7970's. Which one?

[Ironsoldier]

Hai

First of all thanks for clicking on this thread. It means a lot to me if you do help and provide useful support.

My "issue": I dunno which 7970 to get. I have a 3570k and 8gb ram. The resolution I will be using it for is 1600x1200 or 1920x1080. I have £375 for a 7970 graphics card. I'm in the UK. I do like sapphire and the standard 7970 with dual fans from them does look good. Any advice?

Thanks
Nathan

Sorry for 2threads. First one is in the wrong section. :|

 

[seumasbeathan]

Please do not double post - http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?p=548095#post548095

 

[Ironsoldier]

Hai


Sorry for 2threads. First one is in the wrong section. :|

I did post why

 

[seumasbeathan]

I know but you should have instead asked a mod to move the original post

 

[Ironsoldier]

I know but you should have instead asked a mod to move the original post

I had reported it myself saying for them to close/remove it. Forgot about asking to move.

:dammit:

 

[Josh Weston]

It's fine, mods shall do what they have to
To quote Michael Caine, as Alfred, 'Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up again.' and all that good stuff
Heard nothing but good things about the Sapphire OC.

 

[Ironsoldier]

Batman/ Dark knight. I love it. Best trilogy of all time.

Where abouts would you say the bet place to order that would be. Most of the stuff I have now is from Novatech. They seem quite good but the one local to me doesn't hold stock of the 7970 so could take a while to get instock.

 

[PetrolHead247]

Sapphire and Powercolor are (imo) the best vendors for non-reference AMD cards. Cool, quiet, overclock very well and their cards look damn good

 

[seumasbeathan]

Powercolor are excellent imo, I cant say much about their current cards, but I have a 5850 from them and it overclocks great and in the whole time I have had it it has never gone above 53c and 30% fan speed

 

[yassarikhan786]

+1 on the Sapphire card. It is both cool and quiet and to top it off it looks the danglies

 

[Ironsoldier]

Shall get a sapphire with the dual fans.

 

[yassarikhan786]

Nice one mate

 

[WillSK]

As for best place to buy it mate I would try scan.co.uk , Aria.co.uk , Overclockers.co.uk, Ebuyer.com and prob worth having a gander at good ol' amazon too

 

[Saltire35]

XFX 7970 DD Black Edition would be a good choice.

Looks damn nice too!!

 

[yassarikhan786]

The Sapphire card is cooler though. The XFX card is really, really good looking though

 

[dukeReinhardt]

if you're willing to spend 375, the best on the market currently is the sapphire ghz edition 7970 3gb vapor-x. the gigabyte ghz triple fan edition is coming out too. that's within 375. otherwise sapphire dual-x oc edition is good. i'd get them in this order for cards widely available in the uk (so no his iceqx2 turbo, powercolor, club3d):
msi lightning 7970 (as long as you don't require dual link dvi) > sapphire 7970 oc > gigabyte 7970 > sapphire 7970 non-oc > 7970 vtx3d > xfx dd > asus directcuii top > asus directcuii > reference design oc > reference

using a combination of noise, factory overclock, ram cooling, vrm cooling, temperature performance, component quality and voltage overclocking. though right now the ghz edition gigabyte windforce (not the 5 fan) and the non-toxic 2gb sapphire ghz editions look good as i said before

 

[seumasbeathan]

That xfx one is beautiful

 

[dukeReinhardt]

i remember skipping the dd because it's louder at idle than stock cooler, while quieter at load but same temps as stock cooler. poor performance for a non-reference design

 

[Lollipop]

This one -> Link

 

[Yeren]

This one -> Link

Not quite a 7970