Need your opinion and thoughts ...

[b1ack1otus]

So, I'm doing a hardware upgrade for my computer. After this purchase I don't see myself buying another card for at least 2 or 3 years running.

 

Thus, I'm thinking between Radeon 7970 or GTX 680 or GTX 770.

 

Well to start it off, they are all in the same range in regards to price ... around $400 dollars.

I would say I'm a mild gamer, one of the current games that I play is COH 2. (If I get 7970, then I might get the never settle bundle).

Running on a 1440p monitor.

Might do a custom water loop with the gpu (not sure)

 

Previously owned a 560 Ti and sold that. The reason I'm considering 680 or 770 is because of the geforce experience and I really like it. But I know most of you will think that 7970 is prob going to be the best "bang for the buck". 

 

I'm running a core i5 - 3570k at 4.2GHz... so I'm not sure if there's going to be any bottleneck issue, but my guess is that there won't be any.

 

Let me know what you think.

Also, I don't really want to wait for the new released card because I'm looking to spend no more than 399.99 price tag, and the 9xxx series will probably be around $7xx or at least $6xx.

[Hyydrah]

Because of ShadowPlay I feel that the 680/770 might be the better choice if you'll use it. Get whichever is the better value since both of those cards perform very similarly.

[DyGr00339]

7970 but 770 if you really want shadow play

[DyGr00339]

Because of ShadowPlay I feel that the 680/770 might be the better choice if you'll use it. Get whichever is the better value since both of those cards perform very similarly.

680 doesn't support it to my knowledge 

[b1ack1otus]

when you guys are referring to shadow play, is that like the in-game play shadow of characters or building and such?

[ThunderShark]

There isn't a huge performance gap so it really comes down to what you want with it. Never Settle with amd or features like shadowplay with nvidia.

[ThunderShark]

when you guys are referring to shadow play, is that like the in-game play shadow of characters or building and such?

Shadow play automatically records the past 20 minutes or so of gameplay so it allows for easy gameplay footage

[Hyydrah]

680 doesn't support it to my knowledge 

It will once it's released.

 

"ShadowPlay leverages the H.264 encoder built in Kepler GPUs (GeForce GTX 600 series or higher)"

 

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/geforce-experience-official-release

[b1ack1otus]

so, i just read a little about shadowplay from:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/shadowplay-geforce-experience-video-recorder,23060.html

 

 

and I don't do much recording or sharing video footage, so I'm assuming I won't use shadowplay at all right?

[Allan]

680 doesn't support it to my knowledge 

all kepler cards will support it (:

[b1ack1otus]

Oh and I forgot to mention, noise is another factor that I take into. Just wondering for those of you who replied if you had any experience with any of the card and could say a few words about the noise that would be great.

[WoodenMarker]

You could probably find a 7970 for around $340 so it'd be a better deal.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/powercolor-video-card-ax79703gbd52dhv3

[DyGr00339]

Damit now I wish I bought a 650ti instead of a 7870!

[xAcid9]

Damit now I wish I bought a 650ti instead of a 7870!

 

But 650Ti is alot slower than 7870.  :blink:

 

Oh and I forgot to mention, noise is another factor that I take into. Just wondering for those of you who replied if you had any experience with any of the card and could say a few words about the noise that would be great.

 

Go with custom cooling card like Asus DCU, Gigabyte Windforce, MSI TwinFrozr, Sapphire Vapor-X, EVGA ACX. They're all pretty silence if not totally silence already.

[DyGr00339]

Well then 660 or 660ti whatever 1st shield now shadow play, ugh

[b1ack1otus]

hmm, I was leaning towards the 7970 but after reviewing the customer reviews from ncix, it seems like there's quite a number of people having some issues with the 7970 cards. especially with the xfx one having some artificial problems.

 

It's probably just me, but I feel like nvidia is the safer way and that there's not much problem that will happen. 

[MegaTechPC]

I've owned four different 7970's and never had any issues myself.  As long as you are using one card and don't have any intention of using 3D or PhysX there is no card that is as powerful as the 7970 at $400 or less IMO...

[b1ack1otus]

I've owned four different 7970's and never had any issues myself.  As long as you are using one card and don't have any intention of using 3D or PhysX there is no card that is as powerful as the 7970 at $400 or less IMO...

maybe the people who gave bad reviews just got a bad card.

 

 

and I can't decide from which brand I should buy.

 

I'm currently looking at:

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=70111&vpn=AX7970%203GBD5-2DHV3&manufacture=PowerColor&promoid=1337

or

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=80254&vpn=FX797ATDJC&manufacture=XFX&promoid=1337

or

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=67547&vpn=GV-R797OC-3GD&manufacture=Gigabyte&promoid=1337

 

 

Don't plan on doing any overclocking in my case. And it's mainly between the xfx and powercolor ... cause they are a bit cheaper than gigabyte.

what do you guys think?

[xAcid9]

I prefer PowerColor one because the cooling performance is pretty great.

 

w00tz... They still have Never Settle Reloaded bundle?   :o

 

 

 

Don't plan on doing any overclocking in my case....

 

 

[MegaTechPC]

If you don't plan on doing any overclocking then you should definitely go Nvidia.  GPU Boost takes care of all that for you and will make a 770 faster than a stock 7970 unless you overclock it.  The GHz Edition 7970 also has boost but is more expensive and I'd personally rather have PhysX and CUDA if the price point is going to be the same....

[b1ack1otus]

well, I can do OC, but I think that the game that I play is good enough at stock .. that's why i said I'm probably not going to OC it.