Old faithful Sapphire 4870x2

[Bullmecha]

Well after almost years, old faithful has went the way of the artifacting nitemare. Screen gets all kind of glitchy

Now it's time to choose it's replacement ! I am thinking of either the Sapphire 7970 or maybe going back to Nvidia with maybe a 670. I will need a waterblock also.. ugh

System is running fine with an old school PCI card atm :lol:

Advice welcomed !!

 

[GigaChunk]

If you're going the watercooling option i'd reccomend going for an EVGA 670 FTW because it uses a 680 pcb which means it's compatible with 680 waterblocks, which makes it much more flexible. Also, the 670 has much better price/performance than the 7970, and it's very very close to a 680 in terms of performance. Hope this helps

 

[seumasbeathan]

^ +1 Not much more needs to be said really

 

[PEXON]

If you're going the watercooling option i'd reccomend going for an EVGA 670 FTW because it uses a 680 pcb which means it's compatible with 680 waterblocks, which makes it much more flexible. Also, the 670 has much better price/performance than the 7970, and it's very very close to a 680 in terms of performance. Hope this helps

What about the 7970 with the new drivers, it runs better than a 680 in most games now, apart from games with biased drivers, i.e BF3.

 

[GigaChunk]

What about the 7970 with the new drivers, it runs better than a 680 in most games now, apart from games with biased drivers, i.e BF3.

Really? It's not the ghz edition you're thinking of?

EDIT: my mistake, it seems you were talking about the original. Well, the 7970 is still an option, but personally I'd rather go with nvidia as games tend to favour their drivers a bit more

 

[PetrolHead247]

What about the 7970 with the new drivers, it runs better than a 680 in most games now, apart from games with biased drivers, i.e BF3.

^This. A lot of people forgot about the 7970 when the 680 and 670 came out. Now new drivers and the GHz edition models are out the 7970 is fighting back. Stock 7970 v Stock 670/680 = 7970 just wins the majority of the time. When you OC them both it becomes closer yet, so at the end of the day it all comes down to price. If you can get a non-GHz & non-reference model 7970 that can OC well then you could potentially take it beyond the clock speeds of the GHz models. Imo you should be looking at either the 670 or 7970 and try and find the best deal as there's not too much between them

 

[GigaChunk]

Pick a colour, red or green

 

[seumasbeathan]

The way I see it, the 7970 and 670 perform pretty much the same and the 670 is £30 cheaper so the 670 it is, for me anyway

 

[GigaChunk]

Actually, the EVGA 670 FTW is around the same price (£320) as most reference 7970's, due to the fact that it's a non-ref card. Unless of course you buy a reference 670 and get a piddly little waterblock for the tiny card