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    Question Would it be...

    worth changing from my present 7970 to a 290x or similar ?

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    Re: Would it be...

    As Johnny Five would say "Need more input!" - What resolution will you be playing at 1080p, 1440p or above & what CPU are you using?

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    Re: Would it be...

    Here's Anandtech's comparison of the 7970 Ghz Edition vs the stock 290X - there's quite a difference in benchmarks. It does depend on the resolution you're gaming at though. The 290X has 4Gb of VRAM of course, & is FreeSync & Mantle compatible, if those features are important to you...

    http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1031?vs=1056

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    Re: Would it be...

    Sorry forgot I have no signiture on here, 1080p (atm) i7 4770k @4GHz

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    Re: Would it be...

    Quote Originally Posted by conoflex View Post
    Sorry forgot I have no signiture on here, 1080p (atm) i7 4770k @4GHz
    My usual advice is to stick with your existing card, as long as it's capable of playing your games at the resolution & image quality you want. If it starts to struggle, then maybe think about upgrading. Of course AMD are supposed to be releasing their 300 series cards fairly soon, so the pricing of their range may change quite a bit after that...

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    Re: Would it be...

    It is a good upgrade but I would ask is your 7970 struggling on any titles? Have you tried overclocking it? I comfortably reached 1.1Ghz with default voltage on my 7950.

    Arh! Overposted Mr Jim. I agree. It seems like a lot to pay i.e. Around £250 when you will be hitting the limits of your monitor (Assuming 60Hz)

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    Re: Would it be...

    Cheers chaps I will hang on a bit, thanks all.

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    Re: Would it be...

    Quote Originally Posted by conoflex View Post
    worth changing from my present 7970 to a 290x or similar ?
    You'll be looking at a 30-35% increase, so quite a big jump.
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    Re: Would it be...

    ok thank you.

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    Re: Would it be...

    Quote Originally Posted by Gronich26 View Post
    As Johnny Five would say "Need more input!" - What resolution will you be playing at 1080p, 1440p or above & what CPU are you using?
    Oh I just noticed I made an error on resolution. I'm gaming at 1920 on i7 4770k @4GHz

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    Re: Would it be...

    Quote Originally Posted by conoflex View Post
    Oh I just noticed I made an error on resolution. I'm gaming at 1920 on i7 4770k @4GHz
    1920 would be the horizontal resolution, but most often the resolution refers to the vertical resolution, which would be either 1080 for a 16:9 panel, or 1200 for 16:10 (less common these days).

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    Re: Would it be...

    Quote Originally Posted by conoflex View Post
    Oh I just noticed I made an error on resolution. I'm gaming at 1920 on i7 4770k @4GHz
    That's almost certainly 1080p.

    Before 4K resolutions, we always defined a resolution by its vertical height. 1080p being 1920 x 1080.

    4K has changed that to horizontal for some reason.......go figure.
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    Re: Would it be...

    Quote Originally Posted by shaithis View Post
    4K has changed that to horizontal for some reason.......go figure.
    Thats marketing for you, 1080p/1440p stays standard for quite a while then suddenly you hear 4k and it sounds really impressive. Ofcourse when you actually check what resolution 4k is and discover its just double 1080p its not quite so impressive, the wonderful world of marketing.

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    Re: Would it be...

    Quote Originally Posted by conoflex View Post
    worth changing from my present 7970 to a 290x or similar ?
    No.

    MrJim has already suggested waiting to see what the 300 series cards have to offer, I'll second that and say go for a 390X. Hopefully AMD will take a leaf out of the nVidia book and bring the 3xx series cards out at a lower price than the launch price for the 2xx series cards.

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    Re: Would it be...

    Quote Originally Posted by KeyboardDemon View Post
    No.

    MrJim has already suggested waiting to see what the 300 series cards have to offer, I'll second that and say go for a 390X. Hopefully AMD will take a leaf out of the nVidia book and bring the 3xx series cards out at a lower price than the launch price for the 2xx series cards.
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    Re: Would it be...

    Quote Originally Posted by shaithis View Post
    Before 4K resolutions, we always defined a resolution by its vertical height. 1080p being 1920 x 1080.
    No we didn't. The fashion of referring to just height is a recent trend borrowed from the TV world and not all that sensible in a gaming context. 1080p could be 1920x1080 or 2560x1080 and while they're equivalent for video content there's a noticeable difference in performance when it comes to gaming.

    Before that we either gave both figures (1600x1200, 1920x1200) or we used names that referred to specific resolutions (UXGA, WUXGA, FHD etc.).

    The p is particularly silly, I don't know if there's ever been a game designed to be played with an interlaced output.

    Quote Originally Posted by jag272 View Post
    when you actually check what resolution 4k is and discover its just double 1080p its not quite so impressive
    It's four times the resolution usually referred to as '1080p', four 1920x1080 panels resulting from a doubling in both height and width.

    Unless you were referring to 2560x1080, in which case it's three times the pixel count

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