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Looking to upgrade from 7950.

Would you recommend the kfa? I've not heard too much about them in general, mostly I've been recommended the Asus strix, but haven't seen/heard great things online about it.

For around £400 you can get a Fury which is generally a better card at higher resolution too. At under £300 you can get an R9 390X or one of the better R9 390 cards like the R9 390 Nitro.

Plus,with the next generation GPUs out next,I probably would try to spend less if possible - the extra money saved now will be better used towards an upgrade in 2017 IMHO.
 
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I would've been tempted to wait a little longer seeing as you plan to do a new build February. Or it could be just me not wanting to admit the 7950 is old...
 
I would've been tempted to wait a little longer seeing as you plan to do a new build February. Or it could be just me not wanting to admit the 7950 is old...

I've been thinking the same thing myself but a single 7950 is really starting to show its age in my opinion, as well as its done me it's time for something new (that would get stuck in the new build anyway)
 
This. There are price drops being annouced for the GTX900 and Fury ranges according to some websites too.

Always seems to be the case with buying pc parts, there's always a price drop round the corner that makes you feel like a mug for upgrading but I've been holding off so long that it's driving me bananas.

Then again trying to chose and upgrade is driving me just as mad haha!
 
Compare idle temperatures and fan speed at 60Hz compared to 144Hz, post results back here ;)

I guess you're right :mad:

GPU Core is 1012MHz at 144hz and only 135Mhz at 120hz.

So what's the dealeo on this problem?

I have an XB270HU G-sync monitor and well would like to use it to its full potential and not have my GPU working overtime.

Anyone know what the extra leccy cost would be having your GPU sit at 1000Mhz for 4hrs a day vs 135Mhz ?
 
I guess you're right :mad:

GPU Core is 1012MHz at 144hz and only 135Mhz at 120hz.

So what's the dealeo on this problem?

I have an XB270HU G-sync monitor and well would like to use it to its full potential and not have my GPU working overtime.

Anyone know what the extra leccy cost would be having your GPU sit at 1000Mhz for 4hrs a day vs 135Mhz ?

Not much more money at all - you wouldn't notice it. I only mentioned it as someone mentioned the 390 use far more electricity than the 980 range etc, best to give them the facts about this 144Hz NVIDIA Maxwell hardware bug.
 
Not much more money at all - you wouldn't notice it. I only mentioned it as someone mentioned the 390 use far more electricity than the 980 range etc, best to give them the facts about this 144Hz NVIDIA Maxwell hardware bug.

You can just set the desktop to 120hz, This should then downclock the GPU to idle speeds on the desktop. Games will still run fine at 144hz.
 
I've done the math, and where I'm at its approximately $1 a month. For 4hrs a day, 2 of which are idle desktop, the other 2 are gaming...

But its not helping my OCD !!! lol nVidia apparently did say (only read this in a post) that they're aware and there's a fix on the horizon, but apparently this problem has been in existence since June 2014 !!!! So wow 18months.

I've only recently gone to nVidia, since buying my gsync monitor a couple of months ago.
 
I've been thinking the same thing myself but a single 7950 is really starting to show its age in my opinion, as well as its done me it's time for something new (that would get stuck in the new build anyway)

Fair enough, the 970/980 will be a nice improvement. I'm personally holding out for Pascal.
 
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