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7970 Purchasing Thread

Looks like the last 3 are going fast as well. All will be OOS within few hours.
 
I was looking at the picture of the xfx black closely.. I couldn't see any heat pipes.. and then I looked at the included items. 1 cable is all that comes with it??? kinda glad I missed it.
 
robble said:
I was looking at the picture of the xfx black closely.. I couldn't see any heat pipes.. and then I looked at the included items. 1 cable is all that comes with it??? kinda glad I missed it.
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Yeah, I noticed that also...
 
Kinda glad I don't have the excess dosh to drop on a 7970 (700$+ in Australia) for a couple of weeks, hopefully we'll see some non-reference cards out by then if not more news of them incoming :)
 
robble said:
I was looking at the picture of the xfx black closely.. I couldn't see any heat pipes.. and then I looked at the included items. 1 cable is all that comes with it??? kinda glad I missed it.
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What else do you need? I never use any of the accessories when I buy a video card. Plug it in and go.
 
Got a Sapphire 7970!! I hate buying from newegg since I can get free 2-day shipping from amazon using my free student prime account, but oh well. :D

I'm thinking about buying a second one come tax return time in a month or two. I currently have a couple year old Corsair 750TX power supply on a 2500k system. Would I need to upgrade to a much larger psu? Not sure what all I would need, as the last time I had dual cards was the voodoo era.
 
Argaen said:
Got a Sapphire 7970!! I hate buying from newegg since I can get free 2-day shipping from amazon using my free student prime account, but oh well. :D

I'm thinking about buying a second one come tax return time in a month or two. I currently have a couple year old Corsair 750TX power supply on a 2500k system. Would I need to upgrade to a much larger psu? Not sure what all I would need, as the last time I had dual cards was the voodoo era.
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I'd guess the 750 should be fine for 2 7970s, especially given their lower power draws, and the lower power draw on 1155 CPUs.
 
Went ahead and pulled the trigger for 2 Sapphires 7970s. Did the free trail of ShopRunner for free 2nd day air and no charge "rush" service. These things will be all OOS in no time.
 
Vegasr said:
Went ahead and pulled the trigger for 2 Sapphires 7970s. Did the free trail of ShopRunner for free 2nd day air and no charge "rush" service. These things will be all OOS in no time.
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God I wish this was a option in canada.
 
So will these ship out tomorrow even though release date is 1/12/12? They arent stating that they will be delayed or preorder so they should correct?
 
doz said:
So will these ship out tomorrow even though release date is 1/12/12? They arent stating that they will be delayed or preorder so they should correct?
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Release date is 9th last I heard.
 
Now I just gotta grab a dell u3011, I think ill get on that tomorrow.

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The real questions is how many FPS will I get in SWTOR on my 1080p monitor in the mean time xD
 
Vega said:
Sapphire is one of the main AMD partners, they could have gotten in as much stock as all the others combined. I am glad to see them doing well.
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Ya I noticed that when I grabbed my 6870 over a year ago. They had huge stock.
 
Vega said:
Sapphire is one of the main AMD partners, they could have gotten in as much stock as all the others combined. I am glad to see them doing well.
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Yep and very nice to see all the accessories they include too. Never considered that really until now.
 
Oooh I thought the 12th for some reason :( Cool, Ill wait for Amazon. Got a $50 GC to Amazon for XMas that I havent used :D
 
Purchased one of the Sapphire reference units.

Will put an aftermarket cooler on it as soon as a cool and quiet one releases.
 
Just ordered 2x Sapphire 7970. I am pretty excited and am hoping the talk of custom resolutions with Eyefinity 2.0 are true. I am running a 20/30/20 PLP monitor setup and I figured two cards would be needed to run games at 4960x1600.

I have a Corsair TX750 power supply, and have an HX1050 on the way in case I need the extra wattage to drive these cards.
 
Frothware said:
Just ordered 2x Sapphire 7970. I am pretty excited and am hoping the talk of custom resolutions with Eyefinity 2.0 are true. I am running a 20/30/20 PLP monitor setup and I figured two cards would be needed to run games at 4960x1600.

I have a Corsair TX750 power supply, and have an HX1050 on the way in case I need the extra wattage to drive these cards.
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Are you telling me I can game with my PLP 20x30x20 setup now????
 
I too picked up a sapphire card with the intent of either reselling it (if prices get jacked way up) or installing an aftermarket cooler if I keep it.
 
AthlonXP said:
Are you telling me I can game with my PLP 20x30x20 setup now????
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There's decent rumors of it, but it's still up in the air.

Frothware said:
Just ordered 2x Sapphire 7970. I am pretty excited and am hoping the talk of custom resolutions with Eyefinity 2.0 are true. I am running a 20/30/20 PLP monitor setup and I figured two cards would be needed to run games at 4960x1600.

I have a Corsair TX750 power supply, and have an HX1050 on the way in case I need the extra wattage to drive these cards.
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If PLP does actually come through, you're talking nearly 8MP - 3 7970s wouldn't be overkill.
 
um i am looking at the newegg pics and i dont see any display port inputs
 
Tiporaro said:
There's decent rumors of it, but it's still up in the air.



If PLP does actually come through, you're talking nearly 8MP - 3 7970s wouldn't be overkill.
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Thanks I guess I will wait and see how this turns out. Most of the games i play run like butter on my GTX580 right now.
 
Tiporaro said:
There's decent rumors of it, but it's still up in the air.

If PLP does actually come through, you're talking nearly 8MP - 3 7970s wouldn't be overkill.
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I have not seen anything that suggest PLP is coming, only mixed resolution of the same orientation.
 
If you can do mixed res it should be able to take a custom res. For PLP. I'm waiting to see if can really do PLP as I already have a 20x30x20 setup of dell monitor's. If it can I'm sooo picking up 2 of these.
 
dikky said:
um i am looking at the newegg pics and i dont see any display port inputs
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Ahh, no, no inputs.

Two miniDP outputs, though.

Vega said:
I have not seen anything that suggest PLP is coming, only mixed resolution of the same orientation.
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Yup, looks like it'll do mixed resolution fine. Mixed orientation is going to be the kicker.
 
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