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When are we getting some proper mid-range upgrades?

I think the real problem here is that you bought the 7870 when prices where really low and they had been out for some time? Now you expect to get another card from the new category when they haven't been out a while. It's not going to happen.

Look at the launch prices of the 7870's they were significantly more than £100.

A 7950 is a brilliant card, with a lot of memory and is easily overclocked. You also get 3 free games, that you can sell on the members market (or wherever) to recoup some money back if you want.

What CPU and RAM do you have to actually run this card btw?
 
humbug said:
I can play Crysis 3 on all very high and BF4 all Ultra without AA on a £170 7870XT with good frame rates, It eats BF3 on Ultra preset alive.

The 7850 will do BF3 on Ultra preset just fine, it will do Crysis 3 / BF4 on high..
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MSI 7850 here. Crysis 3 won't be anywhere near 60 or even 50 FPS on high.

More like 20-30 FPS. I can benchmark it tonight if you want proof :p

Also nobody is selling non-ref 7950s for £150... And this debate really isn't about the 2nd hand market filling the gap that the new market has left.
 
Scougar said:
I think the real problem here is that you bought the 7870 when prices where really low and they had been out for some time? Now you expect to get another card from the new category when they haven't been out a while. It's not going to happen.

Look at the launch prices of the 7870's they were significantly more than £100.

A 7950 is a brilliant card, with a lot of memory and is easily overclocked. You also get 3 free games, that you can sell on the members market (or wherever) to recoup some money back if you want.

What CPU and RAM do you have to actually run this card btw?
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Who me? i was an early adopter of the 7870, literally bought it still smelling like the factory it was made at, i paid the price for it, i knew that at the time and i have no complaints, i sold that card for the same money i paid for the 7870XT and got a bunch free games thrown in. i'm very happy with it that, its about 10% faster than the standard 7870, a 7950 would give me about another 10 to 15%, thats just not what i'm looking for right now, i'm waiting until next year, if the R9 290 is cheap enough thats what i'm getting.

I have no complaints with what your getting for your money today, i think £230 for the R9 280X, thats a fast card for that money.

i7 930, @ 3.8Ghz 3x 2GB Trichannel @ 1450Mhz.


http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7373531

Graphics Score 9870
Physics Score 8110

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1498558

Graphics Score 7126
Physics Score 9642

24/7 Clocks ^^ Thats very solid performance, i dare say.

Its Foxeye that not happy, i am. What GPU do you have Foxeye?
 
FoxEye said:
MSI 7850 here. Crysis 3 won't be anywhere near 60 or even 50 FPS on high.

More like 20-30 FPS. I can benchmark it tonight if you want proof :p

Also nobody is selling non-ref 7950s for £150... And this debate really isn't about the 2nd hand market filling the gap that the new market has left.
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Get a 7950, £185 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-065-HS

Look at my 3DMark scores above, you can add 15% to those scores, it will monster your 7850, £185 is a very good price for that performance.
 
As I said, MSI 7850. i5 2500k.

I'll do some tests tonight but I'm getting nowhere near 60FPS with that.
 
I was wondering this. Hoping to upgrade my GTX 460 finally for a reasonble price, but looks like I may wait a bit longer.
 
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