well that crazy talk is still in line with the paths NV has been taking. I am wondering why any card maker hasnt been doing 4G cards. I assumed this would be the case awhile back with the 7 series ATI cards but no dice.

Sapphire should soon be releasing it's 6gb version of the 7970.

I'm waiting to see how the new 7850 or 7870 will stack up when released!!!!

HWC has one review card 7970 @ 530 shipped (Gigabyte model)

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/ha ... eview.html

Im waiting on the MSI Lightning, but if it doesnt show it's face in 2 more weeks I'll get Asus or Gigabyte.

And it's not just about being faster, it's about doing it more efficiently!

Ya, the voltage and temperatures look good but I find it odd that overclocked it runs the fan speed at 80%, where as the older/nVidia cards stay around 50%. At stock the fan speed and temperatures look more in line with the gains it's showing thought so I donno.

You can always edit the fan profile, insane speeds often don't make much of a difference anyway.

My 5850 sits at around 72ºC with a full GPU load(folding) and stock clocks with the fan at 30%. I don't think it went much higher when OC'd to the nuts. The x1950 I first GPU folded on would go to 90ºC no matter how high the fan was.

the version of 5850 I just sold had default fan of 20 percent. I bumped it up about 38% so its under the "I can hear the fan" threshold and kept the card @ 30 degrees. Low to mid 40's under load.

The 6970 ICE-Q i just picked up is FAR quieter with much higher fan speeds which I am liking alot. I didnt test the temps yet but I am assuming they should be about the same.

AMD trolling Nvidia? LOL

seen this on another forum.

http://legitreviews.com/news/12443/

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Sapphire To Release AMD Radeon HD 7970 GPUs with 1335Mhz Core Clocks & One w/ 6GB Memory

http://www.legitreviews.com/news/12111/

7770 coming in at 160$ retail and 7750 is at 110$, 7770 is currently overpriced compared to other AMD 6xxx products...A good problem to have for AMD, but that 7770 price needs to come down a bit to be useful.

7850, and 7870 by mid march.

My 5870 still holds it's own with these cards. I could skip this gen easily. I only use one monitor at 1080p
I have my 5870 BF3 stable at 1015/1280 @ 1.337v so far. Temps are 65c at 45% fan speed.

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I am really thinking on retiring my HD5850 and get the HD7870. The price for HD7870 is the same price I paid for my HD5850. Looks like a really nice upgrade path. Plus I am going to get a new 22" monitor 1920 x 1080. to replace my 22" 1650 x 1050 monitor. Do you guys think the 7870 would be a nice upgrade from my 5850?

Having seen the 7870 beat the 6970 in most scenarios, I would say that it's 350$ MSRP is justified (but the whole damn lineup needs to go down 25%)

The 7850 coming in at 250$ MSRP, seems like decent performance though.

I'd like to see how two 7870's in crossfire compare to a single 7970.

Ern, I'd say that for 1920x1200, a 7870 right now is a good choice, but wait until NV hopefully releases a good product at a better price to bring prices down by the end of March. The 7870 beats the crap out of a 6950, which is way better than a 5850

I popped into MB over the weekend and picked up a new 850 psu and eyeballed the box for the 7950.

Much too pricey for me, i dont see dropping over 500 bucks for a vid card. I just picked up a 6970 ice-q for 200 bucks anyways so thats a decent upgrade from a 5850 and for less than i paid for the 5850 , about 150 less.

I wont jump into a 7 series for awhile yet. Least until all the buzz slows down and NV releases a few new cards to drop the price outta the f'n clouds.