HD7950 price increase?

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So I randomly hit up Ebay to see about a cheap and unnecessary upgrade this morning. I was considering testing Crossfire w/ my HD7950.

It appears my card, the Gigabyte Windforce HD7950 3gb is fetching more of a premium now. I see that some listings say Mac Pro compatible.

Is this just Ebay price gouging, or is there a specific reason this card is selling higher?

If I can get a decent price, I will gladly upgrade.
 
Why are you looking at a 7950? Are you trying to crossfire with your existing one? I'd recommend getting a newer faster single card if you are looking to upgrade. What is your budget?
 
Why are you looking at a 7950? Are you trying to crossfire with your existing one? I'd recommend getting a newer faster single card if you are looking to upgrade. What is your budget?

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So I randomly hit up Ebay to see about a cheap and unnecessary upgrade this morning. I was considering testing Crossfire w/ my HD7950.

It appears my card, the Gigabyte Windforce HD7950 3gb is fetching more of a premium now. I see that some listings say Mac Pro compatible.

Is this just Ebay price gouging, or is there a specific reason this card is selling higher?

If I can get a decent price, I will gladly upgrade.

I'm not entirely sure why your particular card is fetching more but, in my fruitless search of 8800 Ultra's, the price is different week to week. Sometimes I find them for $80 and other weeks for $150.
 
Thank you folks. Yeah, I realistically wasn't going to crossfire unless it was a $20 weekend experiment.

Turns out my card is good for Hackintosh. -edit- And manning as you can see below.

I may indeed grab a newer card and drop the 7950 on the bay with a radical "buy it now" price.

What would you guys suggest in the $200 range?
 
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Thank you folks. Yeah, I realistically wasn't going to crossfire unless it was a $20 weekend experiment.

Turns out my card is good for Hackintosh.

I may indeed grab a newer card and drop the 7950 on the bay with a radical "buy it now" price.

What would you guys suggest in the $200 range?

Hey, if you're looking to offload that 7950 let me know when you list it. I've got a mining rig that looks pretty funny with 4 7950's and a R9 270 stuck in the middle of them. Runt of the pack. :) For the right "radical buy it now price" it won't be long on the ole' Bay, if ya know what I mean!

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I think I have my answer as to the price now.

Just listed it for $999.99 or best offer. I kid. I kid.
 
I still have a R9-280 up and running .. it's hooked to a 42" 4K display and running desktop at 4K 60Hz and it's DX 12 ready .. I have paired it with another 7950 on my old X58 /Xeon 6 core and as said it is faster the 290x /780Ti .. It still runs like a champ.
 
You can also crossfire it with a 7870 XT (tahiti LE), I did that for kicks once, only gave up a couple frames per sec to a 7950 the way I flashed it.

Still have that XT somewhere, what an odd card, was an overclocking beast.
 
Thank you folks. Yeah, I realistically wasn't going to crossfire unless it was a $20 weekend experiment.

Turns out my card is good for Hackintosh.

I may indeed grab a newer card and drop the 7950 on the bay with a radical "buy it now" price.

What would you guys suggest in the $200 range?

Your card is good for more then just hackintosh. I have two of them mining Zcash -- i bet two of them would net you like $75 a month mining after covering their electric. I looked at picking some more up as i had recently seen 7970s for $60 -- but im not willing to pay RX 470 prices for them...
 
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Thanks for the input everyone.

Picked up a VisionTek Radeon RX 480 8GB. Haven't gamed with it at all yet. Just installed drivers and ran Unigine Heaven real quickly. I haven't done any sort of tweaking yet either.

Now to clean up that HD7950 for sale.

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I remember my 4x 290X days ..... was pulling so much power it was tripping my 20amp breaker in the panel.

I had to end up running my Corsair AX1200 on a 240v line that I already have a few of em in my office because of HAM radio hobby I also do.

Just tossed this out here for fun of memories.
 
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