Sapphire 7970 Crossfire Review
Pros: Fastest single GPU, 3GB VRAM, Big Overclocking Headroom, Great refference design
Cons: No backplate, A little pricey
Testbed: i7 2700k @ 5.0ghz Asrock Z68 Fatality Pro Gen3 2x 4 GB XMP 2133mhz G.skill RAM (CL 9-11-9-28) cr 1 60 GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD 600 GB WD Velociraptor Gen3 1200w Antec Quattro OC Edition PSU Driver: 11.12 - 7900 Support Driver 1/9/12 Lets get straight into it with some RAW Crossfire numbers. BENCHMARKS 3D Mark Vantage DX10: STOCK: - VS 22% Overclock: - 3D Mark 11 UNIGINE 2.5 Tessellation: NORMAL - Tessellation: EXTREME - Battlefield 3 DX11 - Crysis 2 DX11 - Max Temperatures on a 22% Overclock using the default fan profile @ 1125/1575 were: Card 1 - 81c Card 2 - 83c Keeping in mind its a summer night here in Sydney so ambient is way up there. Updating the...
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