- WOW. right out of the box.. i bumped up the voltage all the way up to the 7970 spec.. and right away i was doing 1050 Core and 1450 Mem (stock 7950 does 800/1250), thats' a whopping 31% faster without any effort. i gotta say.... i feel spoiled running BF3 in Ultra with 4XAA in 2550X1440 res (average 45fps). only caveat... the reference cooler does a terrible job at cooping with the overclock. at stock speed, it does alright around 65c in BF3, but at 1050/1450, it jumps up to low 80's. the good news is... the VRM stays relatively cool, even at overclocked speed... in BF3 it only hovers around 85c. which is pretty amazing consider there's no heatsink what so ever covering the Vram, or the VRM…
- This card delivers incredible performance! I just upgraded from an Nvidia Geforce GTX 570 in my sub-$1000 gaming rig build (pushed up to $1100 by this upgrade) and am totally satisfied. This card is killer, outperforms the GTX 570 by about 10fps on max settings 1920x1080 in Battlefield 3 and benchmark articles show it outperforming the GTX 580 by 15-20% in most games (at about the same price!). Also supposedly draws much less power than the previous gen of top-tier cards so you should save on electricity bills vs a gtx 580 or radeon 6900 series. Given the way AMD and Nvidia have been staggering their releases, these top-tier card prices don't move much over time. Notice how a 1+ year old Nvidia…
- PCI-Express Gen3
- 384-bit GDDR5 Memory
- 6pin + 6pin Board Power Connectors
- DirectX 11.1
