7970 or 670??

I'd go with the 7970, is usually the better performer in games, and from your links, it is cheaper. Unless you are playing in resolutions higher than 1080p then the 4gb 670 really isn't worth its price premium, if you can find the 2gb 670 for a decent amount less than the 7970, then go with that, if not, get the 7970.

The 7970 is the fastest card on the market. Its a shock that ncidia still prices an inferior card higher. But its even more suprising that people still buy it at that price.

also the 'never settle' promo has just hit australia so i would probably go the 7970 one more thing if i was to O/C would 520w psu be enough10knuckles01

The Ghz edition is already overclocked pretty high. Not sure how much more you could go. If you're into that just buy a reference model 7970 for a lower price and do the overclocking yourself

The reviews that I've seen put the GTX 670 ahead of the 7970 at 1080p. The 7970 only seems to pull slightly ahead at extremely high resolutions...superclocked

The reviews ur talking about are almost an year old. Newer reviews with newer drivers put the 7970 ahead of the 680.

7970

Look at my sig we have like the same PC now brother.

Yeah everything is great and fast, no problems with anything.

looking forward to it!!

7970 cause it's faster.

im getting one of these but cant decide http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=193_1309&products_id=20995http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2172610knuckles01

[QUOTE="10knuckles01"]im getting one of these but cant decide http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=193_1309&products_id=20995http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=21726ronvalencia

[QUOTE="ronvalencia"][QUOTE="10knuckles01"]im getting one of these but cant decide http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=193_1309&products_id=20995http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=21726Elann2008

[QUOTE="Elann2008"][QUOTE="ronvalencia"] 7970 since it supports full DirectX 11.1.ronvalencia

My point is, how many gamers do you know right now that would upgrade from Windows 7 to 8? Let's just start with PC games and PC hardware forum. Many will stick with 7, until they're forced to go with Windows 8 because they do something spectacular with DX 11.1 or make you upgrade because of a DX11.1 only feature.

DX 11.1 aside, 7970 is a good GPU and cheaper than its competitor atm. So if you're looking for an AMD GPU then that's your best bet.

Without a doubt the 7970 is the faster card, why are we even discussing this?? It's the fastest single gpu on the planet atm. And the 670 even costs more?? LOL

You could save even more money if you buy the 7950, give it a light oc to about 1050mhz and it should be significantly faster than the 670.

The 7950 is the undisputed value king atm.

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physX

DeViLzzz

as physX is the most irrelevent argument ever I would still say 7970. physX is in no games except borderlands 2 and that works fine with a decent CPU. the few other games physX is in it dosent do anything worth having.

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physX

Obiwan_1O

as physX is the most irrelevent argument ever I would still say 7970. physX is in no games except borderlands 2 and that works fine with a decent CPU. the few other games physX is in it dosent do anything worth having.

[QUOTE="ronvalencia"][QUOTE="Elann2008"] If you have Windows 8...Elann2008

My point is, how many gamers do you know right now that would upgrade from Windows 7 to 8? Let's just start with PC games and PC hardware forum. Many will stick with 7, until they're forced to go with Windows 8 because they do something spectacular with DX 11.1 or make you upgrade because of a DX11.1 only feature.

DX 11.1 aside, 7970 is a good GPU and cheaper than its competitor atm. So if you're looking for an AMD GPU then that's your best bet.

Same argument was made about Microsoft's DX10.1 while NVIDIA modifies DX10.0 and DX10.1 standards with their own DX10.1 like APIs(1).

1. Example http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2008/10/22/nvidia-gpus-support-dx10-1-features-in-far-cry-2/1

"The Ubisoft team wanted to enhance the anti-aliasing through the reading of the multisampled depth Z-buffers, explained Vincent Greco, Worldwide Production Technical Coordinator at Ubisoft. "This feature was enabled by either using DX10.1 or using a DX10.0 extension supported by Nvidia DirectX 10 GPUs."

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04dcarraher

as physX is the most irrelevent argument ever I would still say 7970. physX is in no games except borderlands 2 and that works fine with a decent CPU. the few other games physX is in it dosent do anything worth having.

[QUOTE="04dcarraher"][QUOTE="Obiwan_1O"]

as physX is the most irrelevent argument ever I would still say 7970. physX is in no games except borderlands 2 and that works fine with a decent CPU. the few other games physX is in it dosent do anything worth having.

Toxic-Seahorse

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"][QUOTE="04dcarraher"] Batman AA&AC, Mafia 2 just to name a few worthwhile physx games.04dcarraher

[QUOTE="04dcarraher"][QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"] A handful of games using PhysX isn't a good reason to buy a worse card.ronvalencia

... As you can see gtx 670> 7970 before 12.11, and even with ghz 7970 before 12.11 was only slightly faster

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[QUOTE="04dcarraher"] Not to long ago GTX 670 was faster then 7970, its takes ghz edition to even gain a reasonable lead even with new drivers. 04dcarraher

... As you can see gtx 670> 7970 before 12.11, and even with ghz 7970 before 12.11 was only slightly faster

the 7970 was clocked really low from the start, not to mention the 670 stock clock is around 1 ghz PLUS it auto overclocks. Its sort of like cheating. If you take that into consideration the 7970 was faster than the 670 clock for clock a long time ago.

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[QUOTE="04dcarraher"] Not to long ago GTX 670 was faster then 7970, its takes ghz edition to even gain a reasonable lead even with new drivers. 04dcarraher

... As you can see gtx 670> 7970 before 12.11, and even with ghz 7970 before 12.11 was only slightly faster