There's no point buying higher end cards like these, or even lower end of mid-range for that matter, unless you are going to be using it for gaming / work applications.
Yes, the AMD 7950 has 3gb of memory.
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GTX295 upgrade advise?
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There's no point buying higher end cards like these, or even lower end of mid-range for that matter, unless you are going to be using it for gaming / work applications.
Yes, the AMD 7950 has 3gb of memory.
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What res is your monitor OP? If it is only 1080p then I can't see you needing more than 2Gb VRAM for a long while. I'd go for the 770 myself.
Unless you're going to be playing CoH 2 pretty much non stop, I wouldn't bother myself (unless you've won the lottery). If you think you're going to get back into PC gaming, then these are great choices as they'll let you play anything at 1080p.
I'd vote for the 7950 - the free games, overclocking potential and extra memory, and CoH 2 seems to favour it over the 760. Based on those benchmarks, you'd expect the 7950 overclocked to go from 24fps to about 30fps.
I'd vote for the 7950 - the free games, overclocking potential and extra memory, and CoH 2 seems to favour it over the 760. Based on those benchmarks, you'd expect the 7950 overclocked to go from 24fps to about 30fps.
I'd be tempted to go for the cheapest GTX 760 you can find and aim to pay around £190-£200. I really don't think there's any point spending more money considering what you want to use it for. If you want more power in the future just get another one and sli them. If you definatley want ATI 3Gb you can get a 7970 with 5 games included for around £275 (sell the games for around £40)...uber bargain!!!
You're right they are AMD...I still call them ATI.
If your bothered about Vram how about the 760 in 4GB? maybe something else to consider
These cards are only about £20 more than the standard 2gb which seems a fair deal to me. If you factor in the possibility of SLI these are as future proof as you will get at the momment.
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I think you should get the 7950 - you want to get back into PC gaming and you'll get 8 of the latest games for free, it performs better out of the box for Company of Heroes 2, it has more memory and it overclocks brilliantly.
I think you should get the 7950 - you want to get back into PC gaming and you'll get 8 of the latest games for free, it performs better out of the box for Company of Heroes 2, it has more memory and it overclocks brilliantly.
4gb of vram isn't required at 1080, 1200, 1440 or even 1600p for that matter. It's only really useful when you run super high resolutions / multi monitor and are using multi gpu.
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Get the 7950 with 8 games.... IS the best you can do now with your money + since your coming back on pc gaming you will have some extra games to play with
I recommend you the ICQ Boost 7950 (the first card above)i have it myself and it is a beast... you cant go wrong with it
I would say based on recent opinion and what you have said in the thread, go for the 760 for now and see how you like it. If you want even more performance then look at upgrading it to sli as this achieves 780 results for less money. There was something in the latest news section on here about the kfa cards being pretty amazing for the price. The AMD route is good though especially with the game bundle they are doing too. Argh, not helping am I?
According to reviews and people on here that 7950 is pretty much silent. Power use on the 7950s is always quite low, a little bit lower than the 760 (~20W).