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MalakiUK

MalakiUK

MalakiUK

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Hi all,

Im looking at upgrading my GFX card (from the one in my sig), i usually play games like GW2 and BF3, both run fine @1080 on highest settings. I recently started playing skyrim with a few highres mods and ive noticed quite a but iof stuttering when out hunting in the grassy areas.

So i guess its time to get a bit more muscle with regards to my GFX card. i was originally looking at a 7950 as theyre about my price range, but then wondered if it would be possible to just get another 7850 and run them both in xfire/sli (i forget which is which) and if this would give a decent boost in performance

Thanks for any light you can shed :)
 
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Crossfire would be the cheaper option and it also depends how much you are willing to overclock. A pair of clocked 7850's will destroy anything and everything at 1080, but with skyrim mods comes heavy vram requirements, so a 3GB 7950 might not be such a bad option :)
 
The safe option certainly, but again the 7950 only really starts to shine once you apply a healthy overclock, overclocking a GPU is IMO a lot safer then clocking a CPU as voltage restrictions are already in place to stop you insta-killing it :)

Edit: have a look at the link gregster provided, the 7850's have HUGE potential, a pair of them on a decent clock will eat its way through anything.
 
im running standard cooling on the CPU so havnt OC'd it for fear of blowing it up (aswell as my lack of knowledge)

but i dont understand why when i increased the GPU settings it gave worse performance >.<
 
You should be able to get that cpu upto 4/4.1ghz with stock cooler, just dl, core temp and prime95 for testing.

Usually gpu's will give worse performance if your pushing memory too hard as it throttles.
 
Sounds like your overclock on the card isn't stable if it is dropping frames like that. Try upping the volts slightly.
 
If your default voltage is 1.175 for example, I would put it to 1.2v and try the same clocks you tried. If stable, try for a bit more on the clocks. If you see artifacts in any bench/game, ease off the memory clock. 1500 seems to be good but I am an nvidia boy, so not that hot on AMD.

Hope this helps. Don't go too high on volts though.
 
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