSOD has nothing to do with the GPU