Piyush
Lanaya
which contact number did you use?
The one I'm having is all time active (in working hrs i mean)
its 011-26293001
which contact number did you use?
The one I'm having is all time active (in working hrs i mean)
its 011-26293001
here what HD7970 Ghz Ed. with stock cooler can reach at lab temps :
*media.bestofmicro.com/A/P/342529/original/load%20temperature.png
to keep the cards cool the fan really makes some loud noise :
Read these to get a more clear idea :
Temperature And Noise : AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review: Give Me Back That Crown!
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Gets Our Aftermarket Cooling Treatment : AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review: Give Me Back That Crown!
Temperatures And Fan Speed : Sapphire Toxic HD 7970 GHz Edition Review: Gaming On 6 GB Of GDDR5
AnandTech - AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review: Battling For The Performance Crown
so if a HD7970 is what you are looking for better get one with after market cooler but if you have an Ac in room and do like the sound then stock cooler is good
*media.bestofmicro.com/A/P/342529/original/load%20temperature.png
to keep the cards cool the fan really makes some loud noise :
Read these to get a more clear idea :
Temperature And Noise : AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review: Give Me Back That Crown!
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Gets Our Aftermarket Cooling Treatment : AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review: Give Me Back That Crown!
Temperatures And Fan Speed : Sapphire Toxic HD 7970 GHz Edition Review: Gaming On 6 GB Of GDDR5
AnandTech - AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review: Battling For The Performance Crown
so if a HD7970 is what you are looking for better get one with after market cooler but if you have an Ac in room and do like the sound then stock cooler is good
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gameranand
Living to Play
Well I live in Bilaspur where Temperature goes beyond 50C in summer so I guess Asus GTX670 DC2 is the the way to go if it performs like 7970 at lower noise and temperature. And from what I have seen I think that Asus will deliver it, well lets see. Thanks for the information. 
@Piyush
I'll try to contact then at the number you mentioned today. Thanks.
@Piyush
I'll try to contact then at the number you mentioned today.
Thanks.
kapilove77
Padawan
I don't know why you wanna go for kepler card when amd released better drivers that outperform every nvidia's latest card. If your talking about vfm cards amd just made every kepler card overpriced for now. And also ssd is a must if u dont want ur high end pc bottleneck by hdd. I recently bought ssd and i can tell you its really made quite a difference.
Chaitanya
Cyborg Agent
AnandTech - Bench - GPU12
I would say 7970 hands down..
As far as gaming is considered its' somewhere AMD is greater & sometimes nvidia but for compute performance no comparision to AMD one..
OP
gameranand
Living to Play
Thanks for the input. Actually I was looking for more of a specific Review of the card but it'll do.
OP
gameranand
Living to Play
Tried contacting SMC today but I guess because of holiday no one picked up, and tomorrow Nehru Place is closed so I guess my best bet is that they would reply to my email.
For now I am hooked to Asus GTX670 DC2 or Gigabyte GTX670 Windforce 2X.
Alriight guys as per Cilus suggestion I should get a MSI HD R7970 (2PMD3GD5). Whats your say in this and how is the cooler and noise control as the overclocked version of this card of same company having nearly identical cooler makes a lot of noise and is pretty hot. What about this one ??? Is it also like its bigger brother or somewhat better ???
Alriight guys as per Cilus suggestion I should get a MSI HD R7970 (2PMD3GD5). Whats your say in this and how is the cooler and noise control as the overclocked version of this card of same company having nearly identical cooler makes a lot of noise and is pretty hot. What about this one ??? Is it also like its bigger brother or somewhat better ???
For now I am hooked to Asus GTX670 DC2 or Gigabyte GTX670 Windforce 2X.
Alriight guys as per Cilus suggestion I should get a MSI HD R7970 (2PMD3GD5). Whats your say in this and how is the cooler and noise control as the overclocked version of this card of same company having nearly identical cooler makes a lot of noise and is pretty hot. What about this one ??? Is it also like its bigger brother or somewhat better ???
Alriight guys as per Cilus suggestion I should get a MSI HD R7970 (2PMD3GD5). Whats your say in this and how is the cooler and noise control as the overclocked version of this card of same company having nearly identical cooler makes a lot of noise and is pretty hot. What about this one ??? Is it also like its bigger brother or somewhat better ???
NVIDIAGeek
Long Live Gojira!
I'll just leave an input here, can you wait for this upgrade? If yes, you'll be saving a lot on the components you've mentioned in about 2-3 months. Since it's a drought this year, i.e no great games except ACIII and FC3. Good games release in Feb and late 2013, like BioShock Infinite, Crysis 3, Metro: LL and such.
I suggest you wait and watch the prices, especially the CPUs and GPUs. Buy them RAM sticks and PSU but wait for the processor and graphics processor. I heard AMD are coming out with 8xxx series which will match up with your yet-to-buy GTX670 for just 15K. Or GTX670 might get reduced to that much. It's a win-win situation. After all, patience is the key.
But it boils down to your decision. I'll choose 'wait'.
I suggest you wait and watch the prices, especially the CPUs and GPUs. Buy them RAM sticks and PSU but wait for the processor and graphics processor. I heard AMD are coming out with 8xxx series which will match up with your yet-to-buy GTX670 for just 15K. Or GTX670 might get reduced to that much. It's a win-win situation. After all, patience is the key.
But it boils down to your decision. I'll choose 'wait'.
Wait and you will wait forever. Even nVIDIA was claiming Kepler at $200 will beat GCN at $400 or something like that. Well, that never happened, not yet. And given the current economic situation, we can forget about another Radeon 4800 type situation. You will get a lot more performance at 15k with next-gen cards than you presently get, but that's about it.
@Anand: I doubt that cooler will be good enough, while noise won't be a problem at summer or if you use headphones, high temps may limit OC potential. Either increase your budget or settle for either of the 670s.
Even nVIDIA was claiming Kepler at $200 will beat GCN at $400 or something like that. Well, that never happened, not yet. And given the current economic situation, we can forget about another Radeon 4800 type situation. You will get a lot more performance at 15k with next-gen cards than you presently get, but that's about it.@Anand: I doubt that cooler will be good enough, while noise won't be a problem at summer or if you use headphones, high temps may limit OC potential. Either increase your budget or settle for either of the 670s.
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gameranand
Living to Play
Isn't 130K enough for a good gaming rig ??? How much I have to extend the budget anyway ??? 
@Geek
AMD has already launched the new series of 8xxx CPUs and they are not that promising and in GPU department no high end cards are coming so I don't think that there will be much change in prices.
How much I have to extend the budget anyway ??? @Geek
AMD has already launched the new series of 8xxx CPUs and they are not that promising and in GPU department no high end cards are coming so I don't think that there will be much change in prices.
sumonpathak
knocking on heavens door
^^^the prices on Intel should come down seeing the overly aggressive pricing on FX 83XX series...
anyhoo..if you are going Intel way.. i would suggest stick with 2500K cause No games in the near future will use up more than 4 Cores..had it been the case...Intel would have been kicked in the nuts by now by AMD FX series....as for the GPU stick with AMD...they are releasing Drivers like nobodies business and performance enhancement are pretty good..
if i were you i would have gotten an FX+990 setup...and spend extra cash on big a$$ gpu...and save some
anyhoo..if you are going Intel way.. i would suggest stick with 2500K
cause No games in the near future will use up more than 4 Cores..had it been the case...Intel would have been kicked in the nuts by now by AMD FX series....as for the GPU stick with AMD...they are releasing Drivers like nobodies business and performance enhancement are pretty good..if i were you i would have gotten an FX+990 setup...and spend extra cash on big a$$ gpu...and save some
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gameranand
Living to Play
Well TBH for some reasons I don't trust water cooling. What if that damages my other components and all, would that be covered under cooler warranty ??
Please suggest about the GPU which one 7970 or 670 ???
Also if you can please give me link which states that there are significant improvement because of drivers.
Please suggest about the GPU which one 7970 or 670 ???
Also if you can please give me link which states that there are significant improvement because of drivers.
sumonpathak
knocking on heavens door
riight...the AMD fanboy giving suggestion for an 2500k^^ you are sounding like an AMD fanboy
anyway, 50c in summer season is crazy hot and with 2500K Op has the option to go for cpu water cooler ike he should opt for Thermaltake Water2.0 Ext.
am curious as how i sound like an AMD fanboy? pray tell me
check out HWBOT news...also am doing some testing by myself..will update em as soon as they are finished...Well TBH for some reasons I don't trust water cooling. What if that damages my other components and all, would that be covered under cooler warranty ??
Please suggest about the GPU which one 7970 or 670 ???
Also if you can please give me link which states that there are significant improvement because of drivers.
*images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph6393/51037.png
*images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph6393/51040.png
*images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph6393/51041.png
*www.hwbot.org/newsflash/1836_amd_driver_improvement_catalyst_11.12_on_ln2__catalyst_12.11_on_water
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Well TBH for some reasons I don't trust water cooling. What if that damages my other components and all, would that be covered under cooler warranty ??
Please suggest about the GPU which one 7970 or 670 ???
Also if you can please give me link which states that there are significant improvement because of drivers.
AMD Catalyst 12.11 Performance Analysis
The relative improvements for each card are:
HD 7750: +4%
HD 7770: +5%
HD 7850: +4%
HD 7870: +10%
HD 7950: +7%
HD 7970: +7%
HD 7970 GHz: +7%
AMD Catalyst 12.11 Performance Analysis Review | techPowerUp
after price cut by amd still 7970 at flipkart around 33-35k and Asus NVIDIA GTX 670 around 28k (if u like borderlands 2 then special effects made possible only through NVIDIA PhysX technology)
so i think in India 670 is better option
Custom hd7970 does make sense.It is definitely faster than gtx670 and more so when one goes to higher settings.
If overclocking is taken into consideration a good custom cooled hd7970 which can do ~1200MHz+ core clocks is actually the fastest thing to have at lower prices,
ignoring higher memory bandwidth of hd7970GHz edition.One doesn't need matrix platinum edition or toxic edition to have the fastest card if one has a good custom cooled hd7970 which can go high clocks,although it has lower stock clocks..
If overclocking is taken into consideration a good custom cooled hd7970 which can do ~1200MHz+ core clocks is actually the fastest thing to have at lower prices,
ignoring higher memory bandwidth of hd7970GHz edition.One doesn't need matrix platinum edition or toxic edition to have the fastest card if one has a good custom cooled hd7970 which can go high clocks,although it has lower stock clocks..
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gameranand
Living to Play
After looking at all these benchmarks it seems like 7970 is a good option, however I also read somewhere that the new Nvidia Drivers has also bring about 7-11% performance gain got GTX6xx series. Is it true and if its true then what would be your suggestion 7970 or 670. As for now I am inclined towards 7970 even if it means that I may have to skip SSD which I'll then buy after a month or two.
@Skud
As for SLI/Crossfire. I may do it when when the need arises means that games won't run at highest settings on 1920*1080. If thats 1 year then I'll SLI in 1 year and if its 2 years then 2 years.
A good 7970 is actually costing more like 32-36K not 30K to me.
@Skud
As for SLI/Crossfire. I may do it when when the need arises means that games won't run at highest settings on 1920*1080. If thats 1 year then I'll SLI in 1 year and if its 2 years then 2 years.
A good 7970 is actually costing more like 32-36K not 30K to me.