Hello all. I recently purchased a 7950. This one to be exact http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202007.
I am very happy with it so far but I do have a few questions.
First of let me start by saying that I've been playing the games that came with the card and it runs them very well with most settings turned all the way up.
The few graphical options that lower my fps in these games are...
1, Shadows
2, Anti-Aliasing above FXAA.
3, Tressfx for Lara's hair in Tomb Raider.
So my question is... Is it the card that can't handle these settings or could it be my CPU? I have an i7 920 2.6ghz.
I've heard that the shadows are lowering my fps because of my CPU.
I'm considering overclocking my CPU and maybe the card also. I'm pretty much clueless when it comes to overclocking but I've been told that as far as the card goes it's safe as long as I don't mess with the voltage. Catalyst Control Center has AMD overdrive where I can increase stuff on the card. If I decide to OC the card should I use CCC to do it or a different program.
I could also use some info on overclocking my CPU if anyone is familiar with the ordeal.
Two weeks after I got the 7950 Nvidia released the 700 series cards and this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202008 sapphire 7970 dropped to $329.00 only $30.00 more than what I payed for my 7950. I kinda wanted to send back the 7950 and get the 7970 or maybe even a gtx 770 but I already downloaded the free games so if I sent it back newegg would deduct like $170.00
At any rate I'm still happy with the 7950 and I've read that it's almost on par with a 7970 and can be overclocked very well.
I play on a 24 inch monitor at 1080p I think it is. Also, I bought new RAM Gskill 8gigs 1600mhz to replace my old 6 gigs, 1 gig sticks with 533 mhz.
Sorry for the wall of text, just trying to soak up as much info as I can Thanks
I am very happy with it so far but I do have a few questions.
First of let me start by saying that I've been playing the games that came with the card and it runs them very well with most settings turned all the way up.
The few graphical options that lower my fps in these games are...
1, Shadows
2, Anti-Aliasing above FXAA.
3, Tressfx for Lara's hair in Tomb Raider.
So my question is... Is it the card that can't handle these settings or could it be my CPU? I have an i7 920 2.6ghz.
I've heard that the shadows are lowering my fps because of my CPU.
I'm considering overclocking my CPU and maybe the card also. I'm pretty much clueless when it comes to overclocking but I've been told that as far as the card goes it's safe as long as I don't mess with the voltage. Catalyst Control Center has AMD overdrive where I can increase stuff on the card. If I decide to OC the card should I use CCC to do it or a different program.
I could also use some info on overclocking my CPU if anyone is familiar with the ordeal.
Two weeks after I got the 7950 Nvidia released the 700 series cards and this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202008 sapphire 7970 dropped to $329.00 only $30.00 more than what I payed for my 7950. I kinda wanted to send back the 7950 and get the 7970 or maybe even a gtx 770 but I already downloaded the free games so if I sent it back newegg would deduct like $170.00
At any rate I'm still happy with the 7950 and I've read that it's almost on par with a 7970 and can be overclocked very well.
I play on a 24 inch monitor at 1080p I think it is. Also, I bought new RAM Gskill 8gigs 1600mhz to replace my old 6 gigs, 1 gig sticks with 533 mhz.
Sorry for the wall of text, just trying to soak up as much info as I can Thanks