Brutal, I have 4 7970's in two different computers (2 per computer) and they are pulling 1050watts for both rigs.
Advantage of being able to get VDDC down to 1.025-1.030.
Cards are Sapphire Dual-X OC and MSI OC Boost.

I was fiddling around some more last night and found something interesting.

On the Sapphire cards the best I have been able to get is 950/1425 for 650KHs. I am OK with that as they are drawing little power doing it.
I was pushing the memory up and down trying to get a little more out of them and found nothing better up to 1700mhz on the RAM. On a whim I tried 1220mhz RAM and got exactly 650KHs, weird. That seems to be the best so left them running at 950/1220, wish I could drop the RAM voltage below 1.5v...

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