Funny, because when people argue the exact same thing I just bold in your response, you quickly snicker and bring out the GTX 470s. Again, an arbitrary configuration that applies to only one person in the discussion, not easy to recreate or obtain, and then some benchmarks are exchanged that mean relatively nothing to the conversation about the perf😛rice ratio of the product being discussed.
Again, I could trump your configuration with two free HD 7970s, but what would that prove? That free is better than costly? Or that I'm a crook or an AMD shill haha. (I'm not, just using exaggerrated counter-points.)
I'm all for someone getting the best bang for their buck, I'm all against people shitting on that because it doesn't conform to their example and thus "LOL, you got ripped off" or some other nonsense trite about being pro-company/anti-consumer.
It's not hard to get good deals on products, it's not my fault if you think it's a rare occurrence.
my 7970 is not loud either. Sure you can hear it at full load with a heavy overclock but loud? No. It's just a whoosh of air sound. Not high pitched at all.
Now if you are manually cranking the fan speed up yes it can get very loud. Not really any louder than my 580 or 480 if you cranked the fan on those either.
Hot? I think not. My overclocked 7970 1125/1575 with stock fan profile barely touches the 80's in games. These are temps we have been seeing for years now and hardly considered anything but the norm.
I think the only way any of us are going to agree with Balla is if we say the 7970 sucks.
Sure his cards are impressive but those overclocks are hardly the norm nor is watercooling.
The fact that it takes 2 of your cards strung out under watercooling to match what a 7970 does easily speaks for both setups. Yes, Balla, Your setup is nice but comes with the draw backs of Sli, and there is a single gpu solution out there that is better called the 7970.
Is your 7970 at 1250MHz on air? Reference air? Let's keep my comments in perspective, I'm already the focus of a witch hunt without adding misinformation to the menu.
No, it would sound just like them, they sound bad too though at high speeds.
We're talking about 1250, not 1125, with voltage added and power draw well over a stock 580.
I never said it sucks, it's good. Nothing better is out currently. It's not the second coming though, and it's not eclipsing last gen by so much everything else just became obsolete. It won't play any more games than what else is out will. It's not cheap either, there better options available for most people at 1200p or lower, 1600p is in the realm of $1000 screens for PC gaming, price/performance is not a factor anymore only performance and the 7970 is the best choice there.
Nor is a $550 video card, look around... There aren't a lot of 7970 users here, there aren't a lot of 580 users here either, many of those who have either only have one of them. Watercooling is about as normal as $550 cards if you ask me.
930MHz isn't strung out, and it eclipses the 7970 @ 1250MHz not *match* which if on reference air is at 100% fan speed on a open bench which would be annoying as all heck in a gaming situation. Everyone keeps talking about Nvidia as if their driver support for SLI is just as bad as AMD's CF support, it's not. Nvidia hasn't had negitive scaling while in SLI like AMD has commonly, and any problems they've had this year such as DA2 were fixed. They had SLI profiles for skyrim before it released, they have AO support for Skyrim, AMD still doesn't even support CF for 5xxx or 7xxx and it took them two months to add it for 6xxx. Don't confuse SLI with CF, they're not on the same level.
