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Our Gigabyte HD7970 3GB Edition arrived a little worse for wear, although the box was intact and no damage to anything inside.
The bundle includes a Crossfire cable, driver disc and some power converter cables.
The Gigabyte HD7970 3GB Edition is built on a blue PCB and the black plastic cooler dominates the full length of the card. There are three fans embedded into the cooler.
The Gigabyte HD7970 3GB Edition is Crossfire capable in 2, 3 and 4 way configurations.
It takes power from an 8 pin and 6 pin power connector on the PCB.
The Gigabyte HD7970 3GB Edition has a DVI connector, alongside an HDMI port and two mini DisplayPort connectors. It is fully EyeFinity capable.
The GPU screenshot highlights the 1GHZ clock speed, alongside the 1,375mhz GDDR5 memory speed (5.5Gbps effective). The card has 32 ROPS and 2,048 unified shaders. The 3GB of GDDR5 is connected via a 384 bit memory interface.
Its a decent system you built, but I agree, the Intel chips are too tempting and faster systems are available for the same price point as this.
Yeah not moving from Intel im afraid either 3570k is only a little more expensive in UK and id rather have it. Power/heat is important to me.
If they sold it for £100 and their 990FX boards were £99 also, it might be more tempting to me. im interested in the 8 core systems, but they aren’t particularly strong cores so it seems pointless.
Disappointing really. another full year and its just a little better than 8150. its clocked higher which helps, but Intel have so many options under £200 from core i3 and even 3570k
How do things look when you graph performance versus cost?
The AMD FX8350 didn’t even get KitGuru’s “Worth Considering” award. That bad?
And they even compared it to an i5…
can you tell me if this normal 38mm vs 22mm Lithography??
correction 38nm vs 22nm