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Too buy or not too buy?

Biglee

Biglee

Biglee

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Hi Guys,

I am thinking about upgrading my ageing ATI 5 series GFX card. And i noticed the new deals on the mailshot for this week.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-049-HS

and

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-065-HS

Are they as good a deal as they seem? I'll only be playing a few games, mainly WoW but i am probably going to pick up Bioshock at some point.

Is there a better card at this price point now?

And finally, will the above cards fit in my shiny new CM 690 II Advanced (USB 3.0 version) Case?

Sorry for the question overload.

Lee
 
For the price they are the best card you can get really.

I would go for the HIS IceQ myself, as it has a better cooler. :D

Just wondering, what is the rest of your PC? What PSU do you have? :D
 
Like Doomedspeed best cards you can get really for the money and would be nice to know what CPU and PSU you have.

The IceQ is the better one and is already overclocked, they will also fit in your case no problem. I have a CM 690 II Advanced, it's an great case :D
 
Those 7950s and with the free games are really great bang for bucks at the moment. To buy or not to buy now, it would depend on how much bang for bucks you would expect of the new gen AMD that's around the corner and whether or not to want to wait for it.

I'm guessing the chances are the 9870 would be around the price range as the current 7950 at around £180, but the question is...would they simply be 7950 rebadge, or with slight steam processor counts increase over the 7950 while keeping the same memory bus and vram size, or are them gonna do the 9870 as 7870 LE keeping the same nerfed 256-bit memory bus and 2GB vram, but increasing the steam processor count to 7950/7970's level- IMO the latter seem to be the more likely possibility.

Whatever AMD's gonna release in the £230-£260 price range would definitely faster than the 7950, but that would be £50-£80 higher in price and the 7950 is currently at £180, which you can buy now instead of having to wait.

So it's really up to you to deciding what to do- buy the 7950 right now, or wait for next gen card, but with the new gen £180 card with the potential risk of being slower than 7950 vs the potential benefit of being faster than the 7950 (I'm guessing this is pretty much the deciding factor for buying the 7950 or not).
 
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Thanks Marine,

I'm not after bleeding edge cards to be honest, so i guess as everyone is saying these cards are excellent value I'll bite the bullet and get my debit card out.

Cheers All.

Lee
 
Dicehunter said:
If you can wait then wait another few weeks as AMD will have their new stuff out that will obliterate Nvidia.
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Won't make much of a differences though how well the £300+ cards perform, if OP is only gonna spend under £200 for a card. Best case scenerio is that the new sub £200 AMD card would be a little bit faster than the 7950/7970, worse case is that it would be slower than the 7950.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
Won't make much of a differences though how well the £300+ cards perform, if OP is only gonna spend under £200 for a card. Best case scenerio is that the new sub £200 AMD card would be a little bit faster than the 7950/7970, worse case is that it would be slower than the 7950.
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Thanks for clearing that up, i think i'll take advantage of the price drop. Do you guys know if the free game bundle is still applicable?
 
Biglee said:
Thanks for clearing that up, i think i'll take advantage of the price drop. Do you guys know if the free game bundle is still applicable?
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You would get the AMD Radeon GOLD Reward Ticket with the 7950, which you can claim 3 games of your choice from the Never Settle Forever bundles. As far as I know (from what I read), the ticket is valid until the end of this year, so rather than claiming older games that worth average £10 or less each, you could save it for later and claim newer games (such as BF4 when it's out or other new games that are also worth around the £25-£30 range). But from what I recall, you can't claim one game at a time, you'd have to claim all 3 games in one go, so you should pay close attention to AMD's amendment to their bundle.

The AMD Radeon GOLD Reward Ticket aside, OcUK themself had chipped in some extra free games offers of FC3 Bloody Dragon, Bioshock Infinity, Crysis 3 and Tomb Raider (SimCity code all gone so they removed it from the list already), but that was from two weeks ago with the qualifing MSI AMD cards. Not sure if the games has ran out or if the offer ended yet, but you could give OcUK a call, or drop them a webnote or ask at the Customer Support section of the forum to confirm.
 
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