Better than 4870x2 in Crossfire?

roast_pork · Mar 27, 2013

Here is my setup. I bought it in 2008 around October, just before i-7's came out, just bad timing.
I am running a NVIDIA NFORCE 790i ULTRA SLI MOTHERBOARD
8 GB of mem.
It's an Alienware Area-51 ALX-R8 with water cooling to the CPU but not the GPU.
The CPU is a YOR,INTEL QX9770 3.20/1600, 12M,4C PROCESSOR (I KNOW IT'S OLD, BUT GAMES RUN JUST FNE.)
My Monitor is an ASUS VE276 and I game at 1920x1080.
Hope this helps.

I am thinking of buying a 7970 to replace my Cross Fire setup of two 4870X2's, would this be a good move or should I wait another year to upgrade?

AMDRadeonHD · Mar 27, 2013

roast_pork :

Here is my setup. I bought it in 2008 around October, just before i-7's came out, just bad timing.
I am running a NVIDIA NFORCE 790i ULTRA SLI MOTHERBOARD
8 GB of mem.
It's an Alienware Area-51 ALX-R8 with water cooling to the CPU but not the GPU.
The CPU is a YOR,INTEL QX9770 3.20/1600, 12M,4C PROCESSOR (I KNOW IT'S OLD, BUT GAMES RUN JUST FNE.)
My Monitor is an ASUS VE276 and I game at 1920x1080.
I would wait.
Hope this helps.

I am thinking of buying a 7970 to replace my Cross Fire setup of two 4870X2's, would this be a good move or should I wait another year to upgrade?

Feldmarschall · Mar 27, 2013

Depends on how does your PC perform. That's real question. But 7970 is monster compared to 4870X2 and you'll se significant improvement. It is up to you to decide is worth that money.

But one thing is sure, if you wait for 1 more year or so, you'll probably consider of upgrading everything.

Cheers

swifty_morgan · Mar 27, 2013

2gig 6950/7850/7870......... more than enough for your system.

chromic · Mar 27, 2013

you could also get 7870 tahiti le, best price-perfomance at this point. only 200$ and when oc'd it can achieve a +10 000 3dmark 11 score
just for comparison, gtx 680 superclocked gets around 10 200

you could also get 2nd one later in xfire.

roast_pork · Mar 27, 2013

swifty_morgan :

Thanks, but I think I'll go ahead and buy the 7970 for $400.00 and besides I get 2 free games Cyrsis 3 and BioShock Infinite.
I'll probably get a new system once Haswell comes out, it will need different socket anyway, a 1150 as opposed to a 1155. Well onward and upward, thanks for the advice.

roast_pork · Mar 27, 2013

chromic :

Thats a great idea, but I just ordered a 7970, so I guess I'll have to buy another one after I get a new system next year and it will be even cheaper by then, I should have waited to read your post. :ouch:

spentshells · Mar 28, 2013

No way 7970 FTW as Imagine you have a decent overclock despite the nvidia chipset

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