7950 dual display?

[Greg]

I'm just looking a the AMD HIS HD 7950 3072MB. Was thinking about getting a nVidia 660 or 670, but I'm now considering a 7950, only one question though. All the images I can see they only show one DVI port. Can you run two monitors on this card?

 

[NightSt@lk3r]

You can run 6 displays off of it.

 

[Greg]

Well, Its the question between this card and a 660?

I assume this card (the 7950) would be more than sufficient to run BF3 or Farcry 3 etc and any games for the next 6 months pretty reasonably?

 

[Mak3R]

Certainly is. Plays BF3 on ultra for me.

 

[NightSt@lk3r]

Well, Its the question between this card and a 660?

No contest, 7950 smacks the **** out of the 660.

 

[skyjawa]

Yes, easily - I'm running a 7950 and its plenty enough, only struggles with BF3 in silly high Eyefinity resolutions!

most have 1 dvi, 2 mini displayport and an hdmi, though some have different connectors.

You can get adapters for all the different ports too.

 

[Greg]

How does the 7850 compare? There's a huge price jump! Sorry for such basic questions, i've tried to search

 

[NightSt@lk3r]

I wasnt all that impressed by the performance of the 7850, so when it died i got a refund and got a 7950 instead of a replacement 7850.

 

[Rusty0611]

7850 when overclocked sits between 7870 and 7950 stock performance.

7950 when overclocked is a fair bit faster than a stock 7970.

 

[humbug]

How does the 7850 compare? There's a huge price jump! Sorry for such basic questions, i've tried to search

The 7850 is about the same as the GTX 660.

The 7950 is about the same as the GTX 670.

The 7950 will keep you right on maxed settings for some time to come, its the most performance you will get for its money right now and it is pretty powerful.

 

[Greg]

Awesome,

I think I'll go for a 7950 of some brand, any particular brands that are to be avioded?

Regards,

 

[Greg]

Ok, I've just gone ahead and ordered this card http://uk.msi.com/product/vga/R7950-2PMD3GD5-OC.html (its 270mm) long and its going in an ANTEC ONE MIDI case, which I'm reading in reviews will only take cards that are up to 266mm long.

Am I going to struggle? :S (Should have bloomin checked before hand!!)

Anyone have any experience like this before?

Regards

 

[chris-82]

I hope you don't get one of the supposed Broken batch I had two of these and they ran very hot and loud!

 

[MOOGLEYS]

Dremel it in...

You can run dual screens from a 7950 by using any of the ports together. 3 or more screens will require active adapters. If your screens have Dvi and HDMi just use them.

 

[NightSt@lk3r]

I hope you don't get one of the supposed Broken batch I had two of these and they ran very hot and loud!

It's only the Twin Frozr 7950's that are borked, the one he has ordered is a reference design.

Would have gone for something Custom TBH the reference cooler is loud and doesn't cool as good as it could have.