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As a result of the new AMD stream I present to you, 7970s for £230+ here

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As a result of the new AMD stream I present to you, 7970s for £230+ here

 

That's what, 300€?

 

We've had it in Poland for 300€ for two weeks now.

So... If Jesus had the gold, would he buy himself out instead of waiting 3 days for the respawn?

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Wow :/ they've been at £300 for ages now and they suddenly dropped V_V guess we just got them late

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They have been like that for a while in the UK as well mate :).

Actually, if there are still 7970s around after the launch of the 200 series I bet they would go even cheaper :D.

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Okay I'm not a fan boy but the EVGA SuperClocked GeForce GTX 760 2GB w/ EVGA ACX Cooler is $259 and it gets about 3 more FPS better than the 7970.. so those prices arent THAT good if you ask me...

 

 

 

You didn't look very far into this, did you? That's one game. Check these graphs out (from the same source) showing the 760 winning in about 4 of 50 benchmarks. By almost nothing.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/770?vs=854

 

 

Besides, the 7970 absolutely annihilates when we get up to 4k gaming. Which for some is not an issue, but for me (using 3x1080P in eyefinity) the obvious choice is the 7970. Though I would love to try out a Titan in this setup. Now all I need is someone to stop me buying either the 290X or a 780 or Titan as three 7970s is enough....

 

 

EDIT: That's also a stock 7970. This is the graphs for the GHz Edition which is a LOT faster than the stock one, compared against a 770 which is pretty much a 680, which was the initial competitor to the 7970.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/768?vs=829

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Yeah but they were talking about the standard 7970 plus anyone whom is trying to play at 4K with a 7970 is crazy. Its just not enough for anything other than Snake.

 

Actually, I ran a single 6970 on 3 x 1080P and that was... Bearable. A single 7970 on 3 screens is definitely playable. You may have to tone down a few settings but it still looks amazing. For example, a single 7970(OCed to 1125/1575) was getting me a minimum FPS of just over 50 on Battlefield 3. Now I can barely tell the difference between 55 and 60 so I don't complain with that.

 

But, I'm a bit of an FPS-whore and a graphics-whore so I went and got me two more 7970s and boy do three of them pump out the frames!!! (Without all this micro-stutter that everyone's on about. I'm now on two as one card has died and it's definitely existent, but not bad).

 

EDIT: That BF3 FPS was at ultra with AA turned off. Which I always have as 3GB is not enough VRAM to run many games at all with AA on at 3240x1920!

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Actually, I ran a single 6970 on 3 x 1080P and that was... Bearable. A single 7970 on 3 screens is definitely playable. You may have to tone down a few settings but it still looks amazing. For example, a single 7970(OCed to 1125/1575) was getting me a minimum FPS of just over 50 on Battlefield 3. Now I can barely tell the difference between 55 and 60 so I don't complain with that.

 

But, I'm a bit of an FPS-whore and a graphics-whore so I went and got me two more 7970s and boy do three of them pump out the frames!!! (Without all this micro-stutter that everyone's on about. I'm now on two as one card has died and it's definitely existent, but not bad).

 

well i gotta say that any benefit you got with crossfire is a placebo effect on anything other than 1080p, (eyefinity),

it might say more fps in afterburner but none of the extra frames actually show up. (see amd drivers for frame pacing that have no impact on multi screen setups)

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I don't think its such a good deal imo because it is cheaper in other countries:http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202008

But it might be a good deal in the UK if the price dropped by a large amount.

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well i gotta say that any benefit you got with crossfire is a placebo effect on anything other than 1080p, (eyefinity),

it might say more fps in afterburner but none of the extra frames actually show up. (see amd drivers for frame pacing that have no impact on multi screen setups)

 

Yeah yeah yeah, I know about all this crap about frame pacing and it being a failure to run crossfire 'n all.... But I assure you, that if you look at proper graphs, single GPU is quite low, two GPUs is quite high, three GPUs is nearly back down to the same as single and 4 is a little worse than 3 but not as bad as 2.

 

I did my research before I purchased.

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Actually, I ran a single 6970 on 3 x 1080P and that was... Bearable. A single 7970 on 3 screens is definitely playable. You may have to tone down a few settings but it still looks amazing. For example, a single 7970(OCed to 1125/1575) was getting me a minimum FPS of just over 50 on Battlefield 3. Now I can barely tell the difference between 55 and 60 so I don't complain with that.

 

But, I'm a bit of an FPS-whore and a graphics-whore so I went and got me two more 7970s and boy do three of them pump out the frames!!! (Without all this micro-stutter that everyone's on about. I'm now on two as one card has died and it's definitely existent, but not bad).

 

EDIT: That BF3 FPS was at ultra with AA turned off. Which I always have as 3GB is not enough VRAM to run many games at all with AA on at 3240x1920!

I have a 4K monitor and I can hardly keep above 60 FPS with a Titian so I know a 7970 wouldn't run BF3 on ultra. Benchmarks only tell part of the story.

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well i gotta say that any benefit you got with crossfire is a placebo effect on anything other than 1080p, (eyefinity),

it might say more fps in afterburner but none of the extra frames actually show up. (see amd drivers for frame pacing that have no impact on multi screen setups)

 

are we talking about over 60fps was a placebo? Or adding more cards and thinking it was better was a placebo?

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I have a 4K monitor and I can hardly keep above 60 FPS with a Titian so I know a 7970 wouldn't run BF3 on ultra. Benchmarks only tell part of the story.

One 7970 wouldn't, but 2 or 3 definitely would.  Even with 3 you're still paying less than a titan.

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are we talking about over 60fps was a placebo? Or adding more cards and thinking it was better was a placebo?

using more than one amd card for a eyefinity configuration with current drivers

basically you gain fraps fps but all those extra frames will never reach the screen

pcper article

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Frame-Rating-Eyefinity-vs-Surround-Single-and-Multi-GPU-Configurations/Benchm

topic here

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/57567-running-crossfire-with-eyefinity-as-most-do-results-in-even-worse-problems-than-just-running-crossfire-without-the-latency-fixing-drivers/

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Here's how you failed though, 3 card configurations pretty much break all the rules and are even smoother than single card due to the extra fps for SLI and for crossfire, the same reason why 760 4GB version isn't recommended for anything below 3x SLI - the third card acts a lot as a buffer in the three card circumstance and although there isn't much performance increase there is indeed a visual increase.

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