7970 trade for 670?

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#1 demi0227_basic
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I have a 7970, but would like to trade it somehow for a 670. First off...do you guys think this is possible? Secondly...how would I go about doing such a trade? I can't use Ebay right now due to a ridiculously long dispute on my Paypal account.

Just hoping somebody knows if and how this could be done, as I want to SLI another 670 in a couple months time.

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Why'd you wanna do that?

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I have a 7970, but would like to trade it somehow for a 670. First off...do you guys think this is possible? Secondly...how would I go about doing such a trade? I can't use Ebay right now due to a ridiculously long dispute on my Paypal account.

Just hoping somebody knows if and how this could be done, as I want to SLI another 670 in a couple months time.

demi0227_basic

yeah dude just keep ur 7970, its more powerfull. all benchmarks lie regarding those 670 and 680 cards. The nvidia cards auto overclock so all of the benchmarks are showing a stock 7970 vs OC 670 and 680. No one takes this into account, I mean they are great cards but just go into CCC and drag the overdrive bars all the way to the right, ive never encountered a single problem and I get fantastic performance.

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#4 ShadowDeathX
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[QUOTE="demi0227_basic"]

I have a 7970, but would like to trade it somehow for a 670. First off...do you guys think this is possible? Secondly...how would I go about doing such a trade? I can't use Ebay right now due to a ridiculously long dispute on my Paypal account.

Just hoping somebody knows if and how this could be done, as I want to SLI another 670 in a couple months time.

Obiwan_1O

yeah dude just keep ur 7970, its more powerfull. all benchmarks lie regarding those 670 and 680 cards. The nvidia cards auto overclock so all of the benchmarks are showing a stock 7970 vs OC 670 and 680. No one takes this into account, I mean they are great cards but just go into CCC and drag the overdrive bars all the way to the right, ive never encountered a single problem and I get fantastic performance.

This ^
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#5 rhazzy
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You want to trade a more powerful card for a weaker one?Why?

Does ur amd card has problems so thats why u wanna trade it?:D

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#6 demi0227_basic
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I'm thinking of trading for lower cost and better SLI performance. Thus, I'm willing to trade my 1125/1525 for a 670 because it'll cost less to SLI down the road, and Nvidia has less issues with microsuttering with multiple GPUs. I'm aware my 7970 oc'ed spanks a single 670. If any of you guys have a 670 and want to "upgrade" let me know!
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#7 demi0227_basic
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I'm thinking of trading for lower cost and better SLI performance. Thus, I'm willing to trade my 1125/1525 for a 670 because it'll cost less to SLI down the road, and Nvidia has less issues with microsuttering with multiple GPUs. I'm aware my 7970 oc'ed spanks a single 670. If any of you guys have a 670 and want to "upgrade" let me know!
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#8 rhazzy
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You want to trade a more powerful card for a weaker one?Why?

Does ur amd card has problems so thats why u wanna trade it?:D

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#9 demi0227_basic
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You want to trade a more powerful card for a weaker one?Why?

Does ur amd card has problems so thats why u wanna trade it?:D

rhazzy
Nope. Works great.
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[QUOTE="demi0227_basic"]I'm thinking of trading for lower cost and better SLI performance. Thus, I'm willing to trade my 1125/1525 for a 670 because it'll cost less to SLI down the road, and Nvidia has less issues with microsuttering with multiple GPUs. I'm aware my 7970 oc'ed spanks a single 670. If any of you guys have a 670 and want to "upgrade" let me know!

Nvidia had the advantage of less micro-shuttering in the last generation of cards, by only a little bit. But the trade off is that SLI scales worse than Crossfire does, and this has been confirmed for the newer cards as well. HD 7970 Crossfire = GTX 680 SLI HD 7970 Ghz Edition Crossfire > GTX 680 SLI The range is worse for the GTX 670. You can overclock the 670, but you can also overclock the 7970.
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If you really are dead set on trading your card for an NVIDIA one, why not try going for 680? Atleast it may be more meaningful.
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#12 Obiwan_1O
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yeah i mean any way you can switch ur cards you will lose some money so the like $40 or $50 savings on the second 670 wont matter, plus you get 3 free games with another 7970

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The percentage difference between a 7970 and a 680 (which is more equivalent than a 670) is relatively small. Unless you're absolutely desperate for PhysX or are getting into video encoding, I don't see the need to change.

The 7970 makes mincemeat out of pretty much everything you can throw at it.

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[QUOTE="demi0227_basic"]I'm thinking of trading for lower cost and better SLI performance. Thus, I'm willing to trade my 1125/1525 for a 670 because it'll cost less to SLI down the road, and Nvidia has less issues with microsuttering with multiple GPUs. I'm aware my 7970 oc'ed spanks a single 670. If any of you guys have a 670 and want to "upgrade" let me know!ShadowDeathX
Nvidia had the advantage of less micro-shuttering in the last generation of cards, by only a little bit. But the trade off is that SLI scales worse than Crossfire does, and this has been confirmed for the newer cards as well. HD 7970 Crossfire = GTX 680 SLI HD 7970 Ghz Edition Crossfire > GTX 680 SLI The range is worse for the GTX 670. You can overclock the 670, but you can also overclock the 7970.

But don't games support SLI more than Crossfire?

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#15 ShadowDeathX
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[QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"][QUOTE="demi0227_basic"]I'm thinking of trading for lower cost and better SLI performance. Thus, I'm willing to trade my 1125/1525 for a 670 because it'll cost less to SLI down the road, and Nvidia has less issues with microsuttering with multiple GPUs. I'm aware my 7970 oc'ed spanks a single 670. If any of you guys have a 670 and want to "upgrade" let me know!mitu123

Nvidia had the advantage of less micro-shuttering in the last generation of cards, by only a little bit. But the trade off is that SLI scales worse than Crossfire does, and this has been confirmed for the newer cards as well. HD 7970 Crossfire = GTX 680 SLI HD 7970 Ghz Edition Crossfire > GTX 680 SLI The range is worse for the GTX 670. You can overclock the 670, but you can also overclock the 7970.

But don't games support SLI more than Crossfire?

No. I would assume same amount of support.
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#16 Obiwan_1O
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[QUOTE="mitu123"]

[QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"] Nvidia had the advantage of less micro-shuttering in the last generation of cards, by only a little bit. But the trade off is that SLI scales worse than Crossfire does, and this has been confirmed for the newer cards as well. HD 7970 Crossfire = GTX 680 SLI HD 7970 Ghz Edition Crossfire > GTX 680 SLI The range is worse for the GTX 670. You can overclock the 670, but you can also overclock the 7970.ShadowDeathX

But don't games support SLI more than Crossfire?

No. I would assume same amount of support.

+1

just make sure you get the crossfire profiles for each associated game off the AMD driver website

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#17 beefdog
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If you get the right 670 it trades blows with the680;)

http://www.overclock.net/t/1253432/gigabyte-gtx-670-oc-version-hands-on