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The best 7970?

The cheapest one.

Quite honestly, they all come with different coolers and PCBs. MSI Twin Frozr, ASUS DCU2, HIS IceQ, and Gigabyte Windforce are all highly favored.

Here's one review: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-7970-overclock-review,3186.html

But I reiterate. Get the cheapest one. If you just want to run stock with a little bit of overclocking, you're getting much better perf/price by going with the cheapest one.
 
I'd go for the GBT Windforce 3x thing, typically $400, sometimes on sale for less. Nice and quiet, 1GHz stock core clock.
 
Well I have the Gigabyte’s HD 7970 OC. And I looked at others before purchase. This card made sense - 3 yrs warranty!
 
Eureka! said:
The cheapest one.

Quite honestly, they all come with different coolers and PCBs. MSI Twin Frozr, ASUS DCU2, HIS IceQ, and Gigabyte Windforce are all highly favored.

Here's one review: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-7970-overclock-review,3186.html

But I reiterate. Get the cheapest one. If you just want to run stock with a little bit of overclocking, you're getting much better perf/price by going with the cheapest one.
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actually no, not the cheapest one, but a card with better cooling fans and heatsinks is a better purchase, axial fans are noisy and inefficient at cooling a graphics card, gigabyte and asus and msi make great cards with nice quiet cooling solutions that work better than reference coolers
 
conghelach said:
actually no, not the cheapest one, but a card with better cooling fans and heatsinks is a better purchase, axial fans are noisy and inefficient at cooling a graphics card, gigabyte and asus and msi make great cards with nice quiet cooling solutions that work better than reference coolers
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A properly-designed axial fan-cooled heatsink can be every bit as good as the "open" designs that have gained popularity recently. Look at the HIS Radeon 7950 IceQ Turbo:
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http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/his_radeon_hd_7950_iceq_turbo_review,23.html
Overclocking wise the card will allow itself to be clocked to roughly 1000~1100 MHz on the core. But that's with additional voltage tweaking. Voltage tweaking will definitely get you higher and we applied 1225 mv on the GPU core. We added 100% fan RPM which is noisy, but for fracks sake we wanted to see what the maximum overclock would be -- and coming from an 800 MHz reference clock, 1125 surely is great. Temps under load stabilized at roughly 75 Degrees C.
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Cooler than any other 7950 tested, and dead-quiet at stock. They turned the fan all the way up (which they claim is noisy, which I can imagine, but unfortunately they didn't include dB SPL levels) for an overvolted overclock, but they still had a good 10-15 degrees C of thermal headroom before the card would be getting uncomfortably hot. (I don't know exactly how high Tahiti dies are rated to withstand, but I imagine they wouldn't be damaged at 90 degrees C)
 
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