Quote Originally Posted by STEvil View Post
There was talk of 1300+ cards stock from the manufacturers originally and I havent really seen anyone push the cards to their top on air yet other than minor software voltage bumps on stock or barely better than stock cooling resulting in 1200-1300 territory..

But honestly comparing theoreticals like its do-or-die is nothing more than fanboy banter..
1300 I have seen, but 1500 mhz is something I have to call out, especially if the guy is making it out to seem anyone can get this type of speed with the right mods on stock cooling. This is an overclocking website overall. The very best water results are 1400mhz.

Sf3D is a world class overclocker and he only got his 7970 to 1400 with air cooling. There is 1 hwbot with a 79xx that is air cooled in the 15xx range, but this seems like a cooling error reporting mistake considering it is 182mhz higher than the next guy with the same cooling. This is hardly enough to suggest commericially viable 79xx that are 1500mhz are possible, considering these guys mod the hell out of their cards and don't care about noise at all.