Not Happy with 7870, upgrade help needed!

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iSpecialTime

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Hey everyone,

So, I've had an MSI GHz edition 7870 twin frozr design for a little while now, and although it's a good card, its just not enough for my needs. 2gb vram is bottlenecking me with mutli monitor setups, and the voltage is locked preventing me from oc'ing it much above the factory clock. A good card, but not enough for me.

I'm not really sure what my budget is, and I am willing to wait a few months if need be, as the card is not horrible by any means. To help with suggestions, I'll say try to keep it under 400$. I'm not loyal to AMD or nVidia, so either company works.

The rest of my parts:

i7 3770k @ 4.3ghz
ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 LGA1155
Corsair TX650w psu
WD re4 1tb hdd @7200rpm.
160gb SSD boot+application drive
CM elite 430 mid tower case.
 
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I would go with a single HD 7970. The larger amount of VRAM will help with multiple displays, something that adding a second 7870 does not help with. Also a stronger single card is almost always better than a multi GPU solution due to all games not supporting Crossfire and Sli and micro stuttering.
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I thought about this, but I'm wary about microstuttering, and with a single card that makes me happy now, I could get a second one in CF in a year or two to get the most out of my system. I feel like going CF now will force me to buy more cards in the long run.
 
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the great randini

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they do perform well in crossfire
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I would go with a single HD 7970. The larger amount of VRAM will help with multiple displays, something that adding a second 7870 does not help with. Also a stronger single card is almost always better than a multi GPU solution due to all games not supporting Crossfire and Sli and micro stuttering.
 
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This card is voltage locked, which slaughters my hopes, dreams, and aspirations of overclocking.
 
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this is where i'm leaning. Just gotta find the right one for me!
 
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I've seen this post about sli/cf before. Just personally, I like to stay with the single card solutions. Thanks for the info though!
 
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I've only had it for 4 months but haven't had any trouble, its also nice that it blows the hot air out of the back of the case. And it will actually come with core clock at 925 not 850 as it says. And my friend has used HIS graphics cards religiously and he really likes them and hasn't had any trouble.
 
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Alright, This will be one of the contenders then! thanks a lot.

Gonna wait for some other contenders to enter this match!
 
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With multiple monitors and a $400 budget the 7970 is a much better choice than an HD 7950. Vanilla 7970s generally overclock to 7970Ghz edition levels quite easily. I don't believe you need a voltage unlocked model to achieve this.
 
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