No. The preformance difference between those two GPU configurations is simply not worth the upgrade.

Razear wrote:No. The preformance difference between those two GPU configurations is simply not worth the upgrade.

and your info is from where?

not to mention all the other variables,games you play,what resolutions,current and future upgrades,etc...
one plus is ,less power,more vram(depending on resolution) is better.
If you could get a decent price on the 2-470's,depending on that,it may well be a good upgrade.

I'm getting a new screen as well a quad hd 27"

I was doing a bit of research and the 7970 is about 10 to 30 % faster than my 2 gtx 470 in sli vantage gpu score of 24000 for sli gtx 470 and 31000 for a 7970 that with a slight overclock of 100 MHz on the core witch is the same as the oc of what my gtx 470 are running.

If you're really going to do a cross-spanning screen setup, eg, Eyefinity or 3D Vision on 4 27" monitors (I'll take that it's 1920x1080 each commonly), then you should upgrade.

Razear wrote:No. The preformance difference between those two GPU configurations is simply not worth the upgrade.

No offense but do a bit more research. Your statement is biased. I already looked at TPU's review and the results were huge: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_7970/

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=558_1213&products_id=19014 is the screen I'm getting it is 2560 x1440 and at that res the 7970 is only slightly behind a gtx 590 and that single screen

The gtx 470 I have is about 200$ used on eBay

Rachet wrote:If you're really going to do a cross-spanning screen setup, eg, Eyefinity or 3D Vision on 4 27" monitors (I'll take that it's 1920x1080 each commonly), then you should upgrade.

Razear wrote:No. The preformance difference between those two GPU configurations is simply not worth the upgrade.

No offense but do a bit more research. Your statement is biased. I already looked at TPU's review and the results were huge: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_7970/

For the money and the practicality of the upgrade, overall in his case it would not be rational. The two 470s already blow away most games with flying colours, I am assuming he is playing on a standard setup without crazy high resolutions.

Well it depends. If he's getting a new monitor and wants to play at it's native resolution, then I think the upgrade is a way to go, if he wants to acheive the best frames.

It's all about futureproofing :D

Also this is one of the main reasons behind switching to an amd gfx card because i'm kinda sick of the green team cards running hot, and stuff and its a single gpu card witch means less headaches when it comes to cooling and drivers with my desktop i have had quite a few times where i have downloaded drivers beta / whql ones where sli is not working but i roll back drivers and it working. and it not a has to be done now it all depends on how much i can sell my 470's ( gigabyte SoC version) i have found one on eBay for 335$ and they say it is "brand new" so i'm going try $200 and before i send em away im am going to redo the thermal paste on both cards to as5 and by the way if you think that is expensive i live in Australia

i would wait for the gtx 680 and see which is better but the 7970 can run CRAZY 6 DISPLAYS so high res would work better

first thing is for me to get a new screen is im looking for 27" Screens with at least a 2560x1440 or above native resolution
choices are apple Cinema display dell ultra-sharp or a Samsung screen what Eva is better

The Apple display is basically an IPS panel, so I doubt it'll suit you since it's meant for "neat" users. Also consider the price so it's only good if you're a hardcore Apple fanboy. Go with the rest though. Again, do a bit more research on your proposed setup like what monitors to choose so it's perfect for you or consider the highs and lows on the specs used to run these displays setup.

well sorry for reviving the thread from the dead im waiting for screens to have a minimal bezel instead it works out to be more cost effective that way. 22"-24" screens and cost wise it is cheaper than one screen and i don't want to use my gigabyte cards to run em because.

looking at 3x 1920x1080 screens at $175-$250 each compared to a single screen costing upwards of $700 while have less of a Vertical pixel height than a QHD (2560x1440) screen the 3 screens will have a greater Horizontal width. and can make multitasking easier. and i am going to wait till the end of February to mid March to get one because by then Nvidia my have released there new card so then i can make my choice more informed because there both company will have both of there new gen cards out hopefully and the choice of card will make an impact on the screen setup I will be going to buy as i said in one of my earlier post this will be a part of a rolling upgrade.

First 2 pars are display and graphics then the later parts will either be an AMD only if they are to release a better processor than they have out at the current time of this post but i doubt that will happen due to them having sub par development teams and putting development in areas that are potentially useless i for one had high hopes for the bulldozer chip design because of the amount of cache it has and the way they have 2 cores linked with a shared cache and instruction system design.

But it look like Intel is going to stay the leader of the market when it come to overclocking and raw performance, because there new flagship enthusiast line of processes there are videos of i7-2600k reaching 5GHz on air.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lajZi-JAFXA yeah know it on a test bench. but i would like to see an overclock on an AMD bulldozer chip on air on or Hydro cooler ( like the h100)
for the rig when it is completed i'm looking at
a water cooling loop in a 800d
4 120gb ssd in raid raid 0+1 for boot and one game that i play the most 12gb or more gb of ram. 2 2tb drives for data and one blu-ray burner (all ready have)

TL;DR there, make sure to paragraph the post next time.

But anyway. I think you'll be proud having 3x 24" monitors so you could use Eyefinity or 3D Vision to expand the resolution's limits. AS for the rest of the specs, I think it's a good 5 years at least.

I tried to read most of the comments, sorry if i skipped any that brought this up.

Instead of going STi, does you board support crossfire? 2X 7970 would be sick, though, you would need a monster PSU! :P

Also, be sure when buying monitors to get the lowest millisecond response time, especially if you are using a 3X monitor setup. -Preferably 2 ms What brand of monitor do you plan on going with?

-TRM

yes it does it my current board is an x58 board. it can do trifire and 3way sli speed when running triple cards its 16x 8x 8x current cpu is a i7-950 and the cost of doing crossfire 7970 is to expensive at this time $1600 for 2 cards is to much and running 3 screens with one card is easy.