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I have two 7970s in CF and encountered the same pitch black shadows in FC4. I thought it was a new feature and hated it. Upping the brightness helped a little but ruined a lot more.
I'd sue for everything the hospital has... the most vital medical industry rule, waterboarded with gasoline and lit on fire by a university hospital nonetheless.
Go with the 7970. I'm a bit biased considering I went with one but I was on the same boat when initially looking to upgrade from my 560 Ti. The 680, although a beast, is lacking in raw performance. The 7970 is MUCH more powerful than the 680 but lacks in the Department of Drivers. :D
AMD is...
OCZ Vector 256GB on my desktop. Holds my OS and games. I used a Samsung 840 (non-pro) 500GB on my MBP. They both work really well.
My Vector fried a few weeks ago and so I RMA'd it. OCZ sent me a brand new one. Which is great because I lost my Acronis key so I couldn't redeem the free FC3...
Until they release a new driver that gets rid of microstutter, use RadeonPro in the meantime. I am using it for Far Cry 3, Bioshock Infinite and Crysis 3 (all games I got for free thanks to AMD's bundles :cool:) and it works wonders.
Here's my FC3 profile (w/no visible microstutter)...
GL getting GTA IV to work well. I'm sure the Titan, or even a quad-SLI Titan setup would have trouble with that game. It's just that badly optimized. It's extremely CPU dependent and becomes a bottleneck to itself, especially with long FOVs. I can't get solid 60+ FPS on low settings. It's that...
100MHz can make difference. Depends on what FPS ranges you were getting prior to the OC. 100MHz = ~10FPS, at least on my 7970. So if I'm playing a game for the eyecandy and can't seem to max it out, a +200MHz OC might do wonders in terms of playability.
Anyone encounter a benchmark that compares the performance of the same card with different memory clocks? I'm OCing my 7970 and I've got it at 1200MHz core with the default memory clock (1425 on my Sapphire card). Any OCing of the memory clock causes serious instability. I'm wondering if I'm...
I'd go with the 660 Ti if you can find them at similar prices. 660 Ti uses less power, runs cooler, has more VRAM (and a larger memory bus) and is among the top of Nvidia's priority in terms of drivers--and will be longer than the 5xx cards.