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Downgrading to 7950.

Jay85

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After much thinking, i think the impulse buy with the gtx 680 was abit of a moment for me lol. Decided to sell and go for a lower card as i just can't use that horse power, not with my current CPU anyway!

Am i right in thinking this way, is this the sensible thing to do? Sell while it's worth something and get something that's more suited to my needs? I had some good fun with this card, its cool its quiet and runs everything maxed out but do i really need all this? Not really considering when i only ever play GTA 4 or BF3 with the occasional Settlers Rise of an empire >.>

Which card would be more suited to my games listed above?
 
The 7950 is a good gpu but i think what you would lose selling the 680 for secondhand would hardly be worth the effort and just as well keep it
 
old gamer said:
The 7950 is a good gpu but i think what you would lose selling the 680 for secondhand would hardly be worth the effort and just as well keep it
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I bought mine for around £428 new from a different retailer but i have seen them sell back out for around £380ish second hand so i'm aiming for this price minimum.
 
I'd keep it for the future (or give it to someone who's helped out in watercooling threads of yours...:p)

If youre writhing the 7 day DSR period you can still send it back for a full refund. Otherwise, I don't think you should sell unless you'll only lose £20ish. I you need the money however; that'd be a different story.
 
Cleeecooo said:
I'd keep it for the future (or give it to someone who's helped out in watercooling threads of yours...:p)

If youre writhing the 7 day DSR period you can still send it back for a full refund. Otherwise, I don't think you should sell unless you'll only lose £20ish. I you need the money however; that'd be a different story.
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DSR only works if i bought it online though, if i used cash and paid in shop i doubt dsr would even work plus i bought it over a month ago haha.

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I was thinking about selling this for a pre watercooled 7950 that ocuk stock at the moment. Think it will fit nicely in with my system!



Cleeecooo will 3 x 120 rads cool my cpu and gpu?
 
*checks pockets as under bed*

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Will you take 10p and my firstborn instead?

Back on topic;
No hope of returning it I don't think :p

And yes, 360 will be easily adequate :)
 
It's pointless to sell it second hand and buy a 7950, there isn't much between the 2 cards, especially when overclocked.

Stick with the 680 or go for something like a 7850
 
Cheers guys, think i'll keep it for the time being. I'll be saving for a water block to complete my system :).
 
I would love to upgrade my board and cou but thats just £300 i dont have atm and it would need to be mATX form factor aswel :(.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
Shouldn't you really be looking at upgrading your CPU/platform first? Your Phenom II X4 CPU would be bottlenecking the GTX680 as it is...
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maybe barely, microATX boards typically don't OC very well so switching to a 2500k actually won't gain him very much at all if it won't OC very far

the amount you'll lose on selling a GTX680 2nd hand and then buying the 7950... you're only going to end up with about £50 back in your pocket... I would hold on to the 680 and start saving for a new mobo and CPU for mid 2013
 
andybird123 said:
maybe barely, microATX boards typically don't OC very well so switching to a 2500k actually won't gain him very much at all if it won't OC very far
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The Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z GEN3 Z68 overclock really well despite being a Micro-ATX board, so it is not universal truth in MicroATX board being in capable of overclocking. There are plenty of others MicroATX boards in the pass that are compentent overclockers as well.

Even if we toss the overclocking aside, a Phenom II X4 overclocked to 3.8GHz is only on par with a i3 2100/2120 gaming performance wise, so that's plenty much only on par with only 2 out of 4 cores performance of a stock clocked i5 2500K.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
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Even if we toss the overclocking aside, a Phenom II X4 overclocked to 3.8GHz is only on par with a i3 2100/2120 gaming performance wise, so that's plenty much only on par with only 2 out of 4 cores performance of a stock clocked i5 2500K.
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Link? can't find a 680 - CPU scaling review but 7970 is not a whole world of difference:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-7970-cpu-scaling-performance-review/9
http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-7970-cpu-scaling-performance-review/8

wow like 2FPS difference!!! I'll rush out and spend that £300 for 2 FPS, yes please!
 
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