Now What should I do Since there will be no new AMD cards for a while?

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I was anticipating getting a shiny new 8970 to play Crysis 3 with. As you can see in my sig I have 5870's in CFX which I have been happy with because the console ports (Which most PC games are now)do not really tax these cards. Crysis 3 has been stated that it will melt PC's (like Crysis 1 did). I may have a problem with my current setup!!

I am considering getting a 3rd 5870 for trifire but know it will be difficult finding a 2GB card. While looking at some benchmarks trifire has come a long way from the days when there was little to no advantage to it. Anyone know where I can get a 2GB 5870?

I feel getting a 7970 at this point is more of a lateral move and the best bang for the buck will be another 5870 until AMD releases new cards.

Am I missing something in my thought process?

I am currently running 3 2560*1440 monitors but currently only using a single monitor for gaming.
 
I was going to get 7970, hold on to it until new radeon came out. Then jump the boat and get it.


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I haven't heard from anyone that Crysis 3 beta is melting their PC's. If anything I heard the current gen GTX680's and 7970's are fine. I wouldn't buy another 5970 for tri-fire though as that just seems like a waste. Sell your crossfire 5970 for what you can now while it's still worth a little something and buy a gtx670 or 7950 and maybe go multi with them. Would be cheaper, or buy the Titan when it's released.
 
hcforde said:
I was anticipating getting a shiny new 8970 to play Crysis 3 with. As you can see in my sig I have 5870's in CFX which I have been happy with because the console ports (Which most PC games are now)do not really tax these cards. Crysis 3 has been stated that it will melt PC's (like Crysis 1 did). I may have a problem with my current setup!!

I am considering getting a 3rd 5870 for trifire but know it will be difficult finding a 2GB card. While looking at some benchmarks trifire has come a long way from the days when there was little to no advantage to it. Anyone know where I can get a 2GB 5870?

I feel getting a 7970 at this point is more of a lateral move and the best bang for the buck will be another 5870 until AMD releases new cards.

Am I missing something in my thought process?

I am currently running 3 2560*1440 monitors but currently only using a single monitor for gaming.
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Also take into account the value of your HD5870s. You may be able to get more money if you sell the HD5870s now over waiting.

I'd rather have a single card that works well, runs cool and is more energy efficient.

Could you get by with a single HD7XXX card or possibly a new NVIDIA Titan (if priced right)?
 
Got a 4890 in '08 for $170, a second one for 50 bucks in '11, and a third one for 40 in '12. Best money on a GPU I ever spent. I learned my lesson after buying a $500 7800 GTX in '05.

Two 4890s was a 6850 or better. The scaling was almost completely double. When I trifired, the scaling was equally as impressive and I got about a 50% boost. Really impressive for the age of the tech and the money. Each card used a lot of power, but it really didn't amount to anything cost-wise. Noise was fine.

If you can get a 2GB 5870 for 125-150 bucks then go for it! Right now with 2x 5870s you basically have the performance of one 7970. If you listened to the tards that have no clue what they're talking about and sold them and got a 670 you would actually be downgrading in performance.

With three, I think it's reasonable to expect 1 and 1/2 a 7970. The reason trifire and the like wasn't that great back then was that they were heavily CPU bottlenecked.
 
TheFlosser said:
Got a 4890 in '08 for $170, a second one for 50 bucks in '11, and a third one for 40 in '12. Best money on a GPU I ever spent. I learned my lesson after buying a $500 7800 GTX in '05.

Two 4890s was a 6850 or better. The scaling was almost completely double. When I trifired, the scaling was equally as impressive and I got about a 50% boost. Really impressive for the age of the tech and the money. Each card used a lot of power, but it really didn't amount to anything cost-wise. Noise was fine.

If you can get a 2GB 5870 for 125-150 bucks then go for it! Right now with 2x 5870s you basically have the performance of one 7970. If you listened to the tards that have no clue what they're talking about and sold them and got a 670 you would actually be downgrading in performance.

With three, I think it's reasonable to expect 1 and 1/2 a 7970. The reason trifire and the like wasn't that great back then was that they were heavily CPU bottlenecked.
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The "tards" recommend single card solutions because they require less power, generate less heat and are generally offer a more pleasant gaming experience when compared to older cards.

I agree that the OP should sell his 5870's now and get something else, as he'll end up having very little resale value in a few years.

Check out the 7870 MYST, OP. It's a damn good card for the price.
 
I do not need to, or want to sell the 5870's because I have a use for them beyond gaming. They are the ASUS Eyefinity6 cards with 6 miniDP outputs each. When I am not gaming I do financial trading.(actually I should have put that the other way around, LOL). I am looking for a temporary fix. I will know Tuesday just how badly I need the fix.

The TITAN price(projected to be $1000 is crazy). I understand that it is their pro line card and they need to keep it expensive so they do not cannibalize the pro segment and 'lose' profit. Coming out a day before Crysis makes me think it might be a strategic marketing move and you might need at least a couple of 7970's to run Crysis 3 full on OR a TITAN
 
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SonDa5 said:
Also take into account the value of your HD5870s. You may be able to get more money if you sell the HD5870s now over waiting.

I'd rather have a single card that works well, runs cool and is more energy efficient.

Could you get by with a single HD7XXX card or possibly a new NVIDIA Titan (if priced right)?
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Yeah but he is running THREE monitors, one card wont cut it.
 
Hedonist said:
The "tards" recommend single card solutions because they require less power, generate less heat and are generally offer a more pleasant gaming experience when compared to older cards.

I agree that the OP should sell his 5870's now and get something else, as he'll end up having very little resale value in a few years.

Check out the 7870 MYST, OP. It's a damn good card for the price.
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unless you run multi monitor there really isnt much reason to have more than one good video card

he could get a pair of 7950's more reasonably than 7870's, he could also look at the nvidia 660 ti's which are a really good value right now.
 
OP there are people who have moved from dual HD 6950s to HD 7950 and HD 7970 and found the performance to be better in the latest DX11 titles. the HD 7000 cards have a much superior DX11 architecture compared to HD 5000 and HD 6000 series cards. improved tesselation and compute performance. the MSAA perfomance of HD 5000 and HD 6000 cards in deferred rendering engines like FrostBite 2 (BF3, MOH Warfighter) and Dunia 2 (Farcry 3) is poor. In these games HD 7900 cards are more than 2x the perf of HD 5870, HD 6950, HD 6970.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/HD_7950_X2_Boost/28.html

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HD 6950 - 63
HD 7950 iceq x2 boost - 100
HD 7970 Ghz - 115

HD 6950 is slightly faster on avg than HD 5870. HD 7950 is 3 - 6% slower than HD 7970 at the same clocks. HD 7950 at 1100 - 1150 mhz matches HD 7970 Ghz . CF scaling in best cases is 1.8x. but on avg across many games its 1.6x. so even at stock speeds the HD 7950 boost would match HD 5870 CF. HD 7950 boost with OC to 1150 mhz will be easily faster than HD 5870 CF across the board.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/HD_7950_X2_Boost/31.html

BF3 1920 x 1200

HD 6970 - 40.3
HD 7950 iceq x2 boost - 67.5
HD 7970 Ghz - 78.9
HD 7950 iceq x2 boost(1210) - 82.9

single GPU is always better than multi GPU as it provides the best and most consistent experience. CF has its own issues with microstuttering, poor CF scaling in few games. CF sometimes can even get frustrating with the game being totally unplayable.also the latest games take quite a bit of time to get stable CF with good scaling.

sell your HD 5870 cards for 120 bucks each. get a HD 7950 boost for USD 300. comes with 2 free AAA games - Crysis 3 and Bioshock infinite. if you want to spend more go for a HD 7970 Ghz with unlocked voltage. the HD 7970(925 Mhz) is just 5% faster than HD 7950 boost at stock. but costs 80 - 100 bucks more. you would rather spend another 40 - 50 bucks and get the HD 7970 Ghz to get atleast 10% better stock performance over HD 7970(925 Mhz). Sapphire HD 7950 boost , Sapphire HD 790 Ghz vapor-x , HIS HD 7970 Iceq x2 Ghz are good options.
 
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Stupid decision from AMD. I'm switching to the other side going 4X Titans to replace my 4X 7970s.

At 7680X1600 I can't wait 2 years to get better cards! Those Titans seems to be really good. The 680 was so lame. 4X 680 was soooo useless for me. Because of the limited bandwidth 4X 680 were choking badly at those resolutions. i had to return them.
 
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