GTX670 or 7970 For THIS Game?

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Originally Posted by Walshy

Overclocking stresses the components and puts them under greater strain to perform, which causes heat and which puts the fans and cooling system under more strain to deal with said heat. Running any sort of rig under those conditions even if your cooling system is a water system eventually those components are going to wear out, and playing demanding at high settings will lower that that threshhold even more!...

When talking about the current generation of GPU’s, that’s not necessarily true.

With the fact that the GPU vendors have released “OC” versions of the 7xxx, and the fact that nVidia will automatically “overclock” their GPUs via their GPU Boost functionality, AND still provide a warrantee, means that these new GPUs can be “overclocked” and still remain with in their tolerances.

With this round of GPU’s the term “overclocked” or “superclocked” is a smoke screen, it’s marketing pure and simple. These puppies can go much higher in terms of raw clock speed and heat and still live to fight on.