HD 7970 From $370 after MIR, HD 7950 From $275 after MIR, HD 7870 From $209 after MIR, includes games

Quote from werewasslw : Free Gift: AMD Gift coupon: Crysis 3 + Bioshock Inf. (value:$169.99) 169???

The BioShock Inf. + Tomb Raider coupon is listed for $149.99

Quote from BestJinjo : The Sapphire card is worth $5 extra no doubt. That Dual-X cooler will let you overclock it to 1125mhz+, at which point the card is going to be trading blows with a GTX680. Beyond that and it'll exceed HD7970GE for hundreds of dollars less [legionhardware.com]. Crysis 3 is a seriously punishing game on Very High Quality with 4xMSAA [gamegpu.ru]. You'd need 2x HD7950 to hit 60 fps at 1080p. Awesome game bundle deal though.

Till you overclock the GTX 680....

Quote from Jaggsta : Till you overclock the GTX 680....

Considering the GTX 680 is currently running around $460, I am sure dropping 2nd card down the line would still provide greater performance than a single GTX 680. Its hard to beat the performance per dollar that AMD cards offer currently. Now only if they can get out better drivers...

Quote from Slomo4shO : Considering the GTX 680 is currently running around $460, I am sure dropping 2nd card down the line would still provide greater performance than a single GTX 680. Its hard to beat the performance per dollar that AMD cards offer currently. Now only if they can get out better drivers...

GTX680 $425 AR for Zotac on Tigerdirect. Can even get Galaxy GTX670 for $310.

Quote from Jaggsta : GTX680 $425 AR for Zotac on Tigerdirect. Can even get Galaxy GTX670 for $310.

Considering that you can get a HD 7970 for $350 with games, what is your point?

Quote from Slomo4shO : Considering that you can get a HD 7970 for $350 with games, what is your point?

Most all Cards come with games.

GTX680 comes with assassin creed game pack.

GTX670 comes with AC3

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applic...CatId=7387

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applic...CatId=7387

Quote from Slomo4shO : Its hard to beat the performance per dollar that AMD cards offer currently. Now only if they can get out better drivers...

Quote from Jaggsta : Most all Cards come with games. GTX680 comes with assassin creed game pack. GTX670 comes with AC3 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applic...CatId=7387 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applic...CatId=7387

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Pr...618?vs=555
The concept of value clearly eludes you.

With that, I will say good night.

wow, they still have graphic cards w/ lifetime warranty! i thought that was not offered any more.

Quote from Slomo4shO : http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Pr...618?vs=555 The concept of value clearly eludes you. With that, I will say good night.

Now go to another site and watch how its different

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-kepler...s-hd-7970/

http://www.hardwarepal.com/articl...-benchmark

Quote from Jaggsta : Now go to another site and watch how its different http://wccftech.com/nvidia-kepler...s-hd-7970/ http://www.hardwarepal.com/articl...-benchmark

http://www.tomshardware.com/revie...,3232.html

http://www.anandtech.com/show/602...to-gtx-680

http://techreport.com/review/2315...edition/11

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/...0_take_two

http://www.techradar.com/us/revie...601/review

http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/fe...ce-gtx-680

Just returned the Sapphire 7950 I bought a few weeks ago, contemplating picking up another one. The one I had had tons of artifacting issues during gaming, and it seems like a common problem with this card. They can't ALL be bad, though... hmm. Didn't get any game bundles when I bought it, either.

Quote from elohel : Just returned the Sapphire 7950 I bought a few weeks ago, contemplating picking up another one. The one I had had tons of artifacting issues during gaming, and it seems like a common problem with this card. They can't ALL be bad, though... hmm. Didn't get any game bundles when I bought it, either.

Aww dude, wish you still had that original card, just to test a theory!

Listen folks, if you get one of these cards - any AMD card, in fact - and get serious artifact issues I recommend you do a COMPLETE removal of the drivers (manually, Driver Sweeper or whatever it's called that people recommend doesn't work anymore without purchasing it, don't waste your time) and try running version 12.8 without the CCC component installed and see what happens. Haven't tried 13.1 yet to see if they unfcuked things or not, but I will say I installed a later driver, had crazy artifact issues, got scared my card was trashed, took a deep breath, uninstalled the new stuff, reinstalled 12.8 and all was good once again.

As far as the Nvidia troll goes, he doesn't understand the concept of value because he hasn't mentioned the extremely limited OC ability of the 600 series cards compared to AMD's lineup. What's sad is this is an intentional move by Nvidia - they've essentially locked the voltage on their cards to "save" the end user. Heh, thanks but no thanks and fcuk you, Nvidia. Their high end cards are more energy efficient, and their software is light years ahead of the POS that is CCC, but neither of these points is enough to compete with the raw power and bang-for-buck AMD brings to the table right now.

Last thing, if you're going to pull the trigger definitely get the Sapphire, or another non-reference cooler design. The reference design is LOUD. It's loud on the GTX 670 and it's absurdly, laughably and intolerably loud on the 7970. When I say loud I don't mean marginally more audible than case fans, I mean Shop Vac sitting on your desk. I wish they'd do away with this type of shroud entirely. Sapphire Dual-X should be bearable despite the hefty task of cooling a power-hungry OC'd 7950, though.

how does this card compare to the gtx 480?
worthy upgrade?

Quote from Jaggsta : Most all Cards come with games. GTX680 comes with assassin creed game pack. GTX670 comes with AC3

The 7950 comes with 2 not yet released AAA games. AC3 has been out a while.

This is one of the better game bundles I've seen before