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I have a triple slot 7970 DCUII. I installed it in my system a few months ago but haven't had the time to play any demanding games yet. Is it still considered a high-end card for gaming?

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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It is basically an R9 280X, so yeah. OR YOU COULD SELL IT FOR BIG $$$ due to litecoinz

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Its the same as a 280x. The only cards above it are the 780, the 780 ti, titan, r9 290, and r9 290x (single cards)

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Hell yea. Its the same performance wise as the 770 and teh 280X. You will play everything maxed.

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Yes it is considered a high end card and surely capable of playing anything you throw at it

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I was under the impression that the 7970 was quite an old card.... I got it for around $250 lol.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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I have a triple slot 7970 DCUII. I installed it in my system a few months ago but haven't had the time to play any demanding games yet. Is it still considered a high-end card for gaming?

Yes. It depends on what games you play, but yes it's still high end.

Rank of mainstream cards right now(these gaps are very minimal, and can change with overclocks):

1. GTX 780 TI (higher binned GPU than Titan, 3GB less VRAM)

2. GTX Titan

3. R9 290X

4. GTX 780

5. R9 290

6. 7970/R9 280X

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It is an older card, but it's still a very good card. I would sell it for 400 bucks for so if I was you

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I was under the impression that the 7970 was quite an old card.... I got it for around $250 lol.

Nice steal. They go for almost $400 now.
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Wow it's amazing how a 3 year old card is still so powerful

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I was under the impression that the 7970 was quite an old card.... I got it for around $250 lol.

 

It is quite old, it was released in January 2012.

Still kicks a ton of ass though. I have one.

Old shit no one cares about but me.

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Sell it and buy a 770 and spend the remaining cash on candy

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I was under the impression that the 7970 was quite an old card.... I got it for around $250 lol.

Old cards don't really get worse, games just get more demanding.  A 9800GT is still as good as it was when it was released, its still a high end card, just weak by the standards of today.

 

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Yes. It depends on what games you play, but yes it's still high end.

Rank of mainstream cards right now:

1. GTX 780 TI (higher binned GPU than Titan, 3GB less VRAM)

2. 290x/780/290

3. Titan

4. 7970/R9 280X

FTFY

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I haven't OCed it yet, do you think it's worth doing if it's already so powerful?

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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It's still good. Sell it for a premium for those in desperate need to mine and maybe get a 780? :D

Yes, OC please...

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How much performance would I gain from OCing? I heard that 7970s are crazy overclockers

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How much performance would I gain from OCing? I heard that 7970s are crazy overclockers

If you can overclock to 1150mhz core, you could probably get over 15% frame increase, but it would really depend on the application.
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It's still a beautiful card .. I'm using two of those to run 3 Screens of 2560x1440 each .. All the latest games .. high settings but not max ..

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It would be a "baller" level card for me  :)

 

Nothing you can't just about max out at 1080p. 

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I have the Asus 7970 DirectCU II TOP card also and I must say its amazing, all my games at this current time (BF4, NFS:MW etc) play everything on ultra and always keeping above 50fps at 1920 x 1080....... I've recently flashed the firmware on this beast to the Asus 7970 Matrix Platinum firmware and I must say the difference in fps and smoothness of game play is very noticeable. Hope this helps

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