Anyone pick up a 7970?

Goku · 2012-01-09, 09:45 AM

I am curious if anyone picked up a 7970 last night on Newegg or other stores. I didn't due to the card being out of my price range unfortunately. I do find these cards more interesting know. At first there wasn't a huge gap between the 580 and 7970, but once you get these overclocked they scream. One reviewer got a 7970 to 1.26 GHz thats a 36% bump in clock speed and lets it almost attain 6990/GTX 590 performance.

Coreldan · 2012-01-09, 10:01 AM

How much was it?

Goku · 2012-01-09, 04:43 PM

Anywhere from $550 to $600. In the coming weeks these will likely go around $650 max due to price gouging on the retailers end.

SKYeXile · 2012-01-09, 04:51 PM

Soon my pretty, soon.

(wont really be buying one until PS2 is in beta, cant see myself needing a more boss computer until then) ...i like to run on max settings..i doubt my current one can, i have to run BF3 on med, but we'll see.

TheBladeRoden · 2012-01-09, 04:59 PM

Yeah, I'm not spending $600 on anything right now

Coreldan · 2012-01-09, 05:31 PM

Holy hell, thats like as much as my entire rig lol.

BorisBlade · 2012-01-09, 09:31 PM

I'm sittin on a 580 atm, honestly unless you just have to have a new card now, wait til closer to beta or game launch when we get to see nvidia's new stuff. At very least the competition should help with prices a bit.

Zulthus · 2012-01-09, 09:32 PM

Fuck that. I'll wait for the price to go down to $300. Anything over is a waste. PCi-E 3.0? Last I heard cards used 2.0... I'm not in the loop right now I guess...

SKYeXile · 2012-01-09, 10:58 PM

hrm 7990 in march yea?

Goku · 2012-01-10, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by Zulthus

Fuck that. I'll wait for the price to go down to $300. Anything over is a waste. PCi-E 3.0? Last I heard cards used 2.0... I'm not in the loop right now I guess...

If you want to be on the cutting edge and have money to blow that is the only way I ever see anyone spending that much. The most I spent was $300 on a 8800 GTS 512 G92 at about the release time thanks to BFG having a $100 promo code. That has been my most favorite card thus far.

@ Sky that is what I am hearing at the moment for the 7990. Now Nvidia's earliest launch date maybe June for their card. Not sure if we will see a midrange product from them prior to that either.

Goku · 2012-01-10, 03:01 PM

There is some in stock @ newegg

Vancha · 2012-01-10, 03:14 PM

I would honestly wait for third parties to put out their own versions (Sapphire, MSI and Asus especially). The only third-party cooler out so far is XFX's and already that can run with an overclock at lower temps, lower noise and lower idle power draw than the reference version.

Then of course you have the fact that the prices for these will be sky-high for at least a couple of months.

SKYeXile · 2012-01-10, 04:46 PM

would touch anything XFX again with a 10 foot pole.

Goku · 2012-01-10, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by SKYeXile

would touch anything XFX again with a 10 foot pole.

I have been a XFX fan for awhile since the Nvidia 7900 series, but the company changed their warranty. XFX totally dropped the transferable warranty (good for reselling) and only a few of their cards now have a lifetime warranty. Like their Black Edition 7970 does, but their regular 7970 is now stuck with a 2 year one. I am not happy with this decesion as it was the major motivator for me to buy XFX. Now I will likely go with ASUS or MSI next if I am looking for a AMD card.

SKYeXile · 2012-01-10, 05:03 PM

Sapphire, never fails.