AthlonXP
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After spending this entire weekend playing around with these cards I am very impressed with the overall performance of the cards. There are still major drivers issues and to be honest I think the whole wait out for new drivers is unacceptable when it comes to being touted as the top of the line video card.
Here is a quick summary of the issues I have encountered (My setup is a PLP Monitor configuration (20x30x20) :
1. When playing various games (Payday the Heist, Skyrim, BF3, MW3, and CS Source) my 2 side 20 inch screens (Which I do not use for gaming.) after about 5 minutes start to disconnect and my game crashes back to the task bar.
2. Originally I removed my GTX 580 and GT520 (Originally used to power my 2x 20 inch screens.) and just put these cards in and with both the drivers on the disc and downloaded I would have windows restart with a blank black screen. (I did remove the drivers before installing the 7970's.)
3. One of the cards fans seems to be squealing when gaming. I think someone else reported this as well. Might be a faulty fan. I did try using just the 1 7970 that did not have the possible bad fan and I ran into the same problems that I described in 1 and 2.
I spent the entire day yesterday reloading windows and running various tests and all of the problems would pop up once again. I used a pair of 6970's last year and did not run into these problems and 1 of the 20 inch screens was using a mini displayport to dvi adapter. Its just very frustrating to have to put up with this until new drivers come out.
Here is a quick summary of the issues I have encountered (My setup is a PLP Monitor configuration (20x30x20) :
1. When playing various games (Payday the Heist, Skyrim, BF3, MW3, and CS Source) my 2 side 20 inch screens (Which I do not use for gaming.) after about 5 minutes start to disconnect and my game crashes back to the task bar.
2. Originally I removed my GTX 580 and GT520 (Originally used to power my 2x 20 inch screens.) and just put these cards in and with both the drivers on the disc and downloaded I would have windows restart with a blank black screen. (I did remove the drivers before installing the 7970's.)
3. One of the cards fans seems to be squealing when gaming. I think someone else reported this as well. Might be a faulty fan. I did try using just the 1 7970 that did not have the possible bad fan and I ran into the same problems that I described in 1 and 2.
I spent the entire day yesterday reloading windows and running various tests and all of the problems would pop up once again. I used a pair of 6970's last year and did not run into these problems and 1 of the 20 inch screens was using a mini displayport to dvi adapter. Its just very frustrating to have to put up with this until new drivers come out.
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