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Bob_Dole

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Newbie here.

Looking at a new 7970, anything against the Gigabyte OC? Seems like a good partner for my MSI (Can't get another, they don't sell them anymore).
Gigabyte runs at 1000MHz
MSI at 1010Mhz, otherwise they have the same stats

Thanks,
Bob
 
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In my experience with Gigabyte, it was an exercise in frustration getting a customer service rep who could understand English, but once I did, they were great to work with. One of my 6950's from a while ago came missing a screw for the heatsink, I called them up and once I got someone who understood what I wanted they next-day'd me a bag of them.

For the clock speeds, you can just overclock the one or underclock the other.
 
Sounds good. I should have bought 2 when I got my first 7970, but wither way I'll be good.

Now I just hope they don't send me the Rev 2 (Non reference) PCB card.
 
MSI has a 3 year serial based warranty, so if you decide to buy used you should still have warranty. I believe ASUS does too. Just throwing that out there if you want to somehow get a second hand MSI card.
 
I've had great experience with a Gigabyte motherboard. Dunno about their GPUs, I would assume it's all under the same system.
 
Well, I jumped and got the Gigabyte, should get here tomorrow. Probably won't xfire them for a while. dedicate one to folding and play games with the other(or so I hope).
 
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