I am a bit confused here, if this represents the end of the 7990 and ASUS dumping whats left in the warehouse at a silly price, then what's if being replaced with? surely the is no possible way AMD could sell a dual R290 card as they drink more juice than a GTX690 by themselves. Does this mean that AMD are simply retiring the worlds fastest card with no replacement? are they planning a dual 270/280 card? or is it simply a case that now they have cards that can slap the 780 around they don't need the 7990 anymore so will just tell people who want that performance to go CF?
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Asus 7990 - £399.99 pre-order. Is this for real??
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The 7990 just about runs at 100% usage with a 2500k @ 4.6 on my rig, but the CPU load is usually in the high 80s low 90s.
That's of BF3 and BF4 beta btw.
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Spot on.
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As a fellow Spurs fan, get one. I'm following mine on GPS as we speak, the excitement is building
COYS !
Welljel Andy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP73edpQwgc
don't think I could put up with this, does this coil whine happen on every 7990 card ?
don't think I could put up with this, does this coil whine happen on every 7990 card ?
No not every card, plus a closed case and fans go a long way to help drown it out. A lot will also depend where your case is relative to you. Again, to the side of or under a desk is going to cut a lot of the noise out vs having the case sitting on the desk.
Im thinking about it, but I've really no clue what would the performance boost be if any over what I have currently, 6990+6970.
Suppose it would give my psu a break and possibly be quieter but its more the performance aspect that has me wondering, sidegrade possibly?
Eh?
Looking at 6970 crossfire vs 7970 crossfire from yonks ago the 7970's aren't massively in front though they are really old benchmarks, factor in 3 gpu's vs 2 and i'm guessing it would be a pointless sidegrade.
Eh?
These are unlikely to be on the latest drivers and are non-Ghz edition cards but still
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/515?vs=588
I think it would definitely be a performance improvement even going from your tri-fire setup.
The coil whine only seems to releate to the amount of FPS your getting so in benchmarks where your getting 3000fps or something you would hear it but when i game with vsync on at 60fps i dont hear a thing.
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This is unbelievable value. Tempted by this for my AMD system as if I want to buy a second 7950 to X-fire I'd need a new PSU too.
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£50?!!??! they're £106 new. Seasonic, 80+ Gold.
You only get 3 games, and not Crysis 3 or Bioshock. The Never Settle vouchers are expired.
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I was waiting to replace my 6990 with a 290X but this price is really making me think twice about that plan.
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I'm sorry I couldn't resist this. I have only gone and bought one.
Now have a 7950 His IceQ to sell.
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I've emailed the place I got it.I want my £100 ! buggers
What they didn't send you one?
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No I paid £479 for the same deal. If they don't partial refund I'll just send it back.
it's only OCUK doing these kind of prices. look at other vendors, they are still standing around 550-650 mark. i think this is the case where OCUK managed to build up such momentum that they can afford to make less profit on each by selling loads.