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What's with the pricing?

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Honestly, i've never found it so hard to choose a graphics card. I sold my GTX680 as I wasn't really using the power but i've had problems choosing what to downgrade to.

I mean the HD7970 is £330 (due to my case i'd have to have the VTX) and then there's a good £100 drop to the 7950, but then the 7870 comes in at £180, the 7850 at £140 and the 7770 at £100!

In the end I decided i'd like to try some overclocking and went for the MSI HD7850 Power Edition but even now i'm tempted to cancel it and go for the HD7870 as it's "only" £30 more for the same version of that card. But then it'll be "only" £30 to the HD7950, and so on...

So tell me, am I mad thinking like this? Should I stick with what I have, or is that £30/£60 extra worth it?
 
@ 1080P the 7850 will run games nicely (with a good OC). You sold the 680 to put money back in your pocket, so it would be defeating the object to start spending more?
 
It's a valid point, I just wondered if the faster cards really are worth the extra outlay. :p

Also from what I gather, the HD7870 isn't as good value for money as there's not as much overclocking headroom compared to the HD7850/7950?
 
See how it fares, you can always return it under DSR. I would think the 7850 should do very nicely for someone not requiring a top end graphics card; overclock it if need be, and you may see stock 7950 performance.
 
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I do have similar thoughts about the top end of PC gaming. What are people doing with all that power? What games are out there require it? Unless you have a multi monitor set up or are into 3d I cant see the value in spending that kinda money without games that take full advantage of it. That said, i guess some people simply enjoy building the best system in the same way people enjoy trying to get the most power out of their car.
 
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I do have similar thoughts about the top end of PC gaming. What are people doing with all that power? What games are out there require it? Unless you have a multi monitor set up or are into 3d I cant see the value in spending that kinda money without games that take full advantage of it. That said, i guess some people simply enjoy building the best system in the same way people enjoy trying to get the most power out of their car.
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You answered your own question I think.
 
dpmcalli said:
I do have similar thoughts about the top end of PC gaming. What are people doing with all that power? What games are out there require it? Unless you have a multi monitor set up or are into 3d I cant see the value in spending that kinda money without games that take full advantage of it. That said, i guess some people simply enjoy building the best system in the same way people enjoy trying to get the most power out of their car.
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I understand your thougths and you hit it on the nail. We buy new TV's when the old ones work perfectly fine. I consider the time I spend gaming as a hobby so therefore I am happy to spend a few quid on it.
 
What are people doing with all that power? What games are out there require it?
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We just need the software properly optimized for both AMD and nvidia (More so for AMD`s GCN as its new). Games will naturally push much harder, once the consoles are upgraded. I just hope the games are more compute centric - we are already seeing some signs of that in games already.
 
Okay so it arrived, it's installed, and working fine. I went into CCC with the intention to overclock, but the slider only goes to 1050MHz?

I whacked it right up and it's absolutely stable, but i've seen others on 1200MHz+? How is this done? Is there some registry hack or something to get more headroom on CCC?
 
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