Is this a good deal? Second hand graphics card

Gimaru

Gimaru

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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
 
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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)
 
The Joker said:
LOL 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 :D
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/thread jack alert

so tell me is the new chipsets/cpu out for intel and or amd yet ?
 
Gimaru said:
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)
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Sorry for being blunt..but you would have to be daft to pass on a deal like that mate :D
As for drivers, the current drivers are fine, running them on 3x 7970's without any issues whatsoever.

Pr⊕phet said:
/thread jack alert

so tell me is the new chipsets/cpu out for intel and or amd yet ?
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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.
 
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The Joker said:
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.
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Thanks for the infos.
 
Just got another offer... HD5970 for R3000. That sound worth it, or pass? For fiancee's gaming comp.
 
Gimaru said:
Just got another offer... HD5970 for R3000. That sound worth it, or pass? For fiancee's gaming comp.
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H U G E rip-off dude!!! Massive in fact. That card is what, 3 to 4 years old now? I would offer him R800 and not a cent more.

For R2800 you can get yourself a 7850.
 
Gimaru said:
Just got another offer... HD5970 for R3000. That sound worth it, or pass? For fiancee's gaming comp.
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Its a crappy price but a damn nice card.
I wouldn't pay more than R2200, if there is warranty remaining ect.
The 5970 is a dual gpu card, so it needs a minimum 700w decent quality psu and a massive case as they are huge and can get hot.
 
The Joker said:
Its a crappy price but a damn nice card.
I wouldn't pay more than R2200, if there is warranty remaining ect.
The 5970 is a dual gpu card, so it needs a minimum 700w decent quality psu and a massive case as they are huge and can get hot.
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You would pay R2200 for a 5970 :wtf: :confused:
 
Well I only have a 570w psu and 7i Core, if that matters. Small case and 3 inner fans.

Cheers for the heads up about the price.
 
Gimaru said:
Hmm but still it is better than the 7850 according to this

http://us.digitalversus.com/graphics-card/face-off/7248-12922-versus-table.html

Bit confused, eh. You guys sure sure it's a rip?
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IMO its not a good deal.the card is 2 generations old,has much higher power consumption, loads of heat, and probably has no warranty anymore. whereas the 7850 will have full warranty.can easily be overclocked to around 7950 base speeds.here is the thread that helped me make up my mind between a 6970 vs 7850

and in regards to that link.that 5970 is a 2gb card(1gb per core) and im pretty sure most 5970's were 4gb(2gb per core),and the 7850 is a 2gb card. This needs to be clarified since new games like BF3 and Max Payne can easily use more than 1gb of VRAM when you enable higher graphics.and at higher resolutions such as 1080P or multi screen displays, the VRAM becomes even more important.

with your power supply i definitely would rather take the 7850 and your cooling is sub-standard so the heat and power are very important factors

Hope this helps
 
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