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- Thread starter Chrisoldinho
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not you, manju, I see an infraction coming his way
I've got a MSI 7950 twin frozr. I get coil whine on heaven startup screen when its doing 1000fps but that's it. And that's at 1275mhz and high voltage. While gaming I use vsync at 60fps and have no coil whine at all while gaming. Just when its rendering silly FPS with vsync off.
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Well, I stopped looking at this thread as I couldn't make my mind up!
A 7950 might only be £50 more, but 2 of them makes it an extra £100 so that is out of my budget, also love the idea of the IB and Intel board, am actually doing this later in the year, I plan to sell my 990FX & 1090T at Xmas and get myself that setup to maximise performance.
With that in mind, I stuck to my guns, and went the none traditional route and ordered 2 MSI PE 7850's. Should arrive Monday, the reality is, i'm not going to stick another 7950/7970 in my PC anytime soon, and with a new born and a wife on Maternity I don't forsee being able to find any extra cash over the next 6 months, or ever for that matter, hence my decision to get the extra performance, now
A 7950 might only be £50 more, but 2 of them makes it an extra £100 so that is out of my budget, also love the idea of the IB and Intel board, am actually doing this later in the year, I plan to sell my 990FX & 1090T at Xmas and get myself that setup to maximise performance.
With that in mind, I stuck to my guns, and went the none traditional route and ordered 2 MSI PE 7850's. Should arrive Monday, the reality is, i'm not going to stick another 7950/7970 in my PC anytime soon, and with a new born and a wife on Maternity I don't forsee being able to find any extra cash over the next 6 months, or ever for that matter, hence my decision to get the extra performance, now
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evga gtx 680 signature 2 here. playing @1080p
60fps with official HD pack + full AA
Also no coil wine.
Well, I stopped looking at this thread as I couldn't make my mind up!
A 7950 might only be £50 more, but 2 of them makes it an extra £100 so that is out of my budget, also love the idea of the IB and Intel board, am actually doing this later in the year, I plan to sell my 990FX & 1090T at Xmas and get myself that setup to maximise performance.
With that in mind, I stuck to my guns, and went the none traditional route and ordered 2 MSI PE 7850's. Should arrive Monday, the reality is, i'm not going to stick another 7950/7970 in my PC anytime soon, and with a new born and a wife on Maternity I don't forsee being able to find any extra cash over the next 6 months, or ever for that matter, hence my decision to get the extra performance, now
Fair enough mate.
Driver issues permitting I think you'll be happy with the level of performance
.Even SLI 680's are bottlenecked by GPU power rather than VRAM so 2GB is plenty and should last you a good while.
Not really, you're just insisting something is a certain way when it isn't.
You're using examples that apply to both AMD and nVidia but will only accept it applies to AMD.
If some one was doing the same thing about nVidia, I'd have exactly the same thing to say.
@ Chrisoldinho
It would have been a lot more sensible to go for a single 7950 now, overclock it past 7970 speeds, and then pick up another once they've dropped under £200.
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I think it is though and do not accept your reasonings the same way you do not accept mine. I don't know what the problem is in just disagreeing and moving on. You seem hell bent on trying to prove that there isn't a stigma on the drivers when the more and more you post the more and more it looks like you're trying to disprove something which in your eyes isn't there.
Short: user asked for recommendation, I gave one based on my opinion. You didn't like my opinion and tried to brush the widely held perception (or stigma) which I was bringing to the table under the carpet. As you know, I didn't say don't buy the set up of crossfire AMD cards I just put it out there as a consideration which all it was.
I think the discussion is over now perhaps??
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I appreciate that it would have been faster, but I would have also brought with it potential issues with coil whine which the 78 series seem to have significantly less of, I would also question my PSU's ability to run CF 7950's overclocked, probably could but guru3d recommend a 750W for a 7870 (not checked CF 7950 requirements). I could have been waiting 3, perhaps 6 months before I could get a 7950 cheap enough to get a 2nd, although in fairness probably less, and finally an overclocked 7850 closely matches a 7950 in performance.
I don't think you are wrong, just for me I wasn't prepared to wait, and cannot see me being able to spend the additional anytime soon. If OCuK or anywhere else had these cards sub £240 I "might" of considered it (unlikely), but the prices seem to have gone up again.
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At the end of the day, it is your choice and you only need to justify to yourself (and the Mrs) the amount you spend.
The 7850 is a good card and even better with a good OC. I am sure you will enjoy it