ASUS HD7970-DC2-3GD5 Radeon HD 7970 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: The card works great low temps, quiet,good framerates, 5x1 eyefinity is awesome. This card runs 5400 x 1920 rez with no problem

Cons: Not reall a con:Make sure u have room for this card,Crossfire takes a lot of slots.

Other Thoughts: Well a short time after I started using this card it started to act up freezing with horizontal lines on screen. Another card works perfiectly. Time to RMA, Then the nightmare starts, check stock took 7 days(they said 3) Now the paper work for the crosship is delayed(they said 48 hours) cause someone was on vacation. ASUS needs to get it together .The card model is great but THIS RMA isnt.

Pros: Noise is virtually non-existent at 60% and below fan speed. When cranked up higher you can hear a low droning but nothing too major with headphones.
Excellent over-clocking capability, I'm set to 1150MHz core and 1575Mhz Mem with no artifacting or stutter.
Keeps relatively cool with the right airflow and ambient temps.
Plenty of monitor hookups
Backplate prevents ugly sagging on the PCI-E.
Card is GORGEOUS, especially for a red/black themed PC like my own.

Cons: Large, very large. Medium sized cases might take issue with this, but a nice Full Chassis should be fine with it. Do your homework!
Had to unlock the voltage with Asus Smartdoctor before bumping the clocks up with Afterburner. Was greyed out in Afterburner but not with Smartdoctor, perhaps others should try this method?

Other Thoughts: Needs to come down in price now, if you're thinking about buying, WAIT. With the release of the 780, this baby should drop price considerably to compete. Still worth the purchase, just have a little patience.

Pros: This card looked amazing in my rig. When it ran, it was quiet and cool. Never got above 40 Degrees C.

Cons: Kept crashing my system. I formatted and reinstalled my OS and still had the same issues. Switched back to my old 6970's and never had an issue. I was very disappointed since I waited so long for the price to drop.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear John,

I am sorry that you have been having problems with your HD7970 graphics card. Please let me know what exactly you are experiencing so that I may try to help. When you crash do you get a blue screen? does it go straight to black, no picture? Do you only experience the crashes when you play games or watch videos?
Feel free to contact me at cl-jeremy@asus.com with anything that you can describe and I will be happy to help you in any way that I can.

Regards,
Jeremy
ASUS Customer Loyalty

Pros: nice upgrade from my 6950 2g, easy to OC

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: it does very well on all games that I play on max settings

Pros: Supports up to 6 monitors or 5 monitors and a projector if you'd rather.
Capable of supporting the almighty 5x1P.
Not particularly loud.
Cools itself off rather well.
Doesn't use up much power. My entire system, which includes 5 monitors and a few hard drives, draws under 500 watts during load. Quite efficient.

Comes in a surprisingly awesome and worthy box. Also, it's huge.

Cons: Takes up 3 slots
Kind of hard to install due to size, requires good alignment of tabs on the shield.
Size may force you to remove a couple expansion bays in some cases.

Other Thoughts: This thing is awesome. I was swapping between 3x1P and 3x1L a bunch and was tired of getting everything in order each time. Moving up to 5x1P with this card means that I can now swap between modes in a heartbeat using a hotkey, and my compatability has never been better. Though, I've had to remain on the 13.3 beta drivers to prevent some games from giving me a black screen in Eyefinity.

Normally, 5x1P and 3x1P have all sorts of problems with games that can't scale their resolution high. Some even attempt to launch in portrait mode. Though, 3x1P is a shorter aspect ratio than 1080p, so there's never stretching problems when games move into it. The trick here is to use the CRU (Custom Resolution Utility) by ToastyX. For the custom settings on each monitor, you'll have to leave 1920x1080, and add the resolutions 480x640, 768x1024, and 640x1080.

The monitors need 1920x1080 in the list to function at full resolution, though this number will change if your monitor is different. The first two additions will ensure that all classic games can start up. It might be worth using 600p in there but, after debating it, I've found that 1024p and 640p offer more compatibility as a set. These are usually just so the game can start, then any modern game will let you go to at least 1920x1080, which is provided by having 1080x640 available. In 3x1P, this results in a resolution of 1920x1080, but it MUST be enabled under "custom resolutions" in the Eyefinity tab of your Catalyst drivers.

Through this method, there is nothing that gives me compatibility issue because of the weird resolutions provided by 5x1P. Prior to this, it was frustrating. Now that I've sorted out hacking together resolutions, everything works splendidly and I can play literally anything in my Steam library now. Before it was a lot of trial and error with the help of WSGF.

5x1P is difficult without this. With it, I fully recommend the mode 100% and thus think that his product is deserving of a 5 egg rating. And let's not forget, you still have room for a 3D projector, which are becoming very affordable. Find me something you can't run with that setup.

Pros: What can I say. Right out of the box I can play BF3 on ULTRA with 80-100 FPS. It's Cooler is very adequate with cooling. I've never seen temps near 60C.

-Fast
-Quiet
-Eyefinity out of the box
-Goes well with my color scheme
-Fair price for the video card

Cons: One major issue I had with the video card is that its Voltage locked. Highest I can get it is to 1.182V. With that being said. While playing BF3 I need to have a saved settings for it to play. For that I can run 1050 Mhz core and 1475 Mhz memory. Any other game I can run the card to the Max and be fine.

Last, I ordered two of these cards for a Xfire setup. One ended up being DOA. BSOD after the windows loading screen. Sent it back to Newegg for RMA replacement and today they've accepted the RMA. For this I would've knocked off -1 egg for a DOA card. Still 5 Eggs for great customer service

Other Thoughts: Specs:

Asus Sabertooth Z77 MoBo
I5 3570K @ 4.4 Ghz
G.Skill Ripjaws 1600Mhz 8GB
Asus 7970 DCU II
Corsair HX1050 PSU

Pros: Quiet, no heat, great game settings on 2560x1440 monior

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Make sure you have a large case. This thing is very large.
Running no sweat, over 120 fraps in BO II. Clock at 1125, memory at 1500. Great price $434 @ my fav place, Newegg.

Pros: Well, it runs...

Cons: I don't know if it's just the drivers or what. I get artifacting often and BF3 crashes about 1 in 4 games. I upgraded from the ASUS 6950 2GB card and never had any problems like this. Can't record anymore because of the terrible artifacting. I'm pretty disappointed so far with this card. Hopefully they will release some better drivers. Wish I had just waited for the 8XXX series to come out.

Other Thoughts: Just wait till the next series comes out.

Pros: I don't know why everyone is saying they cannot overclock this card, I mean define overclocking? Turning the voltage up ridiculously high and decreasing the life of the card? It's locked for a reason, but with the latest version of Asus's GPU Tweak I have been able to clock the card above the GHZ versions of the 7970 just fine. The most stable clocks are 1000-1100 Core Clock / 1500 (6,000) Memory Clock... anything above that is just... pointless? I mean yeah you might get a few extra points in 3dmarks but your going to have artifacts and freezes on just about anything graphics intensive after a 15 minutes or so. It out performs my 7950 by 20-35% on most games.. Planetside 2 gets a 20-30 FPS increase and overall stability from the 7950 I used to have.. everything else plays well Crysis 3, Skyrim, Bioshock Infinite... all works good. Plus it has the option for 6 monitors.

Cons: None.

Pros: Fan are ridiculously silent. When the card would actually work, the temp stayed well below 45C in games. Looks good.

Cons: Caused BSODs and couldn't stay in a game for more than 5 minutes before crashing my computer. BF3 was choppy when it did manage to stay in the game for more than 2 minutes. Starcraft 2 wouldn't even load and would consistenly crash. I reinstalled my OS thinking maybe there was a driver issue. Nope, same thing on a fresh install. Put in my old card and the issues disappeared.

Other Thoughts: Back to my old reliable 6970 (Sigh). I know it wasn't a power issue as I have a 1000W PSU.
I'll probaby just end up waiting on the new 8000 series or grab one of Nvidia's new 700 series when they come out. What a disappointment.