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Who's getting a 7*** Series Card or Nvidia equivalent

Bramill

Bramill

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I currently have a 6950 2GB and with the current situation with pc gaming, i'm doubting it will be worth upgrading my graphics processing power until consoles get released. The only thing I can see making it worthwhile is if i go Eyefinity or 2560x1440 res.

If i was to go 2560x1440 or Eyefinity at 1080p I doubt I'd go crossfire, but that's only from a lot of negative feedback I've seen on this forum about crossfire/sli. I'd just get the best bang for buck 7*** series card.

What are your thoughts on the matter at hand?
 
Not for me, I find games run just fine with a gtx480 SOC. It's more likely I'll upgrade to a new case, cpu and motherboard first before adding another gpu - otherwise that really would create a bottleneck. I've come about as far as I can with this mobo and cpu.
 
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ill get the 7970 when its released, around jan/feb i think :)
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Suppose you would get a good price for your 6970 if you sold it and it wouldn't be such an expensive upgrade, i hadn't thought about that till now lol xD.

Maybe i'll do that. Then i'd just have to go 2560x1440! and then comes the massive headache of finding the perfect monitor, I wish i could justify buying the dell 27inch but it's just so overpriced compared to the hazro.
 
I plan on it. IMO nothing currently offered is a huge upgrade from my 5850 @ 1ghz other than a 580 which is pricey....hopefully next gen will offer awesomeness.
 
I am borrowing a 5770 from a friend at the moment since I want to wait to see what the 7000 series has to offer. If it is nothing significant hopefully I can get a cheap 6950 or maybe even a 6970.

But if the 7000 series turns out brilliant then I will be getting a 7950, maybe 70 depending on my prices and my financial problems at the time.
 
Funny thing is, If I had bought 5850s in the first place instead of 5770s, I wouldnt have gone mad with getting GTX 460s / 560s.

I think Im going to keep my 560tis though, they are nice ones too that overclock like mad, 1 Ghz core, 4.8 Ghz ram.

I spent more than I normally would on my new CPU and SSD so no new graphics cards until 2013 I think.
 
Bramill said:
I doubt I'd go crossfire, but that's only from a lot of negative feedback I've seen on this forum about crossfire/sli. I'd just get the best bang for buck 7*** series card.

What are your thoughts on the matter at hand?
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Oh don't get me wrong, I love CrossFire... when it works but for a while now, it's a new game... CrossFire can be yay or nay. AMD releases drivers+CAPS, things become hunky dory. Game developer patches the game, CrossFire breaks. Weeks pass by, even months, still waiting, AMD release more updated CAP's or drivers. Sometimes another release from the game developer breaks it, other times it doesn't, or AMD breaks it a version later or two. Or like I had experienced going from 11.9 to 11.11, the performance has degraded in the like of Crysis/Crysis 2/Brink but better in Battlefield 3 etc.

It feels like a cat and mouse game. Would you not agree thats damn right infuriating? I spend more time faffing about testing things than playing the damn games.
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For months now it's been a complete flop with drivers/CAP's getting rushed and things are broken longer than they're fixed.

How bad is it when you don't want to patch your games because things will break and if you don't patch you can't play online.
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Skyrim ran like crap on crossfire too while Nvidia had SLI support released a day before its released.

Also Physx is very nice in the games that support it.
 
I will definitely be looking long and hard at perhaps a 7870.
I run a 470 at the moment and I'm not sure how long it's going to last; especially as I keep on forgetting to switch Afterburner profiles when I'm playing and end up running the card at 107c for hours on end :o
 
Im pretty sure my 2gb 6950 will run most next games next year, can't think of any major titles that will push graphics far, maybe mass effect 3 and hitman absolution, if its a worthwhile port, im expecting the next gen consoles to perhaps be released late next year, early 2013
 
ill probably upgrade from my 5870CF around summer time to whatever nvidias latest offering is for ArmA3. It will be using physx and nvidia has always coped with arma3 a tiny bit better than AMD.
 
Every new gen of cards i say i will skip and give my wallet a rest but always give in and buy in the end. So this time i would like to say yes whithout fail i will buy a pair of 7970's
 
not sure what im gonna do yet, ive got a saphire 5850 ocd but in bf3 it feels like its struggling and afterburner is reporting more vram usage than the card has onbaord :(
 
HD7970 or HD7950 for me soon after launch (will wait for reviews and price vs performance compared to my current HD6970).

I need more power from a single card for Eyefinity (3560x1920 Portrait Eyefinity).

Nvidia cards will be an option depending if they can do surround from a single card.
 
Ill be replacing my 470's with something, just gotta wait to see what performance is like. I wont be buying the high end offerings as theyre too expensive, probly go for one lower range then add another later. Never had an ati card before so i may be tempted to try one, if price and performance are good. Hopefully with nv cards well see 2gb of vram onboard.
 
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