Thanks, tough one! Would a Corsair TX 750 psu be okay for the job? Also, I'm unsure of whether 2 x 7950 IceQ Boost would fit? I have a Z77 Asrock Extreme 4 motherboard.
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Thanks, tough one! Would a Corsair TX 750 psu be okay for the job? Also, I'm unsure of whether 2 x 7950 IceQ Boost would fit? I have a Z77 Asrock Extreme 4 motherboard.
I was just going to ask whether 7970 and 280X can be crossfired, so thank you for that
I wouldnt be surprised if somehow they are locked as different series of cards (so even though you are crossfiring the same chip, the balancing may not be equal).
As a general point, Im not convinced re-branding the old chip in the new series is the right thing to do - just seems a little underhanded to me.
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Yeah, should be fine. Board spacing looks good and runs in x8/x8. PSU can handle it.
What cpu do you have?
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Well, you're going to bottleneck those cards somewhat.
You really need an i7 to get the most out of them.
If not, you're better off with a powerful single GPU with the i5.
You really need an i7 to get the most out of them.
If not, you're better off with a powerful single GPU with the i5.
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The review on Toms Hardware confirmed that they do work fine in crossfire. Well, the 7970 and 280X at least.
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I see the AMD crowd are no longer bashing rebadging of GPUs.
Its allowed because they priced them cheap, otherwise.
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I agree, and was hoping for architecture improvements (GCN2.0 or whatever) across the board but it's mostly just the same.
It's not that interesting, but atleast we're getting better price/performance.
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No probs. Sorry to bring the bad news 
Are we ?? I don't see any improvements in price/performance, I see low to midrange prices have actually increased. I thought 270 would be a 1536 jobby. So we've lost our beloved 7850 and 7950, I can see why they did it too the buggers!! Also we should be bloody on 20nm bynow !!!
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before i buy one will this fit in a prodigy with side window?
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depends... is it an orange prodigy?
lol no its red one but iv heard before that a 7970/50 vapour x wouldnt fit
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The card needs to be a dual slot to fit in the prodigy. Length doesn't matter but you'll need to remove the 5.25" bay or its very difficult to install the power connectors.
A small amount of cards have cooler shrouds which make them take up a bit more than 2 slots, these ones will have some trouble in the prodigy. Looks like the 280x toxic will fit fine but probably best to wait for some pics from other angles to make sure its a true dual slot cooler.
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Guys
AMD say no to the games with new cards, so first thing I have to remove the games otherwise they will have me shot.
Nvidia did the same when the 780/770/760 came out. Why would AMD/Nvidia remove the free games from the latest cards? Makes no sense to me at all.
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They want to shift the older stock... but I think the prices of the new cards will do that already