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Trying to move from a 7990...

Irish_Hawk

Irish_Hawk

Irish_Hawk

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Hi all, advice would be appreciated!
I have had a 7990 for a couple of months now (bought second hand).
With the right drivers and a game with proper crossfire support the card is a beast, performs an excellent job be it at 1080p or using downscaling.

However between AMD's poor crossfire support (in my opinion) and more and more recent releases leaning towards NVidia I have been thinking about changing cards.
I will likely be purchasing a consumer version of the Oculus Rift and want to ensure lack of crossfire/sli support is not an issue from the get go.
My 7990 also runs hot and is quite noisy even after setting fan profiles.

Basically I want to move back to a single card, NVidia preferable, but I am not totally opposed to staying with AMD.
I guess the 980ti's are the most logical step but they are quite expensive, even after I sell the 7990.
What single card could give me top-notch 1080p performance and (hopefully) great Oculus Rift performance?

Let's say my budget is 400-450 pounds.
Thanks!
 
Thanks for the replies so far. fs123 I had seen that, some interesting information alright...

Where do the Fury cards fall down compared to the Fury X's?
Ditto for 980 v 980ti's?

I don't mind getting a card which is 5-10% slower on paper but will work well with games 100% of the time compared to my crossfire experience... :p
 
Reading a bit into this over the last day I'm leaning towards getting a fury and unlocking it to get it to a similar level of the fury X.

Out of the two AMD cards linked above, ignoring the price, I take it the Tri-X is the better card?
 
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One more quick question though, once I login the prices go up for every product, the Tri-X is now showing as 450.99 instead of 439.99. Is this because I'm in Ireland and the VAT rate is changed?
 
Irish_Hawk said:
Will do :).
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Good choice I moved from an MSI 290x gaming to the Fury Tri-X and it's like night and day.

I've gone from hot, loud and quite quick too cool, quiet and fast, It runs everything at 1440 via vsr on my 1080p monitor with ease. I'm getting a freesync 21:9 at some point and look forward to using it with that.
 
Graphics card arrived. Looks like I was sent the normal Fury Tri-X and not the overclocked edition. The OC edition is out of stock so looks like they just threw me the normal and hoped I wouldn't notice...
 
Irish_Hawk said:
Graphics card arrived. Looks like I was sent the normal Fury Tri-X and not the overclocked edition. The OC edition is out of stock so looks like they just threw me the normal and hoped I wouldn't notice...
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The only OC Fury is the Asus card which is overclocked by a measly 20MHz from the stock 1000MHz.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-378-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=3068

If you ordered the Sapphire Fury Tri-X then that is a standard card (1000MHZ). There is no OC variant.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-372-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=3068
 
fs123 said:
The only OC Fury is the Asus card which is overclocked by a measly 20MHz from the stock 1000MHz.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-378-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=3068

If you ordered the Sapphire Fury Tri-X then that is a standard card (1000MHZ). There is no OC variant.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-372-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=3068
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I ordered the OC version linked above in the third post, which is now unavailable...
 
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