Whu.... Wow. This is the highest I've ever bought up the food chain. Usually I stick with the mid-range/great value performance cards. I went with SLI'd 6600 GTs back in the day, then a 7900 GT, a 9800 GTX+, and a 560 Ti. They were all around $220 when I bought them.

nVidia has been good to me but I wanted a change. I just wanted to have something new to explore and tweak and seeing as it has been a looooong time since my last ATi/AMD card (9600 Radeon Pro), I thought this would be fun. Plus getting this card for this cheap is just too tough to pass up. I also get Hitman Absolution (which I already have so selling that), Sleeping Dogs (I'm debating to keep it or not - I like what I see but I doubt I'll have time to play it) and Far Cry 3 (might sell it for $25 and buy it in a year when it can be had for $10 at a Steam sale as I have no time to play it right now with my current back log).

not sure if you care but your HD vs Wii, PC vs HD link is broken.

disolitude said: dahuman said: trasharmdsister12 said: I just bought me a 7970 for $350 with 3 games. It should go well with my recent memory (16 GB Corsair Black Widow 1600 MHz OCd to 1711 MHz 9/9/9/24) and SSD (OCZ Vertex 3 128 GB) upgrades. I'm starting to think my 3.8 GHz i7 920 might become a limiting factor in the future. It's still fine if you use it for gaming or media editing, I'd still argue the triple channel memory is better for a lot of the editing software out there. I find it funny when people ask if an i7 or AMD quadcore is bottlenecking their rig. I have this rig with a 3570k and GTX 670 SLI sitting in the livingroom being used only as the Plex media server while due to comfort, lately I tend to play all my games on my bedroom media PC running an Phenom X3 and a 7770. Technically the whole rig is a bottleneck, yet if a game is good, I really don't notice or care... I beat entire DmC on a this rig and had a blast with the game.  720p + everything max 60 fps. Otherwise if i start posting pics of all PCs I built in the last 3 years, I'd have to put a 56K warning. :)

I know what you mean, I've had so many PCs that already left the house, sold, rebuilt and re-purposed, including laptops and I hardly take pictures lol. You just know I fuck around too much when my step dad is currently running an i3-540 with an OC'ed 550 GTi and all he does is browse the web and play fucking solitaire on it haha. I also recently just shipped out an Athlon 64 x2 5000 with 4GBs of DDR2 on a Radeon 5570 for my brother's kind of dating woman lol.....

dahuman said: disolitude said: dahuman said: trasharmdsister12 said: I just bought me a 7970 for $350 with 3 games. It should go well with my recent memory (16 GB Corsair Black Widow 1600 MHz OCd to 1711 MHz 9/9/9/24) and SSD (OCZ Vertex 3 128 GB) upgrades. I'm starting to think my 3.8 GHz i7 920 might become a limiting factor in the future. It's still fine if you use it for gaming or media editing, I'd still argue the triple channel memory is better for a lot of the editing software out there. I find it funny when people ask if an i7 or AMD quadcore is bottlenecking their rig. I have this rig with a 3570k and GTX 670 SLI sitting in the livingroom being used only as the Plex media server while due to comfort, lately I tend to play all my games on my bedroom media PC running an Phenom X3 and a 7770. Technically the whole rig is a bottleneck, yet if a game is good, I really don't notice or care... I beat entire DmC on a this rig and had a blast with the game.  720p + everything max 60 fps. Otherwise if i start posting pics of all PCs I built in the last 3 years, I'd have to put a 56K warning. :) I know what you mean, I've had so many PCs that already left the house, sold, rebuilt and re-purposed, including laptops and I hardly take pictures lol. You just know I fuck around too much when my step dad is currently running an i3-540 with an OC'ed 550 GTi and all he does is browse the web and play fucking solitaire on it haha. I also recently just shipped out an Athlon 64 x2 5000 with 4GBs of DDR2 on a Radeon 5570 for my brother's kind of dating woman lol.....

lol, yeah same here... I just love building, combining, recycling, buying stuff on sale...etc

You should do to your step dad what I did to my dad few months ago. I put Windows 8 on his machine while he was away, replacing XP. I put it on a brand new SSD and kept his old hard drive intact in case the joke didn't go as planned. While there was an initial freakout, after a week he decided to stick with Win8, screwing me in the process cause wanted my SSD back...

Just for shits and giggles I guess, I try to keep my shit lights free, lights get super annoying, and this case really should have came with better cable management design but I'm used to it I guess:

how hot does this get? , everything looks so cramped up.

no I will not :P