Aftermarket 7970 release?

[freshbuilder]

How long does it take for good aftermarket GPUs to come out? I really want the 7970 but I was wondering when good units would come out?

 

[amuffin]

3-5 months? Haven't really started looking at computer components until a few months ago.

 

[joedjnpc]

Supply is pretty limited at the moment, and I wouldn't expect miracles from aftermarket versions in terms of clock speeds, I really doubt you'll see any push the card further than the max overdrive clocks (200 MHz higher on core clock) for a long time or perhaps ever.

What you will get is a quieter / cooler product though.

 

[amuffin]

Supply is pretty limited at the moment, and I wouldn't expect miracles from aftermarket versions in terms of clock speeds, I really doubt you'll see any push the card further than the max overdrive clocks (200 MHz higher on core clock) for a long time or perhaps ever.

What you will get is a quieter / cooler product though.

You can hit pretty good oc's on the STOCK cooler! Think of what msi will do when they put their twin frozr iii cooler on it! My 560ti's twinfrozr ii and hawk both are oc'ed from stock of 822mhz to 1ghz!

 

[joedjnpc]

Yeah you're right, but as I was saying I wouldn't expect to see those kind of overclocks for a long time. So I wouldn't see a point in waiting for the "good units" to come out

 

[freshbuilder]

Can I just add if I should wait for the Ivy bridge? I just watched some tech videos and the guy was like, you cant really take advantage of the 3gb ram on the 7970 cause of the bandwith issues and that you'd probably have to wait for the Ivy bridge so you can fully utilize the PCIE 3.0 slots since its only the ivy bridge that has a 3.0 controller.

 

[amuffin]

Send me the video, I shall go and troll him. There will not be bandwith issues, at all. That 3gb of vram is for resolution, basically if you are playing above 1080P 2gb of vram is needed, but 3gb of vram will not really be needed unless you will play at 5000x2000 or something like that. Regardless 2.1 or whatever runs the 7970 fine and will not bottleneck it at all.

 

[freshbuilder]

Send me the video, I shall go and troll him. There will not be bandwith issues, at all. That 3gb of vram is for resolution, basically if you are playing above 1080P 2gb of vram is needed, but 3gb of vram will not really be needed unless you will play at 5000x2000 or something like that. Regardless 2.1 or whatever runs the 7970 fine and will not bottleneck it at all.

Is it easy to overclock a 7970? BTW my mobo is a Asrock extreme 3 gen. 3

 

[freshbuilder]

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