Solved Advice needed in buying components,7970 or GTX 680?

[AddRAM]

Don`t ya just love it when people reply to an ages old thread. LOL They should just PM people directly to see if they have resolved their problem or whatever the case may be, but Kudos to vspeck for the effort

 

[smarteyeball]

7970 is a better card but there

Actually no, the 680 is - but who's counting ?


It's okay to add to a thread if it's new and useful information that may help others in a similar situation (helps the googlers, not the OP's 99% of the time) otherwise necrothreading is just... necrothreading

 

[shinigami8671]

7970 is a better card but there

Actually no, the 680 is - but who's counting ?


It's okay to add to a thread if it's new and useful information that may help others in a similar situation (helps the googlers, not the OP's 99% of the time) otherwise necrothreading is just... necrothreading

And where is your proof sir? 7970 has better specs so it is better until proven otherwise

 

[vspeck23]

7970 is a better card but there is a bit of a myth running amd with nvidia or intel with ati is a a big NO NO ! amd and ati utilize their gpu's and cpu's together and same with intel and nvidia, and i assume running crossplatform as it would be foreign ?

thats my humble opinion but the 7970 is better with a higher memory module and has something like over a billion transistors

Umm thanks(?) mate
You do know the thread is 6 months old? Bought the 7970 and been more then happy with it since
But still thanks for the input

LOL i completely didnt relise my bad

 

[ShamrockRig]

if you can afford it, R9 280X is my recommendation
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[Solarstarshines]

7970 is a better card but there is a bit of a myth running amd with nvidia or intel with ati is a a big NO NO ! amd and ati utilize their gpu's and cpu's together and same with intel and nvidia, and i assume running crossplatform as it would be foreign ?

thats my humble opinion but the 7970 is better with a higher memory module and has something like over a billion transistors

That is all fooey you can mix and match all you want only thing is if you want a card with dedicated PhysX or you can run it off the CPU with a download from Nvidia it does not matter you can mix and match any brand not one runs better then another unless you want to put Intel soley against AMD

Both platforms can use what ever but when it comes to CPU's and sockets well those aren't compadible with each other but GPU'S are

AMD altogether doesn't work any better then Intel and Nvida all together it's a preference

 

[shinigami8671]

if you can afford it, R9 280X is my recommendation
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XFX Radeon R9 280X DD Black Edition AMD Graphics Card - 3GB - R9-280X-TDBD - Scan.co.uk

Already have 7970 mate It cost me 450$+ a few months ago when i bought it.

 

[Solarstarshines]

if you can afford it, R9 280X is my recommendation
Sapphire TOXIC 3GB R9 280X AMD Radeon Graphics Card - 11221-01-40G - Scan.co.uk

XFX Radeon R9 280X DD Black Edition AMD Graphics Card - 3GB - R9-280X-TDBD - Scan.co.uk

Already have 7970 mate It cost me 450$+ a few months ago when i bought it.

Speaking of which what are your club3d settings anyway Core and Mem ?

 

[shinigami8671]

if you can afford it, R9 280X is my recommendation
Sapphire TOXIC 3GB R9 280X AMD Radeon Graphics Card - 11221-01-40G - Scan.co.uk

XFX Radeon R9 280X DD Black Edition AMD Graphics Card - 3GB - R9-280X-TDBD - Scan.co.uk

Already have 7970 mate It cost me 450$+ a few months ago when i bought it.

Speaking of which what are your club3d settings anyway Core and Mem ?

Here you go,a bit too old but the specs are the same lol

 

[Solarstarshines]

Yeah it's not clocked that high mine is 1165/1540 runs like a champ

 

[shinigami8671]

Yup,dont know how to OC!

 

[Solarstarshines]

Yup,dont know how to OC!

Don't really need to they set you up with a modest one to start with non Ghz 'ed are 925/1375

Ghz .ed some with boost some with out come in at 1050 /1500 others like toxic are like 1150/1600

so you are in the in between as most people on air get a max at about 1200/1600 on water a little higher 1300/1700 the highest but with LN2 core was overclocked sick 1700/2000

There is a video on it

 

[shinigami8671]

Very nice,unfortunately i will be selling my GPU tomorrow
Getting a 7870xt in exchange and a xbox 360 4GB brand new lol. It was too good a deal to pass up. Plus i hear that CFing the 7870's will be faster,especially the limited edition 7870 XT Joker cards as they have the same tahiti chip's as 7970.
Was going to make a thread about it as well,what are you suggestions Solarstar? I can either get 2 7870's for CF, or a GTX 770 (after some thorough searching).

 

[Solarstarshines]

Very nice,unfortunately i will be selling my GPU tomorrow
Getting a 7870xt in exchange and a xbox 360 4GB brand new lol. It was too good a deal to pass up. Plus i hear that CFing the 7870's will be faster,especially the limited edition 7870 XT Joker cards as they have the same tahiti chip's as 7970.
Was going to make a thread about it as well,what are you suggestions Solarstar? I can either get 2 7870's for CF, or a GTX 770 (after some thorough searching).

Single card is always better than two and you would have thew latest GTX 770 SC would be awesome

 

[shinigami8671]

Very nice,unfortunately i will be selling my GPU tomorrow
Getting a 7870xt in exchange and a xbox 360 4GB brand new lol. It was too good a deal to pass up. Plus i hear that CFing the 7870's will be faster,especially the limited edition 7870 XT Joker cards as they have the same tahiti chip's as 7970.
Was going to make a thread about it as well,what are you suggestions Solarstar? I can either get 2 7870's for CF, or a GTX 770 (after some thorough searching).

Single card is always better than two and you would have thew latest GTX 770 SC would be awesome

Hmm,okay,will try to get it or might get two Asus GTX 760's,but it will have to wait,against all my instincts i bought an xbox 360 yesterday,it should be arriving today.

 

[Solarstarshines]

Honestly i see no point in getting a Xbox or PS4 for the fact that my Rig does all that plus

I know there are games out there they make exclusive to the Console but for me i did Consoles from the early 80's 82 to be exact till about maybe 5 years ago

I guess i appreciate the better visuals compared to the one's the Consoles dish out

 

[shinigami8671]

Honestly i see no point in getting a Xbox or PS4 for the fact that my Rig does all that plus

I know there are games out there they make exclusive to the Console but for me i did Consoles from the early 80's 82 to be exact till about maybe 5 years ago

I guess i appreciate the better visuals compared to the one's the Consoles dish out

well i was just getting a good deal so bought it,it has cost me around 200$ for a brand new xbox,and yes i completely agree,there is a huge difference in visuals but consoles do get some awesome exclusives and they are worth playing. Like i have been wanting to play dragons dogma every since it came out,and now i can Its day and night mechanics fascinated me.