7970 replacement ?

[anthony566]

I am thinking of replacing my twin Sapphire HD 7970 OC cards what would be a good replacement without having to sell my car ....

I am happy with AMD so was looking at an R9, something like this ? :-

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-340-AS&tool=3

second question is are the R9 cards faster than my twin 7970's ??

 

[anthony566]

thanks for the very quick response guys .... very good point about the X version snips ... that saves a few hundred quid as I will be looking to put twin cards in my case however as like most I have OCD when it comes to the look of my setup so need to find a red based card to match my current case setup

 

[anthony566]

You won't see much difference because of the bottleneck if you're getting two 290's.

Wouldn't bother if I was you.

ok another good point as I am only looking to change the GPU and nothing else..

so if I am going single card should I look at an X version ?

 

[anthony566]

I wouldn't switch out a 7970 crossfire for a single 290, X or not. it'll be a downgrade.

ok so does that mean to run a twin 290 setup I would need to replace my board and cpu ?