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I wouldn't call that 'minimal tweaks'.
Takes 2 minutes to complete dude, can't get much more minimal for the impressive gain result.
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I wouldn't call that 'minimal tweaks'.
I for one, will be keeping an eye out on the 7970 prices here. If they can get the Sapphire OC edition to £359.99 i'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Or the msi 7950 twin frozr for £300. Also an acceptable degree of win![]()
For me you were looking at 10% lower performance for 25-35% lower prices depending on the card, or from the other perspective, a 5870 cost you 50% more, and only offered 10% more performance than a 5850. The fact is that you can barely see the 10% performance and if that isn't enough, then really 5850 xfire would be a hugely better performance increase and again vastly better value, and there are so few setups where 5870xfire would have made any difference over 5850 xfire, because there is so much performance most of the time you're cpu limited anyway.
In other words, the 7970 and 680gtx suck balls, are horrible value and not remotely worth thinking about. 7950 at £300 is so much better value, and frankly 7850 xfire even more again, etc, etc.
£360 for a 3gb 7970 is stonking value, i'm considering buying another for CFX
With this news I am really considering upgrading to a MSI Twin Frozr 7950.
Seeing as you guys will be more in the know about current events than myself, would going from my 5870 (which has served me well) to this 7950 be worthwhile enough for me?
I game at 1920x1200 and I do like my eyecandy. The 1gb of memory I have on my 5870 has been an issue a few times, as well as the cards obvious limits with newer games.
got a 6990 ................
It seems very close performance to x2 7970s in xfire.
Thanks arc.
My 5870 is overclocked but I would get an even better overclock on the 7950 I reckon, so with that in mind I think an upgrade is incoming!
I'm sorry, but a 6990 is nowhere near xfired 7970's.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/HD_7970_CrossFire/5.html
75fps vs 122fps @ 1920x1200.
I sold one of the 6950s and got a 6990 second hand for 300 pounds on a very well known auction site. The system now smashes bf3 in eyefinity. I run everything maxxed accept anti aliasing and motion blur and it never dips below 60 fps.
It seems very close performance to x2 7970s in xfire.
Well I have 1 680 and I have anti aliasing maxed and I don't dip under 60 apart from very occasionally so it's not that impressive is it really?
I'm not willy waving or anything but come on, you aren't even max settings. Hardly warrants shouting from the rooftop about![]()