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Updated pic. I sent the asus 7970 back because of artifacts. Got my ssd and velociraptor installed now, along with 2x MSI 7970s (The rebranded Lightning ones, they actually put black tape on the pcb where it says "lightning" to cover it up).

I had this issue with my 7970s. I discovered only certain brands would boot on my motherboard. I figured it was a bios issue. Solved (well, band aid fixed :P) by buying only the brands I knew worked :P

@Backlash Just upgraded to 13.3 Beta 3 and saw a ~5fps increase. Thanks for the tip. Does my bench look normal for a 7970? It looked a little low to me, I was thinking it could be a single thread cpu speed bottleneck considering I don't have the single core performance of a 3990k.

Single MSI 7970. Probably single threaded cpu limited? Just a guess.

I have not had good luck with the Powercolor 7970 either, I just sent mine back to newegg for RMA because it was defective. Wouldn't work at all.

Thats a lot of storage! :) I have always been a fan of raid5, if you were to put your 11x samsung 2tb drives into raid5, you'd have about 18.5TB of usable storage, and a fault tolerance of 1 failed drive.

Its a workstation for photogrammetry (utilizes GPU compute for some tasks, and uses a tonne of ram), CAD work, other 3d artwork and modelling, but who's to say I won't do a bit of gaming :) I'm almost thinking I may need a third 7970 when I eyefinity 3x old school 30 inch apple cinema...

My work in progress. Dual Xeon e5-2650 (8 cores, 2.0ghz, 2.8ghz turbo) ES cpus 48gb ddr3 ecc ram ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS motherboard Antec 1000W modular psu Radeon 7970 Azza Genesis 9000W case Waiting for (In the mail): 500gb WD Velociraptor 10Krpm HDD 256gb Samsung 840 Pro ssd Second Radeon 7970...