DON,
Why didn't you buy one last night?
I wanted "Asus" but i was busy getting laid when they were released and were all OOS when i finally was done.
I wanted "Asus" but i was busy getting laid when they were released and were all OOS when i finally was done. Rumor has it newegg will have MSI 7970's today but we'll see.
My two fav brands are Asus and MSI. I thought about Sapphire but the last sapphire card i had a 4870X2 was a POS and it took 2 months to RMA
I could only imagine having that kind of stamina considering the cards were in stock for near 4 hours.
I think the more accurate assumption is that they had thousands of sapphire boards. Looking at their stock levels @ newegg business, they had a TON of stock of the sapphire and HIS models. This wasn't the case with the GTX 480 from what I remember (tracking the stock @ newegg business) The asus , gigabyte and xfx boards sold out within 30 minutes, I believe.
Its really annoying that so many ebay vultures bought them though. I can only hope that nobody would pay the extra to get one from ebay.
Did you pick one up?
I was just window shopping. I'm actually satisfied with my gtx 480's performance. Can't justify an upgrade at this point in my situation. Not sure I'd even notice it if I went from 45fps to 60fps in BF3. Really anything above 40fps seems smooth to me. Not sure I could see the difference between 45 or 60fps with my eyes if both were playing side by side.
All 7970's appear to be OOS @ NE...
A "HIS" model just came into stock and i snagged it. Should be here tomorrow
Now i just need 2 more
I thought about Sapphire but the last sapphire card i had a 4870X2 was a POS and it took 2 months to RMA
You definitely won't have a better experience with HIS if it needs to be RMA'ed. Actually, you wouldn't even be dealing with HIS directly, but "Lexy Pacific Corp." which is their US distributor. Took them over two months to RMA a card for me.
In my experience though, cards tend to die either early on or after years of of use. If the card dies in the first 30 days you can get it replaced by newegg (provided they have replacements in stock). The HIS card I RMA'ed was purchased from a local retailer that charged extra for "warranty service", such as replacing a card within 30 days of purchase. They are no longer in business.
I'm finding myself pissed about the price gouging on amazon. It's $700 for an ASUS reference card. Guess I'll be waiting a while.
They won't ship to the US, otherwise I would have grabbed one. I woke up this morning and Newegg didn't authorize my sale because there was something wrong with my Shoprunner account. I got it sorted out with a quick phone call, but that doesn't do me any good since all the 7970's are out of stock . However, I was able to hopefully snag an XFX DD off of NCIXUS.com: http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=67171&vpn=FX797ATNFC&manufacture=XFX . They were in stock briefly for $533 and I jumped on it. I called up CS and the gentleman on the other end said they had 10 in stock and they'll go through in the order received, so hopefully I got one. It'll be interesting to test my current opinion of XFX.ncix still has some stock left, including the XFX DD card.
http://ncix.com/search/?categoryid=0&q=7970+radeon
Powercolour and Sapphire are sold out already though.
They won't ship to the US, otherwise I would have grabbed one. I woke up this morning and Newegg didn't authorize my sale because there was something wrong with my Shoprunner account. I got it sorted out with a quick phone call, but that doesn't do me any good since all the 7970's are out of stock . However, I was able to hopefully snag an XFX DD off of NCIXUS.com: http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=67171&vpn=FX797ATNFC&manufacture=XFX . They were in stock briefly for $533 and I jumped on it. I called up CS and the gentleman on the other end said they had 10 in stock and they'll go through in the order received, so hopefully I got one. It'll be interesting to test my current opinion of XFX.
Decisions, decisions. According to XFX, the other version of the DD black edition is handpicked from the top 1% of cores. Whether that is true or not is yet to be seen until overclocking results start coming in. If their statements are just so much hot air, I'll just grab a regular card.
I'm finding myself pissed about the price gouging on amazon. It's $700 for an ASUS reference card. Guess I'll be waiting a while.
Agreed, really bummed about the price gouging at Amazon. Only major retailer I've seen doing it to that extent so far. Unfortunately stuck waiting on them due to lots of gift cards
Ncix is sold out
Yeah, I've got $200 in gift cards for amazon, which would get me back down to MSRP right now.....
RAPE!!!!
I wasn't fast enough for the HIS 7970 and newegg cancelled my order. I'm still on the hunt
Bummer, well at least they didn't charge you for it and make you wait.
On a side note, has anyone's card shipped yet? Mine is confirmed/charged, but not even packaged yet.