Should I have waited?

[ExperimentalHDX]

Last year in October I bought a 7950 for £199.99 because I needed a gpu upgrade as I had a 6950. Now I'm seeing R9 280x's that are close to what I paid for my 7950...

Should I have waited and bought a 280x? Or was getting the 7950 (which I'm more than happy with) a bad decision.

Thanks!

 

[jh30uk]

The prob is you will always be waiting then.

 

[Uncle Petey]

You're missing very little either way

 

[James J]

You're missing very little either way

This.

The speed difference between what you have and that card (which is basically a rebadged 7970) isn't anything worth talking about. Look at it this way, you've enjoyed a good few months of gaming with the 7950 upgrade you bought over your 6950. If you waited, you'd have been stuck with the 6950

 

[MagicBoy]

I never understand posts like this. You've had 7 months use in the meantime, and the 280X is basically a tweaked 7970.

Prices generally trend downwards as the manufacturing processes improve.

 

[ocmanus]

If you take the approach that once you've bought tech it's old news a week later you worry about these things less. If you're happy with it then be content. Otherwise sell it and get the one you want now.

 

[Uncle Petey]

This.

The speed difference between what you have and that card (which is basically a rebadged 7970) isn't anything worth talking about. Look at it this way, you've enjoyed a good few months of gaming with the 7950 upgrade you bought over your 6950. If you waited, you'd have been stuck with the 6950

Yep, the only real difference you'd see is mainly in balls out benchmarking situations.
In the real world, you'd not notice a thing without A-B tests and an fps counter showing a pretty small difference.

 

[postmanfw]

Could have got a 2nd 6950

 

[bells]

Well i went from a 7950 to a 280x Gigabyte Windforce and i noticed the difference right away ! definately faster smoother and better looking but i should have waited and got a 290 as it would have been a better upgrade

 

[darket]

The 7950 is a cracking card , why dont you stop worrying about it and crossfire it with another 7950, 7970 or a 280x, any of those combinations will work perfectly .

 

[Uncle Petey]

Well i went from a 7950 to a 280x Gigabyte Windforce and i noticed the difference right away ! definately faster smoother and better looking but i should have waited and got a 290 as it would have been a better upgrade

Is that the windforce with a stock boost of 1100mhz?
What clocks were you running the 7950 at?

 

[bells]

The 7950 was a Msi Twin frozer @ 960 and the Windforece is at 1100

 

[triss]

You have had use/enjoyment from your card its a good chioce
O/c it if you havent already imo

 

[Kaapstad]

It would be very difficult to tell the difference between a HD 7950 and 280X when gaming.

 

[darket]

It would be very difficult to tell the difference between a HD 7950 and 280X when gaming.

+1 , i saw VERY little gain between my WF3 7950 and WF3 7970 even at stock speeds , the 7950 overclocked much better too.

I got a second WF3 7970 to crossfire and saw no benifit over the 7950/7970 crossfire combo and sold the second 7970 on.

 

[Buxton]

The 7950 is a cracking card , why dont you stop worrying about it and crossfire it with another 7950, 7970 or a 280x, any of those combinations will work perfectly .

^ I agree. I've seen a lot of people ebaying their 79XX cards stupid cheap so i'd look at bossing it with dual 7950's rather than one slight improvement.