RussianSensation
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Damn, at these prices I'm tempted to get a 2nd one for CrossFire.
Are you sure your 750W PSU will cut it? That Core i7 930 @ 4.0ghz on its own eats power like a Vegas stripper snorts yayo.
Each HD7970 @ 1150mhz would use 200-250W of power at 1.175V and more with 1.25V.
This deal is killer for sure, that game bundle alone is pretty insane for the price.....If AMD made the MSRP of these cards around that level I'm guessing they would make an absolute killing. From what I gather these visiontek cards are selling like hotcakes at this price.
No surprise. 6 free games to resell and ~ 10-11 BTC / month @ $9 per BTC and this card is basically free in 3-5 months. It's interesting that it took a price cut from $550 to $370 for HD7970 to become a good deal while GTX680 sold out for months at $500. AMD really should work on improving their reference cooler for HD8000 series and working on their marketing. I also think next time they should be more aggressive with clock speeds.
BTW, do you know if there is any benefit to flashing the stock HD7970 with the GE BIOS in terms of improving GPU overclocking? I am reading that it boosts GPU voltage to 1.256V on stock 7970 cards but overclocking on GPUs with ASIC of 70-80% only improves only by about 50mhz (while power consumption skyrockets 50-60W!). I don't know if that's worth it.
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