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What would you replace a 7990 with?

sorry to hijack the thread but I have a similar question. but
it's really a choice of a 7970 to trifire with my 7990 or xfire with two 290's.

what would you guys do?
 
Tri fire will be faster if the game supports it. However i think with your cpu you will bottleneck either setup a bit. I'd upgrade your cpu before adding another gpu.
 
LtMatt said:
In that case drink in all the gpu's you can manage. I guess the 290 will be better long term. Newer tech, hardware frame pacing, 1gb extra memory etc. Sell the 7990 and get 290 crossfire.
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ha! cheers.

on that point then any particular 290 you'd recomend ? it would be watercooled.
 
andrewohare said:
love the case!!
arc@css said:
Very, very nice colours / design indeed. :cool:
andrewohare said:
Self modded or bought like that?
Orangey said:
Looks like a Cosmos S Sport with custom carbon fiber-style paneling?
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See it on here >> https://www.facebook.com/msiuk scroll down to December 10th.

Direct Link >> https://www.facebook.com/ScorpiaProShop/posts/393602734104295

More pics on there, the reason I linked it was to show that their isn't hardly any space if you need to use PCI/PCI-E slot for a soundcard when in SLI.

The MSI GTX 780 Lightning's are thicker than a snicker!

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LtMatt said:
Assuming its 290X you want, this one.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-222-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752

Alternatively you could get this his one. However it only has a two year warranty and does not come with BF4.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-085-HS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752
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thank you. was looking at a 290
though from what I've seen I don't think I can justify the extra cash for the x with little differance in performance
 
This time of year is the best for impulse buys. I'd say do it. Wish the R9 290s with partner coolers were available now. They are cracking value. Also would like to see what the 290X lightning achieves but we'll probably have Maxwell out by the time Msi get round to that.
 
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