Where things vary a lot is with drivers/miner/thread conc/intensity/GPU thread. With those, you are on your own but still you should start with trying the common ones.
so frustrating, basically i can only clean install drivers with a clean install windows which requires waiting for automatic updates like .net. are there RECOMENDED drivers for 7970's generally? im on 13.1, tried 12.6 but cgminer just wouldnt work on it, maybe due to app sdk