[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

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

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

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.

yeah id buy all the dlc anyway so this saves me money and gets me all the other stuff. I am a rabbid battlefield fan since 1942, spent a ungodly ammount of time in BF2 and 2142, nothing like huge 64 man servers with all the vehicles and **** goin at once I love it. Its just a different kind of shooter and ill will play it all the way till end game even though im getting ghost recon next week and halo 4 in the fall they are all multiplayer shooters but all so different I really enjoy each kind.

Also if you play alot add me im Leachalc always lookin for good squadmates

Sorry bout that, i just saw the trailers and went off on a rant, so bummed out :(

PIGNIN

mental retard lock em up!

so much wrong not worthy of explination.

I noticed my GTX 680 is not performing at what it should. For example when all the benchmarking was released for the GTX 680 and the Heaven 3.0 benchmark program most people reported having an average fps of 47. My average is 40fps. I ran it at max settings like them at 1920x1080 8xaa. I tried the newest drivers and the ones before that and the results are the same. My system is; Intel 2500k 4ghz ASUS Direct CUii GTX 680 stock clocks 8gbs of ddr3 1600mhz RAM Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit I think there may be a problem with my card. I even checked EVGA Precision X and the GPU usage is 99% and 53C temp at load, so it's not being gimped. my full heaven benchmark readings were. FPS 40.4 Scores 1018 Min FPS 27.8 Max fps 98.2RyviusARC

The card auto overclocks based on power and temperature this is what ever retard just ignores with its benchmarks it can be totally different every time just based on the current conditions since its all variable.

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[QUOTE="godzillavskong"] I'm getting great performance in games. I guess it's cause I'm playing games and not benchmarks?C_Rule

the point is you can get better performance for the same price, the price perperformance of AMD chips is a myth more cores does not equal more performance. yes it works fine, but anything does, if you want the best though which is what all ppl building their own PCs want then AMD is not the best even if its fine.

wow even I did not think it was that distinct of a difference, the i5 trounces the gaming benchmarks by like >30 frames in every game

[QUOTE="C_Rule"][QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

Where bulldozer excells is running many things at once, as in, a real world scenario. As it stands I have; chrome with 10 tabs, photoshop, dreamweaver, steam, diablo3, putty, youtube, internet explorer, windows media player classic all open and running right now.

All the benchmarks have windows + whatever they are benchmarking, which something that has strong single threaded performance will excell.

I don't care two shakes for useless benchmarks, I care about real world usability and that is where AMD processors shine.

godzillavskong

the point is you can get better performance for the same price, the price perperformance of AMD chips is a myth more cores does not equal more performance. yes it works fine, but anything does, if you want the best though which is what all ppl building their own PCs want then AMD is not the best even if its fine.

are there only 2 dimm slots on that mobo??