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Recommended card for this Setup?

Clanpred

Clanpred

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I have a

Intel® Core™ i7 930 Quad Core Processor - LGA1336 - Overclocked to 3.6GHz
950W Desktop Power Supply

Asus P6X58D-E-USB3 - Intel Core™ i7 & i7 Extreme Edition - LGA1366
12GB DDR3 1600MHz Memory (6x 2GB KIt)
1536MB NVIDIA Geforce GTX480

The GTX 480 is dead and am wondering what should replace it?

AMD Sapphire HD7970 Vapor X or a GTX 680?

tHANKS
 
Hi There,

Sorry to hear your 480 died, as these are still very capable cards. What games do you play or plan on playing? The 7950 is a great value card (prices creeping up a little recently though) and will see you well in most games.

Another question is, what res do you play games at?
 
Depends on how much your willing to spend. Your cpu will be fine with any card out there, but if you want to save some money, then I'd go for a 7950 and overclock it as and when need be.
 
I got a large 27in mon (27" Iiyama Full HD Monitor - Prolite E2710HDSD ) so resolution is as high (1920 by 1080) as I can take it. Play FPS but occassionally dabble in RTS like Sup Commander and Shogun 2.

Don't mind £100 difference if the performance difference between 7970 and 7950.

What you think?
 
With your res and games you play, a 7950 will see you well. I would normally recommend MSI but of late, there has been so many reports of problems, I find this hard. Gigabyte have the best warranty but sadly OcUK have not had any in stock for some time.

The 7970 is a great card and a must buy if you want to do lots of bench testing but for gaming, the 7950 is so close to its bigger brother, the price difference isn't worth it IMO.
 
gregster said:
With your res and games you play, a 7950 will see you well. I would normally recommend MSI but of late, there has been so many reports of problems, I find this hard. Gigabyte have the best warranty but sadly OcUK have not had any in stock for some time.

The 7970 is a great card and a must buy if you want to do lots of bench testing but for gaming, the 7950 is so close to its bigger brother, the price difference isn't worth it IMO.
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I'd second that ^
So will most 7970/7950 owners.

The difference between the 7950>70 is less than 5% clock for clock. The extra potential headroom in overclocking from the 7970 isn't worth it either...not with the new drivers =)
 
so 7950 then and how does that compare to my old card the gtx 480? went well on my FPS but surprisingly got pretty noisy when detail on Shogun was ramped up.
 
The 480 was renowned for being a "Hot" card, so wouldn't take long before the fan was having to spin hard to keep temps down.

The 7950/70 runs a lot cooler now and so don't require the fans to be working so hard. They will be quieter.
 
Thks gregster, always annoyed me having to turn down shogun 2 resolution on campaign map cos of noisy card.

cheers everyone. any particular 7950 card?
 
No probs :)

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I would normally be recommending a MSI card but so many bad reports/feedback lately have put me off. OcUK will deal with the warranty, so this will help. Also there is a £10 cheaper version of this with lower clocks and that could be the card to get if you are more than comfortable with overclocking :)
 
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