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Card Change ?

conoflex

conoflex

conoflex

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Going to be changing my motherboard and cpu soon, Is it worth changing Graphics card at the same time ?
using a Asus 7970 TOP atm.
 
The ASUS 7970 TOP is a pretty nice card - good performance a very effective cooler. Are you finding that it isn't giving you the performance you are wanting? May I ask what resolution you are running at?

As for potential upgrade, a GTX 780, GTX 780Ti, R9 290 or R9 290X would give you a decent performance increase. However, you would be paying a pretty significant price for such an upgrade.
 
I have no problems running anything with it and happy with performance, just wondered if it was worth changing at same time but if i'm not going to see a significant change for the extra cash I won't bother. :)
 
If you are happy with the performance they you are probably best to keep hold of it for now. The prices of fast cards are constantly coming down and new, faster cards are regularly being released.

Right now we are all eagerly anticipating Nvidia releasing their next generation of top-end cards using the "Maxwell" architecture. This is because they released a couple of mid-range cards (GTX 750 and 750Ti) using this architecture recently and they were extremely good for such low power cards (60W). When they do release a top end 250W card it may be a big performance jump compared to what we have now.
 
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