Hey , This Christmas I am looking for an upgrade , I've been looking around and cant decide on which graphics card to get.
SPECS: i5-3570k - 16GB Ram - MSI 7870 - Corsair CX5oow (2months old) - GA-Z68XP-UD3 (rev. 1.3)
I play at 1080p and currently run most of my games pretty good but fancy an upgrade.
I have a choice to get a "used" HD 7990 that has apparently only been used for a "limited" time for £200-£16 Postage (Guy's selling quite a few), although it is in fact powercolor's first version of the 7990 (Unofficial one) which concerns me as it requires 3 8-pin PCIE power cables and is probably the "worst" 7990 since it is way before AMD made the official one. In many benchmarks I still see the HD 7990 up top most of the time and I understand that its performance is dependent on Crossfire support which is decent in most games I know of and I also believe that the stuttering has been mostly fixed as well. I also understand i will need a new PSU and will buy Corsair CX 750w since it is relatively cheap (£60) - This brings the price of this altogether up to around £280ish
MSI R9 290 - £215 - Good card overall , doesn't fall far behind the 7990/690/780 and is single GPU , think my PSU is fine for quite a while.
Palit GTX 970 - £250 / MSI 970 - £270 - Great card , better than R9 290 I believe and consumes far less power , interested in nVidia inspector also.
I play on a 74hz Monitor and like V-sync on or capped and understand that going for the HD 7990 is overkill considering the others can probably cope and cost far less power and heat, but I am at the point where I want a proper gaming experience and never have to bother with my FPS and custom tune graphics/tweaks and want to see never under 74Fps.
I hope this is an easy read and makes sense and just need some opinions to decide for me as haven't seen many people in this position before , Thanks so much for reading.
SPECS: i5-3570k - 16GB Ram - MSI 7870 - Corsair CX5oow (2months old) - GA-Z68XP-UD3 (rev. 1.3)
I play at 1080p and currently run most of my games pretty good but fancy an upgrade.
I have a choice to get a "used" HD 7990 that has apparently only been used for a "limited" time for £200-£16 Postage (Guy's selling quite a few), although it is in fact powercolor's first version of the 7990 (Unofficial one) which concerns me as it requires 3 8-pin PCIE power cables and is probably the "worst" 7990 since it is way before AMD made the official one. In many benchmarks I still see the HD 7990 up top most of the time and I understand that its performance is dependent on Crossfire support which is decent in most games I know of and I also believe that the stuttering has been mostly fixed as well. I also understand i will need a new PSU and will buy Corsair CX 750w since it is relatively cheap (£60) - This brings the price of this altogether up to around £280ish
MSI R9 290 - £215 - Good card overall , doesn't fall far behind the 7990/690/780 and is single GPU , think my PSU is fine for quite a while.
Palit GTX 970 - £250 / MSI 970 - £270 - Great card , better than R9 290 I believe and consumes far less power , interested in nVidia inspector also.
I play on a 74hz Monitor and like V-sync on or capped and understand that going for the HD 7990 is overkill considering the others can probably cope and cost far less power and heat, but I am at the point where I want a proper gaming experience and never have to bother with my FPS and custom tune graphics/tweaks and want to see never under 74Fps.
I hope this is an easy read and makes sense and just need some opinions to decide for me as haven't seen many people in this position before , Thanks so much for reading.