I joke about them but I have no real issue with them. I was impressed with the spec of the 7970 when it came out. I might have tried an AMD GPU again had it not been for Nvidia 3d vision. AMD were far-sighted with the 3gb. Shame Nvidia hadn't figured out the importance of going that little bit further too.
A 7970 is the obvious solution - 5 year warranty aside. The thing about warranties is this: how long are you realistically going to keep the card? I'd suspect 2 years at most, especially with the promise of new consoles in that time, which will presumably (hopefully...) push the bar higher for performance. Thus a 3 year warranty will be ample. Both Gigabyte and MSI do 3 year warranties, so are definitely worth a look. Edit: As do Sapphire and Asus.
new consoles are comming with 7750 graphics is the rumors so i wouldnt expect console ports to be pushing pc graphics much in the long term will require a developer to return the pc as main platform for that to happen.
I won't be keeping the res down,that's the problem. 2500 x 1400 or so is what I'll be playing at, but at lower settings if need be. I've actually never had aliasing active in any of the games I've bought just because of how infrequently I buy graphics cards. Decided the GTX 580 is for me.
Considering whats in the current crop of consoles its astonishing what they do with them, and a 7750 type GPU would be able to do so much more than current consoles, PC games will get a boost as console games will be designed from the ground up with modern features (DX11 etc) and much higher quality textures. If you consider that consoles are the lowest bar, raising that bar considerably will give everything else (PC games) more potential for awesomeness as well, even if its still just a console port.
good choice, you won't disappoint i play BF3 with everything on High, low ground decoration (for spotting prone) no MSAA and it plays at steady 60 FPS, when recording, it occasionally drops down to 50 FPS.
Why not ultra? Hard OCP's review says they benched it at the res of the U2711 running 16x AF, ultra, and got 26fps min, average 40 fps, and 60 fps max, surely you could run at ultra just with FXAA turned off?
i've got FXAA turned on, and wanted steady FPS. BF3 is too fast for FPS to drop down to 25. also, to record, that 25 FPS will be 20 FPS you'll feel the lag.
560Ti runs it nicely at 1080 with all ultra except AA and motion blur disabled fro 60fps average. 580 will do even better won't it. 2 x AA. I was able to run 2 x AA on the 560ti before I sold it but I don't allow fps to drop much below 60 for smooth motion.
Running 2500 x 1400 odd. Was tempted by the sapphire 7970 on amazon for £350, as I paid pretty much the same money for my EVGA 580, but it's the warranty I'm after. Step-up within 90 days (should give some time for the other GTX 6 series cards to be released, or at least have the EVGA GTX 680 come into stock, and I get the ten year warranty with this card too. So either way it's a win win, I can just see how I feel with this card when it arrives, or if I want to spend more.