Asus HD 7970 Direct CU 3 GB for sale as auction

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When you look at the R7970 overall, performance, the new Eyefinity updates, PCIe gen 3 compatibility and all other stuff then we can only conclude that we like the Radeon HD 7970 in the enthusiast graphics card arena. For those that embrace multi-monitor gaming, it's for you guys that AMD decided to go for that massive 3GB framebuffer / graphics memory. They could have opted for the 1.5 GB route but with extreme resolutions graphics memory starts to really matter. So it might seem a little excessive, but we are very happy that in terms of graphics memory no compromises have been made.

Overclocking then, again impressive results. The ASUS Radeon HD 7970 DirectCU II obviously already comes factory overclocked at a good 1000 MHz, that will instantly bring you extra performance right out of the box. But there is room left, if you manually overclock without voltage tweaking 1100 MHz is viable. With voltage tweaking 1200~1250 MHz can be achieved quite well. You do need to wonder though if pushing this card to its limits is worth the risk of damaging a 500~525 EUR product for a tiny bit of extra performance. But obviously that's your call to make.

It is time to wrap this review up, we liked the reference R7970, and we like the ASUS HD 7970 DirectCU II. All variables are right, the overall looks, the cooling, the noise levels, the factory overclock ... yeah it's all good.

So aside from cooling added benefits are the factory overclock, the six-monitor output, a quality build, voltage checkpoints and for the pro-overclockers an LN2 cooling pot ready PCB. It is a top notch product, the dilemma however will be the

big three slot form factor. Well, we'll gladly leave the choice in your capable hands. Other than that, two thumbs up.

 

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