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Pretty sure they tried it on a few review models.. No Go.Originally Posted by nugget toes
The first batch of 7950s were 7970s with disabled CUs. Look at the initial reference 7950 reviews of the blower design (overclock3d review comes to mind). It's perfect sense a firmware flash would activate the dormant CUs.
How does someone figuring out how to unlock a card have anything to do with Nvidia or even AMD for that matter. 7970 and it's sister products are still significantly better OCrs then anything in the 6** series.Originally Posted by Captain1337
AMD is feeling the pressure from NVIDIA, especially with cards like the gtx 670 being released soon which matches 7970 performance and is like half the length.
good question.Originally Posted by jtom320
How does someone figuring out how to unlock a card have anything to do with Nvidia or even AMD for that matter.
GTX 680 must be a pretty bad card as well, with it being so long right?Originally Posted by Captain1337
AMD is feeling the pressure from NVIDIA, especially with cards like the gtx 670 being released soon which matches 7970 performance and is like half the length.
So a 670 matches a 7970 which matches a 680, sounds like nV is making the 680 obsolete already...Originally Posted by Captain1337
AMD is feeling the pressure from NVIDIA, especially with cards like the gtx 670 being released soon which matches 7970 performance and is like half the length.
Originally Posted by jtom320
How does someone figuring out how to unlock a card have anything to do with Nvidia or even AMD for that matter. 7970 and it's sister products are still significantly better OCrs then anything in the 6** series.
Well according to HW bot the average 680 OC is 1180 and the average 7970 OC is 1220. Considering the 680 ships about 150mhz higher out of the box I'd say the 7970 is a significantly better overclocker on average and that it's golden chips clock higher. You're welcome to look it up on your own but there are plenty of people here on OCN with the exact same results so you know if you've been paying attention...Originally Posted by Imglidinhere
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Well I've already seen a few reference 680s do over 1300mhz on the stock 1.175v voltage. You're saying a lot of reference, voltage locked, 7970s do +1300mhz? Plus 2 out of...well...2, 670 Gigabyte owners have overclocked their cards past 1300mhz and surprisingly, while having less cores, have smacked the 680/7970 in the face. I see the 670 beating every other card out there this generation as far as sales go, both Nvidia and AMD, if this performance keeps up.Originally Posted by jtom320
How does someone figuring out how to unlock a card have anything to do with Nvidia or even AMD for that matter. 7970 and it's sister products are still significantly better OCrs then anything in the 6** series.
No reference 7970s are voltage locked so I'm not quite sure what your talking about. Anyway I see very very few 680s hitting 1300mhz just like I see very few 7970s hitting 1300mhz. Even if they all did however the 7970 would still be the better overclocker considering stock speeds.Originally Posted by dph314
Well I've already seen a few reference 680s do over 1300mhz on the stock 1.175v voltage. You're saying a lot of reference, voltage locked, 7970s do +1300mhz? Plus 2 out of...well...2, 670 Gigabyte owners have overclocked their cards past 1300mhz and surprisingly, while having less cores, have smacked the 680/7970 in the face. I see the 670 beating every other card out there this generation as far as sales go, both Nvidia and AMD, if this performance keeps up.
Plus, wait till the EVGA 680 Classified drops. 1.8v manual voltage. No one will be able to say the 680 can't overclock after that release.
Seriously. Do you sit on your computer all day looking for threads to clearly display your fanboyism in the most annoying ways possible.Originally Posted by jtom320
Well according to HW bot the average 680 OC is 1180 and the average 7970 OC is 1220. Considering the 680 ships about 150mhz higher out of the box I'd say the 7970 is a significantly better overclocker on average and that it's golden chips clock higher. You're welcome to look it up on your own but there are plenty of people here on OCN with the exact same results so you know if you've been paying attention...
Also considering the 680 is voltage locked and ships with a 4 phase VRM it would seem to me that any PC enthusiast with a brain would assume out of the gate the 680 is not going to reach the levels of it's voltage unlocked competitors.
Also you don't need to bother yourself responding to this. I already know I'm right and I'm not going to argue with you.
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Well according to HW bot the average 680 OC is 1180 and the average 7970 OC is 1220. Considering the 680 ships about 150mhz higher out of the box I'd say the 7970 is a significantly better overclocker on average and that it's golden chips clock higher. You're welcome to look it up on your own but there are plenty of people here on OCN with the exact same results so you know if you've been paying attention...Originally Posted by Imglidinhere
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Also considering the 680 is voltage locked and ships with a 4 phase VRM it would seem to me that any PC enthusiast with a brain would assume out of the gate the 680 is not going to reach the levels of it's voltage unlocked competitors.
Also you don't need to bother yourself responding to this. I already know I'm right and I'm not going to argue with you.
Your 7970 can get above 11298 GPU score in 3DMark11?Originally Posted by jtom320
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No reference 7970s are voltage locked so I'm not quite sure what your talking about. Anyway I see very very few 680s hitting 1300mhz just like I see very few 7970s hitting 1300mhz. Even if they all did however the 7970 would still be the better overclocker considering stock speeds.Originally Posted by dph314
Well I've already seen a few reference 680s do over 1300mhz on the stock 1.175v voltage. You're saying a lot of reference, voltage locked, 7970s do +1300mhz? Plus 2 out of...well...2, 670 Gigabyte owners have overclocked their cards past 1300mhz and surprisingly, while having less cores, have smacked the 680/7970 in the face. I see the 670 beating every other card out there this generation as far as sales go, both Nvidia and AMD, if this performance keeps up.
Plus, wait till the EVGA 680 Classified drops. 1.8v manual voltage. No one will be able to say the 680 can't overclock after that release.
That's why we do averages though my friend. Because anecdotal evidence means nothing. 100+ people submitting their OC's and coming up with an average does however. You should take a statistics class.
Also GPU manufacturers never release sales numbers so speculating about them is a waste of time. You and I will never know one way or another. What I do know however is that top-end cards are never good sellers and the 78** series and 660 and below will outsell the higher end cards by quite a large margin by the time it's over.
Oh yeah you're the one who's convinced me my two 480s my two 580s and my 465 and zero AMD cards hates Nvidia.Originally Posted by ezikiel12
Seriously. Do you sit on your computer all day looking for threads to clearly display your fanboyism in the most annoying ways possible.
Symptoms of a useless troll:
- fanboy
- attitude
- annoying
