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7950 upgrade

NoNameNoNumber

NoNameNoNumber

NoNameNoNumber

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Good evening,

I have a 7950 under water at the moment and whilst I can't fault it, I would like more performance as it does struggle a little sometimes. As far as I see it I have 3 options, what given the current market might you suggest?

A) Stick with the 7950 and hope someone sells me another
B) Sell it on the MM (£200 maybe with the water block?)
C) Sell it on the bay with the stock cooler

Ideally I'd like another 7950 but as I only have a 660w PSU maybe a single gpu would be better?

BTW i'm not against Nvidia, I have no idea what I could get for my money though, give me some ideas :D

Thanks!
 
Manufacturers over estimate the amount of power required for single or dual gpu set-ups, but I'm not too sure how you'll fare when the recommended is 750w according to AMD. Hopefully some fellow 7950 crossfire users will pop along and be able to help, as that would be a very powerful combination, if viable.
 
It's a Seasonic X series and according to their website the fan only spins up above 25% load, it barely ever does this so that equates to ~170W system usage! Loads of room spare :D

The problem is that the miners are willing to pay over the odds for the 7950's so I keep on missing out :/ hopefully someone will see my wanted ad and would prefer their trusty 7950 to sit under water with an easy life with a few games at 1080.
 
The PSU is more then enough...

I moved from 7950 Crossfire to a 1.3Ghz GTX 780 and it's just as quick as the 7950's were if not faster.

Sell what you have and capitalise on the recent AMD price hike because of mining and buy an Nvidia card.
 
NoNameNoNumber said:
Good evening,

I have a 7950 under water at the moment and whilst I can't fault it, I would like more performance as it does struggle a little sometimes. As far as I see it I have 3 options, what given the current market might you suggest?

A) Stick with the 7950 and hope someone sells me another
B) Sell it on the MM (£200 maybe with the water block?)
C) Sell it on the bay with the stock cooler

Ideally I'd like another 7950 but as I only have a 660w PSU maybe a single gpu would be better?

BTW i'm not against Nvidia, I have no idea what I could get for my money though, give me some ideas :D

Thanks!
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wait it out and see where mantle goes. If it goes mainstream on a lot of new games, then there's a performance increase for free.
 
NoNameNoNumber said:
It's a Seasonic X series and according to their website the fan only spins up above 25% load, it barely ever does this so that equates to ~170W system usage! Loads of room spare :D

The problem is that the miners are willing to pay over the odds for the 7950's so I keep on missing out :/ hopefully someone will see my wanted ad and would prefer their trusty 7950 to sit under water with an easy life with a few games at 1080.
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+1

Did the same. Went from 2 7950s @ 1100/1550 to a single GTX780 (need better PSU to push it more than 1271 it seems), and haven't looked back.

Everything runs the same if not better than the 2 7950s. For no other reason, other some games I play (Rome 2, WOT, WT) do not support SLI/CF.
 
7950 CrossFire to 290X user here.

Where 7950 CrossFire scaling is high(most AAA titles), it's faster oc'ed than any 780/290X oc'ed@1080p, you might not notice it, but it is faster.

BF4 7950 oc'ed CrossFire@~130fps avg -290X oc'ed@~115fps avg, same settings.

There are zero reviews that show otherwise either.

:)
 
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They aren't available anywhere. All of the beginners guides to mining state you need a 7950/7970 so all of the morons on the band wagon are paying well over the odds. A brand new 280x is less!
 
Just bear in mind to sell it fully insured and signed for it'll cost £25 at the PO :/
I charged £12 and kind of forgot that's only insured for £50 or so, no way I'm taking chances with eBay so I just took the hit.

£0.99 starting bid and £300 buy it now. Within 2 hours it had sold :0
 
Lol, pay double the price for a card that makes around £1.50 profit a day after leccy costs. It will take almost 7 months of non-stop mining just to recoup it's cost.
 
I'm going to jump into bandwagon and sell my 7950 while the price is high and get a 280x. I thought about mining but with one card is not worth it, £1.5 profit a day no thanks.

My Christmas present, screw mining not worth it with one card.
 
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