VisionTek Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express Video Card + Sleeping Dogs PC Game Coupon $360 + Free Shipping (expired)

Quote from jays_on : Well, I care about idle temps. And like I said, even with fan at 100% it is near silent. But like BestJinjo said it tops out in the 70's. The hottest mine has gone is 77 after playing crysis 2 for a few hours oc'd on ultra, dx11 patch and high res pack enabled.

When I said we don't care about idle temps, what I mean is they're almost always below what we would consider okay.
Nice! Thanks for the info

So happy! Thanks OP! Been able to build my entire gaming PC over the last 3 days thanks to slickdeals! Just need that Dell U2412 to drop in price again and I'll be set! =)

All the time I had ANY AMD video card it was PITA. Broken textures, no DTS over HDMI, bad shadow effects, can't overscan/underscan, no video out on the other monitor, etc, etc, atc. I can't say that NV cards are 100% bugs free, but they gave me 10 times less troubles. AMD should take care about the drivers and I will buy your products. My 2 cents.

Is this card better than the DIAMOND 7970PE53G that was on sale in September?

Quote from alexr1973 : All the time I had ANY AMD video card it was PITA. Broken textures, no DTS over HDMI, bad shadow effects, can't overscan/underscan, no video out on the other monitor, etc, etc, atc. I can't say that NV cards are 100% bugs free, but they gave me 10 times less troubles. AMD should take care about the drivers and I will buy your products. My 2 cents.

It doesn't sound like you ever had ANY AMD video card because your post reeks of trolololo. Overscan/underscan is as simple as going to the configure screen for each monitor. In terms of multi-monitor, AMD is pretty awesome. You can create presets. In fact on my HTPC, I have 3 different presets for different configs. Click them and instantly change to a diff config exactly like you want them.


Generally I've found AMD cards to be 1000x better for media and general use. Nvidea cards usually are a hair faster for raw gaming power, but slower for normal pc use and historically were absolutely atrocious for any kind of tv output w/o relying on 3rd part programs to tweak resolution, refresh rates, and crap, and still not work after all that.

double cashback for newegg at fat wallet right now

Soo is it true these cards cause forest fires?

Quote from decoys : Is this card better than the DIAMOND 7970PE53G that was on sale in September?

Yes for air cooling. The fan is much superior to the reference design in both temperatures and noise levels. Also it comes factory preoverclocked to 1.05ghz, making it 10-11% faster on average than a stock HD7970 card. For watercooling, it wouldn't matter much as both are voltage unlocked and how well they overclock would depend on silicon lottery.

Quote from compguy : Generally I've found AMD cards to be 1000x better for media and general use.

AMD drivers have always sucked, and this latest iteration of catalyst is no exception... it's a bloated install that requires .net4 to be installed, and the menu on the left side is just as confusing and useless as it ever was... so while amd has gotten the framerates up, they still don't know how to design a functional interface.

until the advent of opencl, nividia was the media card of choice, in part because of opengl support... fortunately that has changed, because amd embraced opencl, which is not proprietary... they effectively forced nvidia to implement it.

the best bang for the buck is currently with amd, at least for now, but they certainly haven't done everything right... i have found that the nvidia drivers are more stable than what amd is offering.

If I upgrade from my AGP HD 4670, will there be any improvement?

Quote from decoys : Is this card better than the DIAMOND 7970PE53G that was on sale in September?

VisionTek card is better with the stock cooling. Otherwise they are pretty much the same when overclocking. This VisionTek card is also ~$50 more though than that Diamond 7970 deal. So it is all relative. Both are good deals.

One snag with this VisionTek card is it is probably not a reference design (someone needs to confirm). That may make it harder to find a water block for it if one cares about that.

Quote from kovy : If I upgrade from my AGP HD 4670, will there be any improvement?

Yes. It will be quite an upgrade. If the new card does not fit in the AGP slot, just give it some force. This is normal and will cause no issues.

Quote from BestJinjo : It's 100% fair since they are currently priced similar to each other based on this deal. If GTX680 dropped to $300 on a Black Friday sale, you are telling me it wouldn't be fair to compare that deal to $360-400 HD7970s? Not sure I understand your logic.

My logic is about a AMD card with the performance of a GTX 680 at the price of a typical GTX 670 deal. And comparing that to a GTX 670 just isn't fair. How hard is that to understand?

And come up with a better example to back up your argument, because that example makes absolutely no sense. I never said anything about comparing a HD 7970 to a GTX 680 was unfair, on a Black Friday.

Quote : Sorry, not sure how anything you said is relevant to gamers/consumers. I am not a shareholder of AMD or NV. I don't care how many times NV or AMD dropped prices.

So you're implying gamers/consumers are stupid and just assume a $360 HD 7970 is the same thing as a $360 GTX 670?

Quote : I looked at this thread, and $360 HD7970 Ghz Edition costs about the same as a GTX670 and it smokes it.

Which is why it's unfair.

Quote : Overclock an HD7970 Ghz and it goes up against a 1250-1280mhz GTX680. GTX680 costs about $450 right now with rebates on Newegg. Is it the consumer's fault in this thread that NV continues to overprice its cards?

Did I ever say it's the consumer's fault?

Quote : You can say it's unfair to compare HD7970 Ghz Edition to GTX670, but since I don't work for AMD or NV, I can't lower prices on GTX670/680.

You don't need to work for AMD or Nvidia to compare their products.

Quote : You can sit here and discuss NV's ability to keep prices high which may benefit shareholders or chastise AMD for dropping prices but the fact of the matter remains as a consumer choosing to buy a GPU now, this HD7970 Ghz Edition offers more value than GTX680 and performs faster than GTX670 at a similar price. You don't think that's fair, e-mail NV and ask them why they haven't dropped prices on the slower GTX670 or vote with your wallet and buy a competitor, and NV will eventually lower prices due to supply-demand economics ! :woot

You can sit hear and argue over nothing but another person's opinion, but I never said AMD cards didn't have better value.

Quote : I never said HD7970 Ghz edition was meant to compete against GTX670.

Quote : It's 100% fair since they are currently priced similar to each other based on this deal.

Quote : The point is this deal is HOT because at a similar price point to GTX670, AMD is selling you a card that performs like a GTX680.

Which is why it's unfair.

Quote : Not trying to be some fanboy here

Oh of course, typing up a 300-word essay in response to another person's reply comparing 2 video cards DEFINITELY does not make you look like a fanboy.

/sarcasm

if i have a gtx 470 is this worth the upgrade? or wait? especially for gw2

How can I know in advance, what cash-back percentage I will be getting at Newegg?