The Asus HD7970-DC2-3GD5 and MSI R7970 Lightning; the solution for tearing in the 79XX family

[BirdOtt]

Well, I made a BIG purchase today. Not what you are thinking! I bought a new Hyundai Santa Fe! :)
My 9 year old van has 260,000 KMs on it and is rusting from the salt used to keep the streets free of ice. I am still waiting for the DirectCUII cards to be in stock. I have "almost" decided to get a single ASUS HD7970 DirectCUII at this time. If it works out well, GREAT. If not, Kepler is coming soon too. :)

[CY:G]

Im considering getting this card(whenever they are available), my question is, can i just use one DP - DVI active adapter with this card and another 2 DVI monitors no problem?

[Wijkert]

Im considering getting this card(whenever they are available), my question is, can i just use one DP - DVI active adapter with this card and another 2 DVI monitors no problem?

Yes you can, but I believe one of the two dvi connectors has a maximum resolution output of 1920x1080. So the question is what monitors are you planning to connect this card to?

[Haldi]

[quote]Im considering getting this card(whenever they are available), my question is, can i just use one DP - DVI active adapter with this card and another 2 DVI monitors no problem?

Yes you can, but I believe one of the two dvi connectors has a maximum resolution output of 1920x1080. So the question is what monitors are you planning to connect this card to?


No Way????
A Normal 7970 has 2TMDS with 4 Signals, for DL-DVI you need 2 signals. I don't think that ASUS modified the card that there is only 1 TMDS (equal 2x SL-DVI)
Other possibility is that 2nd DVI Slot has only 1 Signal and 2nd signal is for DP so that you could use passive DVI/HDMI adapters. But i dont think so! imho

[compres]

I think that was an issue with the previous DCII, aka the 6970. The new one has 2 full dual link DVI connectors, last I checked.

Anyhow, I pre-ordered this card yesterday (Germany) I will post when it arrives.

[Moose]

Just got back from a short holiday, my card hasn't arrived yet (Netherlands)

Moose

[sparx1981]

So Moose, you managed to order one of these cards then? Just out of curiousity I've kept an eye out for them here in the UK but still haven't seen them being available.
How much did you end up paying?

[sparx1981]

So Moose, you managed to order one of these cards then? Just out of curiousity I've kept an eye out for them here in the UK but still haven't seen them being available.
How much did you end up paying?

[Moose]

Like I said in the previous post, I ordered one. It costs me 517 euro for the card and 73,40 for the adapters

[compres]

My card got delayed 2 to 3 weeks...

Any updates from anyone else here?

[BirdOtt]

The newegg,com and .ca sites still state out-of-stock with no time indication. They state "This product is currently unavailable."

[Paradigm Shifter]

My bet is that Asus have pulled cards from retailers due to this problem:

http://www.behardware.com/news/12153/asus-hd-7950-directcu-ii-fault-report.html

Seems like the heatsink is so heavy that it will pull off the GPU, resulting in insane temps...

[BirdOtt]

NEWEGG.com just advised me that "The ASUS HD7970-DC2T-3GD5 has come in stock as of 02/29/2012.

[BirdOtt]

Thanks Paradigm Shifter for this BAD news. :) This may help explain the delay in the release of the HD7970 DC2T model which was previously attributed to voltage regulation, I believe. Given that Newegg.com just advised me that the HD7970 DC2T model is now available (but the web site still says out of stock when I checked minutes ago), I hope that means they have resolved the problems that caused the delay. However if the 7950 directcu II version is faulty as the article indicates, then perhaps we should wait and see before buying one. That's what I am going to do. DAMN. :)

[compres]

Thanks for the info guys.

I suspect it was resolved since otherwise 3 weeks on top of an already late product would seem excessive. I am waiting for the T model, the regular one is actually stated to be available in 8 days at this particular store in Germany.

[BirdOtt]

Hi compres

I truly hope your suspicions are correct; however, I am not willing to make that assumption just yet and spend over $600 to find out it has not been fixed. Therefore, I shall be patient once again and wait to see what the experience of other users will be.

I have started to buy the components for my new system. So far I have ASUS DVD R/W, ASUS Blu-ray R/W, Corsair H100 cooler, Corsair AX1200 PSU, MS Office Home & Student, ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Logitech G9X mouse.

Items to come: Corsair 800D case, i7-3630 CPU, ASUS Rampage IV Extreme MOBO, Corsair Force GT 240GB SSD, WD Caviar Black 2 TB HDD, Windows 7 Pro, ASUS HD7970-DC2T-3GD5, Corsair Vengeance K90 keyboard and G.Skill Ripjaws 16 GB 2133Mhz RAM.

[compres]

I am a bit lucky in my case that the store is a brick and mortar one; in the worst case, I can show up and return it quite easily and without cost.

I can post here how it goes, but it seems that 2 weeks is the minimal expected time.

[BirdOtt]

I am using a local bricks and mortar store too. So far, they have had competitive or best prices for the items I have purchased. They will match internet competitors' prices with shipping added. I hope that they will be honorable if something goes wrong such as a faulty Video card or whatever. :)

[BirdOtt]

We haven't heard from Moose in awhile. I guess Moose is still waiting for his card to come in. I am looking forward to his review and experience with it.

On another forum there have been reports of high VRM temperatures, sometimes exceeding 100 degrees. I am hoping to buy a graphics card, not a room heater, although where I live, a room heater could be a good thing (in the winter only of course)! :)

[Moose]

Oh sorry mate, I just got back from the busiest week ever. The card has been delayed, my retailer says till the 18th of march :/. I don't like where this is going, I really need that card. I've asked some questions here and there about the delays, will get back to post any useful answers.

Happy waiting!