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sridude369

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I am gonna wait for a while for there's no rush for buying a graphic card. I'm really trying to get my first gaming pc and I'm really unsure whether to get a 680 or a 7970. Yes, I do know here at toms hardware that the 7970 is proven better than the 680 but for some reason I just don't like amd cards that much due to the drivers and their problems. But now I heard a lot of info saying that amd cards are gonna be optimized for most of the new games and others that are coming out later. I wanna play mostly BF3 and BF4 (when it comes out), GTA V, tomb raider, crysis 3, bioshock infinite, watch dogs...etc. So whats my best option a gtx 680, a hd 7970 or something else more powerful like a 690?? I will overclock a bit also. Please help me!!!
 
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imomun

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Looking @ the recent reviews I would say Get the HD7970

http://www.techspot.com/review/603-best-graphics-cards/page4.html


Which HD7970? I would say Sapphire HD 7970 Vapor-X GHz Edition


Heres a review of the card for more details: http://legitreviews.com/article/2058/

sapphire-7950-angle.jpg
 
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For BF4 you may want to go with the 7970. The 17 minute trailer was run on the supposed 7990 at 3k resolution at a constant 60 fps. To me it seems that you may want to get the 7970 because of Amd's partnership on the game.
 
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If you don't want an AMD card, then don't get one. You shouldn't let a few FPS in certain games be your deciding factor. These cards are essentially the same, maybe there's an insignificant advantage for the 7970 GHz in a few games, but that also applies to the GTX 680 (Assassin's Creed, Borderlands 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Skyrim, Bioshock Infinite, Crysis 3, etc.).
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_670_Direct_Cu_Mini/7.html
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/evga_geforce_gtx_650_ti_boost_sc_review,13.html

On the other hand, there are some definite advantages for the GTX 680 that tend to get missed when you just take a simple view on FPS averages. The two big ones are unique technologies and driver support.

- For me, and I know the AMD fans hate this, but I wouldn't buy a card that can't do PhysX or Adaptive VSync. With all else equal, it makes no sense to get a card that doesn't have them. I use them and would not want to go without them. There's enough good PhysX games out now and coming out to make it likely you will be running at least one PhysX game, and that's all it takes.
- The GTX 680 will have better driver support for newer games. This was especially obvious for BF3 and will most certainly be the case with BF4. There was also a recent series of articles that exposed excessive stuttering in AMD cards just a couple months ago. AMD came out with a partial fix that applied to specific games, but still.
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/03/04/2012_amd_nvidia_driver_performance_summary_review/5
http://techreport.com/review/23981/radeon-hd-7950-vs-geforce-gtx-660-ti-revisited
 
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uh guys unfortunately we dont have the hd 7970 ghz edition here in india, which sucks! If it was there, i would've actually considered to get the hd 7970! there's only the sapphire hd 7970 oc edition.
 
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thank you so much man!!! probably gonna get a 680 but im gonna have to wait a while!!! And ONE last question please. since the evga 680 is here in india, whats a better alternative?? Here, we only got asus, gigabyte and a lot of zotac cards?? is zotac good by any means?
 
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Get it, then overclock with MSI Afterburner easily to 1125MHz+ Core clock that's even Faster than a GHz no problem.



As my first post : you can also go for the GTX 680 if 1080p But if multi monitor or high resolution 1600p best to go for 3GB HD7970



Absolutely both HD7970 and GTX680 will, if not with 4xMSAA then definitely with 2xMSAA



Get either Asus or Gigabyte. Thanks
 
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