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I'd personally go for the 7970 too. Not that far behind the 6990, no need to worry about Xfire drivers, lower power consumption, cheaper, less heat. Better ATX motherboard, modular PSU, better CPU cooler. Can add in another 7970 in a year or so and get even more performance. Case is a bit more expensive but looks great!

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OcUK ATI Radeon HD 7970 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card OcUK ATI Radeon HD 7970 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £419.99
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Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £179.99
(£149.99) £179.99
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XFX 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply XFX 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £104.99
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Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £99.98
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Corsair Carbide 400R Midi Tower Case - Black Corsair Carbide 400R Midi Tower Case - Black £79.99
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £69.98
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Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £29.99
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Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
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Almost £200 below your budget, so could even add in a 128GB Crucial M4 SSD or get some nice new peripherals, put it towards another 7970? Thermalright Silver Arrow if you want to push the overclocking?

What resolution do you game at?
 
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Yes, but it's old gen now, if you look further down it uses more power and runs hotter.
Of course, it's your choice. Just saying its an option and I'd always go for the best single GPU card I can.

EDIT: agree with the spec above
 
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If you purchased a 6990 now then if or when you needed to update again you wouldn't find another one to xfire. Also the 6990 is hotter, louder,uses more power and wouldn't be used to its full potential unless you were encoding videos etc all day. It's up to you but the 7970 is a safer choice for down the line.
 
I'd pick a 7970 over a 6990 every time! I'm not a big fan of dual GPU cards, they can be a pain in the ass for games that don't support them properly. Also, the 6990 is last gen tech and the 7970 current gen. No brainer really.
 
Masterdeadly said:
Would a corsair TX 850w power two 7970's for the future then ?
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yes, it will be plenty. 850W is enough for two GTX 580s in SLI and the 7970 uses less power than that:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/508?vs=517

i assume you have a SATA DVD drive already?

last thing is, if your getting OcUK to build it for you, change the cooler to the antec khuler 620 (unless your collecting it from the store yourself) because i believe the gelid tranquillo is too much weight on the motherboard to be safe for delivery. to be honest though, building your own PC is stupidly easy. this picture sums it up perfectly
 
Reaper 392 said:
yes, it will be plenty. 850W is enough for two GTX 580s in SLI and the 7970 uses less power than that:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/508?vs=517

i assume you have a SATA DVD drive already?

last thing is, if your getting OcUK to build it for you, change the cooler to the antec khuler 620 (unless your collecting it from the store yourself) because i believe the gelid tranquillo is too much weight on the motherboard to be safe for delivery. to be honest though, building your own PC is stupidly easy. this picture sums it up perfectly
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Love that pic. I now know how it feels to non tech people, especially when i watched how pretty straight forward watercooling is, but was pretty scared of even going down that route.

I also love the fact that the 7970 fan doesnt spin when there low activity.
 
how many threads are you going to post on this? you've already posted at least 2/3 other spec me threads already. it this going to be the xfire 6950 is my psu going to be good enough scenario all over again?
 
Nah I'm upgrading, so i've decided on the 7970, and reaper I understand it's easy to build a pc but I like to have the warranty and is that cooler air or water, and will overclockers build a computer that I specify ?
 
the antec kuhler 620 is a closed loop liquid cooler(like the corsair h60, similar performance).

ocuk will build it to the spec use give them using the specified components but you have to ring up not go through their website configurators. they will obviously charge you for it, can't tell you how much you have to get a quote from them.

would say go for a modular psu, makes it easier on cable management/looks neater as no unnecessary cables.

see you conviently ignored my last post ;)
 
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