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AMD 7970 vs NVIDIA GTX580
AMD is the winner!
I would figure that most of the 7970's bugs will be fixed by driver updates + You should get a nice FPS increase also:)
When I build a system from the ground up I usually start with the motherboard/cpu....that will determine what type and speed ram you can use:).....Potential pitfalls to look out for.....Incompatible ram, got burned on that once
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Last edited by panais; 11 Mar 2012 at 19:57.
+1 on the socket situation but aside from that it looks awesome and it will look even better with three of these if the budget allows !
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