My mate wants to sell me his old graphics card, but would like to hear some outside opinions on how good a deal it is- seeing as it's quite a bit of money.
Bought it, cheers
Is this a good deal? Second hand graphics card
My mate wants to sell me his old graphics card, but would like to hear some outside opinions on how good a deal it is- seeing as it's quite a bit of money.
Bought it, cheers
Last edited by Gimaru; 29-06-2012 at 09:04 PM.
I think rather go for nvidia
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LOL Show me a Nvidia card that performs like a 7950 for that price... xDOriginally Posted by Pr⊕phet
I think rather go for nvidia
Seriously insane deal that.
If you're not keen on it drop me a pm, I might just take it
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/thread jack alertLOL Show me a Nvidia card that performs like a 7950 for that price... xD
Seriously insane deal that.
If you're not keen on it drop me a pm, I might just take it
so tell me is the new chipsets/cpu out for intel and or amd yet ?
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Sorry for being blunt..but you would have to be daft to pass on a deal like that mate
As for drivers, the current drivers are fine, running them on 3x 7970's without any issues whatsoever.
Intel's Z77 chip set is now the new in thing, and Ivy bridge replaces the Sandy bridge.
In all honesty, if you are running Sandy, there is no reason to upgrade to Ivy as there is roughly a 5% performance increase and sometimes that performance increase drops to below Sandy performance, depending on what you're doing ect.
That said Ivy does boast really decent on board graphics, still slower than AMD's on board gpu's
It also supports Lucid virtu, although this tech is still in its infancy and will take years to mature and be usable 24/7.
As for AMD, they are releasing their new APU series now, with their next major desktop chip supposedly launching towards the end of this year. Expecting roughly a 15% performance increase on current gen Bulldozer cpu's.
Edit: Intel is already planning on launching their next line of cpu's (Haswell) mid June/July next year...So seriously not worth upgrading from sandy to Ivy and then upgrading again in less than a year. Haswell will come with a socket change so current boards will not be able to use haswell.
Just doesn't make financial sense.
Last edited by The Joker; 26-06-2012 at 06:18 PM.
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Thanks for the infos.
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Yeah I was thinking the same, drivers are giving me massive hassles atm on my ATI. But if this is a deal I'm willing to deal with it because this card is about 3 times better than my current (literally)
Jaaaaayzuz if you don't want it, or Joker doesn't want it, I will take it!
Cheers for the replies lol, picking it up by him then!
Just got another offer... HD5970 for R3000. That sound worth it, or pass? For fiancee's gaming comp.
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