5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Great card!,
March 18, 2012 Ryan - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ASUS HD7970 DirectCU II 1000MHz Overclocked GPU and GPU Tweak Graphics Cards HD7970-DC2T-3GD5 (Personal Computers)
***Issues (04/2/2012)*** I just wanted to provide a disclaimer that others have cards that are doing great, but I've had 3 of these and 3 of 3 have been bad cards. I ordered 2 cards right when they came out and got some from the first batch from Newegg. Then I ordered here after those cards had arrived DOA. The one I got from Amazon just went bad after 2 weeks of use. If you get a working card just make sure that you hang onto all the parts and packaging so that you can return it if you need to within the first 30 days. I'm sure others have cards that aren't bad I'm just surprised that I've had 3 of 3 bad cards. I must have gotten part of the first batch that had a manufacture fault/defect. I've decided to stick with my HD 6850 until there are some GTX 680's with 4GB of VRAM available and then I'll give them a try in SLI.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Expensive but good,
March 2, 2012 michelle - See all my reviews
This review is from: ASUS HD7970 DirectCU II 1000MHz Overclocked GPU and GPU Tweak Graphics Cards HD7970-DC2T-3GD5 (Personal Computers)
+ A very good video card that alows you to play any game of the moment. HD 7970 Direct CU has the best cooling sistem from the 7970 series and you can really overclock it in a safe manner. I have bought it after reading some of the asus video card reviews.
- Expensive
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Good things come to those who wait,
March 30, 2012 Nick (MIAMI, FLORIDA, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ASUS HD7970 DirectCU II 1000MHz Overclocked GPU and GPU Tweak Graphics Cards HD7970-DC2T-3GD5 (Personal Computers)
I ordered this card on February 16th and it shipped on March 19th. This is the longest I waited for a product, but it was worth it. Got it for the $579,- price, I'd rather wait than pay more for it. I upgraded from a ASUS HD 5870 v2 to the ASUS HD 7970 DC II and I really notice the difference.
The main reason I got this card was Eyefinity over 3 monitors with full display ports, lower noise and lower temperature. Factory overclock is fine because those people know what they are doing and I don't. When I overclock myself I get noise/temperature and stability issues, I don't want to waste my time getting everything just right. Eyefinity works on the 5870, but it's just not powerful enough to be a consistent performance.
Eyefinity runs idle @ 400 MHz on the 5870 and 500 MHZ on the 7970. On a 1 monitor system these cards would idle a lot lower clock, something around 157 MHz for the 5870, which would be reflected in lower idle temperature.
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