Looking to go green

Omaeka · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:20

Not a joke btw.

My 7950 has turned faulty after 8 days, and my old 6850 blew its bearings, I've had 'noof, so I'm looking to jump ship to Nvidia.

Any suggestions on a replacement for a 7950? £320-380 (maybe 400) budget.

Cheers!

I still hate Nvidia.

Space Monkey · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:27

If you want to go green you should try some of my cooking :eek:

GTX 670 will see you right

humbug · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:27

Omaeka said:
Not a joke btw.

My 7950 has turned faulty after 8 days, and my old 6850 blew its bearings, I've had 'noof, so I'm looking to jump ship to Nvidia.

Any suggestions on a replacement for a 7950? £320-380 (maybe 400) budget.

Cheers!

I still hate Nvidia.

1 GPU was faulty and now you want to jump ship, despite your spoiler?

Just RMA and get another one, you know as well as anyone you pay more for the same thing on the Green side.

Omaeka · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:30

Space Monkey said:
If you want to go green you should try some of my cooking

GTX 670 will see you right

I think I can stretch to a 680 though, worth it?

humbug said:
1 GPU was faulty and now you want to jump ship, despite your spoiler?

Just RMA and get another one, you know as well as anyone you pay more for the same thing on the Green side.

2 GPU's have gone faulty mate, and I've lost count of the amount of games I cant play due to AMD gpu;

The Secret World
Gothic 3
Dead Rising 2

and there are tons of games I play which all boast huge fps gains on a Nvidia card due to branding. Yeah I know Nvidia are tramps but I just want rid of all the bull**** that having an AMD card brings with it, even if it isn't their fault.

Gregster · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:31

EVGA 670 FTW will do very nicely

Orcvader · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:33

If you don't want to go red or green, how about blue

?

Anyway, I would just RMA the 7950 and see if the replacement is fine. If that blows as well, then get a 670.

Tonester0011 · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:34

^ Second the man above. Still under £300 (£0.01 under

)
No real point going 680 unless you're compensating for something downstairs

Edit: The man above above, the one with two 680s...

Omaeka · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:36

gregster said:
EVGA 670 FTW will do very nicely

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/search_results.php?sortby=priceAsc&search=EVGA

Orcvader said:
If you don't want to go red or green, how about blue ?

Anyway, I would just RMA the 7950 and see if the replacement is fine. If that blows as well, then get a 670.

Blue? I'm already blue.

I think?

Nah, I'm still under the 14 days guarantee and want to RMA + refund the card for a Nvidia, I have a 6850 on its way back to flog and quite a few bob in me pocket since I got the 7950, so the price difference is nothing now.

Tonester0011 said:
^ Second the man above. Still under £300 (£0.01 under )
No real point going 680 unless you're compensating for something downstairs

Edit: The man above above, the one with two 680s...

So a 670 is the way to go?

Btw I'm like, totally a girl so you know.

Tonester0011 · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:38

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-195-EA

Suarez7 · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:39

Go balls deep in your wallet and get a 680.

Gregster · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:39

Sorry but at work on my phone, not sure what you linked?

Fair comment Tones

Omaeka · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:41

Tonester0011 said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-195-EA

Is that any good? Also, I'm using a 6850 backplate at the moment, I trust I'll need to swap to the Nvidia one?

ACEOWNER said:
Go balls deep in your wallet and get a 680.

Now I've seen 670's for £300< I don't know. :eek:

gregster said:
Sorry but at work on my phone, not sure what you linked?

It was a search of EVGA on OcUK, there are like 9 of the 670s

.

weehamish · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:41

Did you try the new 13.2 drivers btw? they fix a tonne of games!

Tonester0011 · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:42

Linked a search of EVGA, so i posted the 670 FTW card.
I assumed Omaeka couldn't find the card.

Omaeka · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:45

weehamish said:
Did you try the new 13.2 drivers btw? they fix a tonne of games!

The beta drivers were the ones I was on when it went faulty, so I reverted back to 13.1 and was the same.

Tonester0011 said:
Linked a search of EVGA, so i posted the 670 FTW card.
I assumed Omaeka couldn't find the card.

Just gonna say that I don't at all want to OC, I'll be running stock clocks 100%.

Uncle Petey · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:45

Bit unfair maybe considering it was your old 6850 that blew it's bearings

Omaeka · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:48

Uncle Petey said:
Bit unfair maybe considering it was your old 6850 that blew it's bearings

What do you mean? My 7950 has turned faulty too.

So the EVGA GeForce GTX 670 FTW is the best card to replace it? Cheers!

Tonester0011 · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:51

Omaeka said:
Is that any good? Also, I'm using a 6850 backplate at the moment, I trust I'll need to swap to the Nvidia one?

Pretty decent card. 680 PCB and cooler. EVGA are a good brand and loads on here swear by them. It comes with a backplate iirc...not sure though...well 90% sure.
Edit: Unless i'm thinking of the SC version? Someone will clear this up though.

Uncle Petey · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:51

Oh never mind

Space Monkey · 4 Feb 2013 at 00:54

Got the 670 FTW myself, lovely card, uses a 680 board and cooler