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Greetings all, it's been a while since I last posted (think it was before Christmas, excluding BF3 platoon question) and I hope everyone is well.
I have a quick two questions regarding 7970 purchasing as I intend to buy a pair in the next ~3 weeks and could use some guidance.
One: What is the current prevailing wisdom regarding 7970 versus 7970 Ghz Editions? The price difference between the two is $40 a card, so an additional ~$100 after taxes; and that's with a sale price, with the normal difference being $20 a card.
I'm fine with purchasing a pair of either, I'm just curious what the better value proposition would be.
Two: How exactly does the Reloaded Bundle work??? I've tried putting a pair of 7970s in my cart on Newegg, both GEs and non-GEs, and the pre-linked bundled coupon continues to say I'll just be getting Crysis 3 and BioInfinite only. The only indication that it might be working is that the inclusion of 2 coupons brings the waived coupon price up to $340, which might trigger my getting emailed codes for 6 games instead of 2 somewhere down the line.
Has anyone had any first hand experience with this purchase situation? Do I need to do something specific or special beyond adding 2 GPUs to my cart in order to ensure I get qualified for all 6 games?
Extra:
Just in case anybody is wondering, I'm willing to put my wallet's faith in a pair of AMD cards for now given nVidia's current pricing bullshittery (680, Titan) and even in their upcoming July driver that supposedly fixes GCN memory management and stuttering performance vis a vis GeForces. Even if the driver fails, I'll just disable Crossfire and have satisfying single card performance. I was set to buy a pair of 670s or even 680s if their price dipped but too many pricing shenanegans have turned me off to the idea. nVidia should really reap what they sow sometimes when it comes to asking for a thousand bucks, so AMD will get my hard earned this round.
I'm also fully aware I'm not running a >24" monitor setup, nor using a power supply that could power 2 x 7970 GEs reliably. As the excellent BenQ V2400Ws are EOL, I'll probably get a pair of 27" 16:9 (may you RIP 16:10, or at least rise from your coma soon) monitors and a fully modular 1000W PSU either with this order, or shortly thereafter. SSDs and the CPU/Mobo/RAM trifecta are for later with Haswell. Hell, I might even try Windows 8.
Any suggestions you may have regarding a relevant monitor or PSU as mentioned would also be appreciated.
Thanks for your time everybody. Cheers!
-FR
I have a quick two questions regarding 7970 purchasing as I intend to buy a pair in the next ~3 weeks and could use some guidance.
One: What is the current prevailing wisdom regarding 7970 versus 7970 Ghz Editions? The price difference between the two is $40 a card, so an additional ~$100 after taxes; and that's with a sale price, with the normal difference being $20 a card.
I'm fine with purchasing a pair of either, I'm just curious what the better value proposition would be.
Two: How exactly does the Reloaded Bundle work??? I've tried putting a pair of 7970s in my cart on Newegg, both GEs and non-GEs, and the pre-linked bundled coupon continues to say I'll just be getting Crysis 3 and BioInfinite only. The only indication that it might be working is that the inclusion of 2 coupons brings the waived coupon price up to $340, which might trigger my getting emailed codes for 6 games instead of 2 somewhere down the line.
Has anyone had any first hand experience with this purchase situation? Do I need to do something specific or special beyond adding 2 GPUs to my cart in order to ensure I get qualified for all 6 games?
Extra:
Just in case anybody is wondering, I'm willing to put my wallet's faith in a pair of AMD cards for now given nVidia's current pricing bullshittery (680, Titan) and even in their upcoming July driver that supposedly fixes GCN memory management and stuttering performance vis a vis GeForces. Even if the driver fails, I'll just disable Crossfire and have satisfying single card performance. I was set to buy a pair of 670s or even 680s if their price dipped but too many pricing shenanegans have turned me off to the idea. nVidia should really reap what they sow sometimes when it comes to asking for a thousand bucks, so AMD will get my hard earned this round.
I'm also fully aware I'm not running a >24" monitor setup, nor using a power supply that could power 2 x 7970 GEs reliably. As the excellent BenQ V2400Ws are EOL, I'll probably get a pair of 27" 16:9 (may you RIP 16:10, or at least rise from your coma soon) monitors and a fully modular 1000W PSU either with this order, or shortly thereafter. SSDs and the CPU/Mobo/RAM trifecta are for later with Haswell. Hell, I might even try Windows 8.
Any suggestions you may have regarding a relevant monitor or PSU as mentioned would also be appreciated.
Thanks for your time everybody. Cheers!
-FR