hello so my HD6970 is probably faulty, as it seems the rear of it is loose. It is like a Shoe where the sole ahs left the other part and it creates a gap that is how my 6970 was at the rear it was like bent somehow. Well that isn´t my problem anymore it is sold andni ahve ordered this bad guy(not a 690/680): http://www.msi.com/product/vga/N580GTX-Lightning.html and i have also updated my PC with: Asus Maximus Gene V G.skill sniper Gddr3 8Gb i5 3570K ssd disk Only donwside was that the origina cooler that came with the cpu is faulty. As i have tried it at two different fan conectors and it sometime starts and sometimes i gotta help it so i could sometimes run the PC and sometimes it took me a while to get the fan spinning. so i ordered a CM hyper 212 Evo as well so now i´m a Nvidia guy as i can´t afford a 7970 and i have seen those cards aren´t all go it is a troublesome card, if i am not misstaken. but i do want a GTX680