Hd7970 vs gtx680

[alienware]

I had the same problem as you , amd/nvida. I don't have a lot of cash but spent months saving, could not afford another psu only got a 550watt. Spent a lot of time looking and saw a zotac gtx660ti ampt (5 year warr as well) could get away with 550 watt psu, all of the amd's needed a bigger psu/power therefore for me the Zotac won hands down. You do not hear about many problems with Nvida drivers but I am always reading about amd's driver problems. By the way why do you need such a large PSU? you are running a i53570cpu which requires less power than my little old Q6600, strange anyway good luck with your search.

There were (apparently) issues with Nvidia's early Kepler drivers. Something about a RSOD. Thankfully I didn't jump straight on Kepler so I've had no issues whatsoever since August when I bought my first 670.

My issues with AMD were just so numerous that I could write an essay on them. Started with that pig of a 6970 Lightning and just went on. That never played nice from the moment I got it and even after two RMAs I was still having the same issues so I sold it. Oddly the guy I sold it on to had no issues at all.

My biggest gripe with the 7970 was artefacts ON my desktop (my Windows emblem bottom left would turn into glittery squares). That was fixed in later drivers but still the issues persisted. I had a 3D monitor (LG) endorsed by AMD as their 3D solution (using Tridef) and my monitor would become a black hole where the bottom half of the desktop would eat folders (they would reappear after a restart).

In the end I had to disable Sleep as it was what caused the issue which annoyed me because I wanted Zerocore ! that was part of what allured me to them in the first place.

I had no issues EVER with my GTX 470 (see it in the pic with the Zalman cooler on) nor with the GTX 480 SLI that I swapped for the 7970.

I have one issue right now with Nvidia drivers and that's Fallout 3 in SLI. Mind you it's fixed by simply running it on one GPU.

 

[allen]

I literally just turned my 7970 up to 1100 on the core and 1500 on the mem and it worked first time no extra volts... You don't get that easy overclocking with 500's nvidia cards (aparently you do with 600's)... Mines running 4 screens with one card and it awesome... Getting 60fps on ac3 @1080 45 @1440 max settings

 

[alienware]

I literally just turned my 7970 up to 1100 on the core and 1500 on the mem and it worked first time no extra volts... You don't get that easy overclocking with nvidia cards... Mines running 4 screens with one card and it awesome... Getting 60fps on ac3 @1080 45 @1440 max settings

Yes you do. My first GTX 670 Jetstream does 1250mhz on stock volts.

 

[allen]

ive never had a 600's nvidia but then theres is the thing about 670 being a 660 and nvidia are just ripping you off... with the new 680 coming out that should have been the 680... you dont see ATI doing that

(ive also edited the post above)

 

[theAssassin0411]

no

voltage is supplied at 12v plus a ripple. Too much ripple kills things.

crappy oem psus have higher ripple.

They also usually fudge the figures by having a bajillion amps on a rail like the 5v and bugger all on the 12v where they're more needed, while still maintaining the ability to call it a '800w psu!'

Yes but is mine PSU bad??? should I get more performance (FPS) with buying a new one?

 

[yassarikhan786]

Yes but is mine PSU bad??? should I get more performance (FPS) with buying a new one?

A new PSU will not give you any form of increase, unless your PSU can't power the card sufficiently enough.

 

[theAssassin0411]

A new PSU will not give you any form of increase, unless your PSU can't power the card sufficiently enough.

yes that's what I thought, I have an 1050W PSU and have inough cables, so I don't give a shit that I have a ''ghetto'' PSU

 

[Ulijin]

yes that's what I thought, I have an 1050W PSU and have inough cables, so I don't give a shit that I have a ''ghetto'' PSU

You will if it kills your nice new GPU

I think the point the guys are trying to make is that if you're spending all that cash on a GPU you might find it worthwhile to getting a decent PSU that won't fry it.

As for ATI vs NVIDIA, I've had both and found NVIDIA to be less hassle in general, but you pay more for the same performance. So I've chosen to go NVIDIA, guess I'm a fanboi...

My 2 cents.

 

[Noz_God]

If u don't want Physx then get the 7970 if you want it then get the 680 and i know you can get it to work on amd cards but that's powered my the CPU and not as good.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[alienware]

If u don't want Physx then get the 7970 if you want it then get the 680 and i know you can get it to work on amd cards but that's powered my the CPU and not as good.

Just my 2 cents.

It's not just Physx. 3Dvision absolutely destroys Tridef.

Mind you I guess 3D isn't for every one but I absolutely loved it. Nothing like chucking a pipe bomb in Left 4 Dead and watching the arms and legs fly :lol:

 

[marco]

Common knowledge: HD7970 vs GTX670, not vs GTX680, question answered.

 

[FredEx]

yes that's what I thought, I have an 1050W PSU and have inough cables, so I don't give a shit that I have a ''ghetto'' PSU

ReCom seems to be a daughter company of RaidCom who is part of RaidMax. Raidcom PSU's maybe be also seen as SIgma. Just about all their PSU's are made by Andyson. That company makes PSU's for many cheap low end companies that then put their branding on them. They usually are lacking. They don't put out what they claim, their specs they claim don't hold up and they are dirty. Such as 12 volts being more like 11.6 volts. Put the outputs on an oscilloscope and they have major ripple. That ripple is a component killer.

Low voltages can effect CPU and GPU performance, especially if you try to overclock and the PSU outputs get worse. The number of cables it has means nothing, I could solder in a sh** load of cables on a 250 watt PSU, it doesn't mean it could handle the load with many connections made.