MSI R6970 Lightning

[Abomonous]

Anyone have any info as to when this card will be available in stores? Shipping dates? Cant find anything other than the announcment that it's out from the 25th. Thanks!!!

http://www.msi.com/product/vga/R6970-Lightning.html?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d8eabb858191aea,0

 

[Abomonous]

Bump

 

[jjb8675309]

Ive seen it in stores and it is indeed a good card, whats wrong with your 560 sli?

 

[jjb8675309]

yeah that asus is a super nice one, but pretty steep, however more worth it for the money over the msi I will agree, I didn't see the price..

What about the triple slot asus gtx 570?

 

[shrkbay]

yeah,MSI 6970 lighting is pretty nicely OCed, but i'd take Asus 6970 over both, 570 and 6970 lightning

 

[Abomonous]

Utter waste of money IMO

Best 6970

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121430&cm_re=HD_6970-_-14-121-430-_-Product

I have no idea if it's a waste of money or not because I can't find pricing for it anywhere nor have I found it in any online retailers stores or in stores at all. Asus card has nice specs but it is triple slotted which doesn't work for me.

 

[Abomonous]

Its going to be over 400 dollars

Yeah, that is allot of money for that card. I was hoping it would be about $50 less than that since the 6990 is out.

 

[Abomonous]

Ive seen it in stores and it is indeed a good card, whats wrong with your 560 sli?

I already had 1 of the gtx cards before i rebuilt my computer. so i decided to get another and run them in sli and completely forgot the fact that you cant run sli on the 890fx chipset. I installed them anyway and they power up fine and windows knows they are there but only 1 card does all the work. The other one just sits there happily idling away. So im gonna build a sandy bridge system for a friend of mine from work and put those 2 gtx cards in it and im gonna get 2 6970's most likely for this box.

 

[jjb8675309]

you know there is a way that you can run sli on that board, with a bios hack, I believe Nforcemax could tell you... I would strongly discourage crossfire, speaking from my personal expirience the drivers and minimum fps are just not there, sli works a lot better for a dual card setup... If you want a 6970, then I would personally recomend running a single card, just my .02 cents

 

[shrkbay]

actually CF has better minimum frames than SLI

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4254/triplegpu-performance-multigpu-scaling-part1/4

6970s outperform 580s in minimums on crysis

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4254/triplegpu-performance-multigpu-scaling-part1/5

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4254/triplegpu-performance-multigpu-scaling-part1/5

and avg performance also..

and i wouldn't say that 570 SLi is much better

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/geforce-gtx-570-sli_4.html#sect5

+ if not to look @ STALKER, which clearly *like HAWX2* prefers nVidia, HD6970s perform better

http://www.tested.com/news/radeon-6990-vs-radeon-6970-crossfire-vs-gtx-570-sli/1985/

avg fps in 6 games:
6970s : 48,41
570s : 44,25

 

[jjb8675309]

those are a couple isolated games in many other benches ive seen the results were quite different all in all regardless of min fps, crossfire drivers just plain suck, have you owned a crossfire system>? if not then you would not know what im talking about by drawing a conclusion from a review cite

 

[shrkbay]

have you owned a SLI system? i'm pretty sure there's no big difference between them, and yeah, latest CF drivers have been improved..

 

[jjb8675309]

yes I have had a 8800 gt sli system that worked very well whatever floats your boat...