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Need opinion 280X

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Just bought a Sapphire 280X that has been used for 90 days for mining. I got a two week guarantee on it and feel comfortable with the seller here on the H.

I have a Sapphire 7950 but couldn't resist the price, a very good deal.
Looking for suggestions:
Do I Xfire?
Run the 280X and sell the 7950?
Trade them both and go for a 290X? Yeah I do like the 780s but the money is not there, no way, no how.
I have read all the benchmarks and know that I can only expect a few percent extra from the 280 but my card is nearly six month old! I needed an upgrade.
What do you think?
 
I'd say trade both for a non-reference 290X. Performance is really good and it won't have Xfire issues.
I don't know what you consider "needing an upgrade", but a 7950's got mileage still. Regardless, all of those cards will do well.
 
you have to list rest of your pc specs....cause it depends on if you would be bottle necked to give an accurate answer......but if you wanted a 290 i don't see why you purchased the 280x Unless you paid 100 or less for it.....i can tell you from experience..my 7970 does indeed work fine but ultimately is still the biggest bottleneck in my pc...but i don't exactly have a weak system either....for 1080p gameing on all but crysis 3 it runs max pretty well above 60fps
 
7950 clocked up=7970 +/- so the same applies to a 280x, a 290 would be that much further headroom as they have many very nice cards out for 290s now. Cfire them for extra performance if your resolution demands it, but to sell them both for a 290 seems like a waste of $ (unless your rig truly demands that extra performance) when very likely we will start hearing word on the new cards very shortly.

how can a 27" 1080p at 60Hz (by spec) have a 7970 clocked up bottleneck it, they are by no means slow cards, granted some games do better with Nvidia hardware, most play just fine on both, well I suppose if you are jacking the settings to rat shit that might matter :p

anyways, 280x is definitely the more powerful card unless you happen to have a 7950 that can clock like a bat out of hell, keep the 280x sell the 7950 or use it for dedicated mining (or backup card)
 
Unless I happen on a great 290(x) deal, I'll probably be using my 280x crossfire cards until 4K price settles, 60hz is a proper minimum (or more), and adaptive sync monitors are standard. By then one, possibly two card generations will have passed, and any teething issues will be resolved.

280x cards run smooth I have to say, these days I seem to be using using between 2 to 3gb vram pretty regularly so it may become an issue soon, but not yet.
 
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