7950 upgrade?

[drs101]

Hi Guys

Is it worth upgrading to anything else yet?

I have a 7950 running at 1920x1080 / 1080p

Not been taking much notice of the card scene lately any major upgrade available or round the corner?

Cheers
Dan

 

[Loxa]

Hi Guys

Is it worth upgrading to anything else yet?

I have a 7950 running at 1920x1080 / 1080p

Not been taking much notice of the card scene lately any major upgrade available or round the corner?

Cheers
Dan

I am in the same boat atm, been looking at 780 ti's and 290x's etc

 

[Heisenberg]

Another 7950. Most cost effective upgrade.

 

[Loxa]

Another 7950. Most cost effective upgrade.

Then you have to find a second hand one at a reasonable price.

 

[tamzzy]

Then you have to find a second hand one at a reasonable price.

loads in the MM ;p

 

[Heisenberg]

loads in the MM ;p

Exactly. It's not hard to find a cheap second hand 7950. Or I'm sure the 280 also crossfire with a 7950. Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Loxa]

The 280 can xfire with a 7950, 1000 posts for the MM -_-.

 

[TonyTurbo78]

get a 2nd 7950. Trust me, no single card, unless it's incredibly aggressively overclocked, will touch the performance of 2 7950s in crossfire.

 

[LaneyEFC]

Got a 7950 myself and looking to crossfire rather than upgrade.. just hoping for cheap enough card for the persuasion..

 

[TonyTurbo78]

6 months ago I was planning on selling both mine and had a buyer for £300. I was planning on buying a 780ti with the money. But on seeing the performance of a friends 780ti on a very similar spec system, I decided to keep my cards. I reckon you could pick up 7950s as low as maybe £130 now, which is a complete no brainer of an upgrade. Just as long as you have a mobo and PSU that can take the extra card.

 

[LaneyEFC]

Tony, What mobo are you currently using? this is the asked question i gave in another thread.. my mobo only supports 4x crossfire (ASUS P8P67) hoping on another mobo at the cost of around £150??

 

[TonyTurbo78]

im using an old Z77 Gigabyte G1 Sniper http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4169#ov

 

[LaneyEFC]

Thanks.. really head wrecked on what to get! Don't just want to rush.. will get a few opinions first

 

[drs101]

Tony, What mobo are you currently using? this is the asked question i gave in another thread.. my mobo only supports 4x crossfire (ASUS P8P67) hoping on another mobo at the cost of around £150??

Yeh my mb only supports x4 in crossfire, would it still be worth it or need another mb also?

 

[Loxa]

2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 Slots, Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™, CrossFireX™ and NVIDIA® Quad SLI™, SLI™

Does this mean they both run x16? Or would would one be x8

 

[shankly1985]

2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 Slots, Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™, CrossFireX™ and NVIDIA® Quad SLI™, SLI™

Does this mean they both run x16? Or would would one be x8

Link?

 

[Loxa]

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z77 Extreme4/

 

[shankly1985]

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z77 Extreme4/

It will run at dual 8x but if you have ivy cpu or later this will run at pci 3.0 and 8x =16x 2.0
2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots (PCIE2/PCIE3: single at x16 (PCIE2) / x8 (PCIE3) or dual at x8/x8 mode)
- 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots

 

[Loxa]

It will run at dual 8x but if you have ivy cpu or later this will run at pci 3.0 and 8x =16x 2.0
2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots (PCIE2/PCIE3: single at x16 (PCIE2) / x8 (PCIE3) or dual at x8/x8 mode)
- 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots

Ok, hmmm so does this mean sli/xfire is not really worth it?

 

[shankly1985]

Ok, hmmm so does this mean sli/xfire is not really worth it?

Anything above 8x is perfectly fine. I would even argue 4x pci 3.0 will be fine as this is 8x 2.0.