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Ya tis on water... can get 5.1 but gets little to hot for my liking
How hot? 70 and under is fine.
Could still be a bottleneck though. Bf3, (and likely 4) run a lot better on i7 cpu's, particularly with sli/xfire. I had this problem with an i5 3570k, gpu use wouldnt go over 80%. Cpu @4.5ghz, switched to a 3770k and even at stock cpu speed the card use was at 91% max. Clocked it to 4.5ghz and seen higher usage again.
lol, didn't you used to argue there's no difference between i5 and i7's?
For this game, there is quite a difference with a multi gpu setup. With a single card it doesnt matter wether you have an i5 or i7. Quite often one more powerful card is the best route to take, but in my case theyre often too expensive. Hence i go mid range then drop another one it at a cheap price.
Didn't think the 9970 is due til 2014, and the 8970 is just a rebrand.
Source? All we know at the moment is that there is a press release on September 25th. Given TSMC have not started mass production of 20nm manufacturing process yet I can't see the rumoured 9970 arriving until early 2014.
give it a rest just trying to troll every response i do.
i said in single card no difference , in dual card yes there is a small difference.
so as hes going crossfire then a i7 may benefit him. if he stays with one card his cpu will be fine.
Not trolling your response at all, I quite clearly remember you saying there was no difference at all, just wasting your money posts in the CPU section, even when people were suggesting it helps with multi GPU setups.
It's highly unlikely the new series is on 20nm.
Source here: http://videocardz.com/45523/retail-amd-radeon-r9-9000-series-arrive-mid-october
the new cards regardless will be out for bf4 they have to be to sell 
whether they'll just be rebrands of 7950 and 7970s probably. if so no real point in upgrading as they'll probably be about 10-15 quicker at best. so probably 5 fps tops in bf4.
well see soon anyway.
whether they'll just be rebrands of 7950 and 7970s probably. if so no real point in upgrading as they'll probably be about 10-15 quicker at best. so probably 5 fps tops in bf4.
well see soon anyway.
I wouldn't bother Westie. If you're going to play on low details at 1080p 1x7970 will be more than enough id imagine. As has been said your 2500k will bottleneck a 2x7970 setup in battlefield 3 and possibly battlefield 4. Not majorly but your gpu's will be stuck at 60-75% usage each and that's assuming you run ultra preset with x4aa. If you run lower expect even worse usage.
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Its all but guaranteed that the new cards will come out in time for BF4 for a huge promotion. As said above no one is expecting 20nm yet. Also apparently they won't be named 9970 etc.
Bashing WoW 8 hours a day? Back when I played properly (most progressed & advanced EU Guild pre-WOTLK) I would easily do 12 hours a couple of days a week and minimum 8-10 for the remaining days, weekends even more! Those were the days! (bear in mind I was also working 6-8 hours a day)
Now I can't even get in 6 hours a week!
More productive now but a gaming (+ hardware) itch that never seems to go away...
Happy to be proven wrong
I seem to remember reading only last month that we wouldn't see anything until 2014!