TheReproducer
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Your "single" 7970 works fine. Awesome. But you have no experience with CF in the 7970 series, judging from your post. Your 6900 series CF experience does not transfer nor apply. It "should" but it does not, because the drivers are so bad for the 7900 series cards. The amount of issues I encountered with CF and Eyefinity on the 2 7970s I bought was ridiculous.
I don't know what AMD did to their drivers, but they jacked up CF and Eyefinity badly. So badly, in fact, that I just returned them and went back to my old 460s until AMD gets their shit together (doubtful) or Nvidia releases their new cards. I'm not willing to wait around with $1100 worth of electronics that may or may not actually work correctly in the games I play at some distant point in time..
The issues I encountered in the short time I owned them included, but was not limited to:
Stuttering and dropped frames (Star Wars TOR, which went away if I turned off CF and Eyefinity)
Tearing... bad tearing (every game)
Graphical glitches (Skyrim)
Graphical glitches and anomolies (Civ 4)
Poor performance (Dungeon Defenders)
Did I mention tearing?, Eyefinity broken, general poor performance (Dungeon Siege 3)
during boot, I never even got to see the POST process because the damn cards took so long to sync with my monitors. That's just unacceptable.
And in case you're wondering, this is all after I reinstalled Windows....
After I sent those cards back, I reinstalled Windows again, reinstalled all my games... and all those problems listed above went away. Sure, my framerates might not be great with my 460s, but framerate isn't everything. Hassle free and glitch free gaming is more important to me because that's what I got these for.
What I won't do is proclaim the 7900 series as "borderline deffective" because of it.
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1665063 was my 7970, since returned. You people... Wow. I'm no fanboy, I try what is good at the time and return it if it sucks. The 7950 I am now using is going back soon... Ulps issues ahoy! Still I wonder why you're in the nvidia forum when you clearly don't care for them or care at all about gk104?
I'm confused and somewhat startled!
Haha .
Sounds like a plan .
Welp GT, I apologize about the somewhat inflammatory comment earlier. I guess we all have our reasons for rooting for the brands that we do, I like rooting for the underdog and i'm sure you have your reasons as well. I can totally understand why some people really like nvidia, they really built a great user experience with their products. I do stress that performance trumps all of this, for the past 3 generations i've always bought nvidia cards because they beat ATI (except for 5870), even though I do like pulling for ATI/AMD. There, so sue me You got your reasons. I do look forward to GK104 though, hopefully the answers will be put to rest soon
I'd almost interpret that to mean that that *IS* the release date. But I do tend to over(mis)analyze things.
I was wondering/hoping the same thing!
I appreciate your apology , and we'll have to just agree to disagree as you said.
I was wondering/hoping the same thing!
God damn you pansies...!!! Stop giving each other reach-arounds and keep on fighting like real fan-boys!!!!
/hides in the bushes...
Olivon said:
March 23rd?
http://www.techpowerup.com/161587/GK104-Based-Products-Arriving-March-23.html
and...
Large fan cut-out...
...with stacked PCI-E power connectors to add more room for it?
Interesting.
Sources originally from (have been taken down now):
Thanks Olivon of XS for finding these.
March 23rd?
Large fan cut-out... [img]http://i...gantuan that would hard to fit in some cases.
The middle of this month is going to suck....for 7900 owners.
https://www.facebook.com/NVIDIAItalia/posts/262841833792337
I don't think anyone is projecting gk104 to beat 7970, and even if it does, who cares? You're not going to sperg over PC hardware are you?
Geez.. I hope they will ditch this stacked power sockets idea....
Aren't you under NDA or something?
Aren't you under NDA or something?
Geez.. I hope they will ditch this stacked power sockets idea....
Why? The stacked DVI makes any single slot asperation pointless, anyways. Speculation points towards this being the second highest card, so SLI wouldn't even be very high on the importance list.