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weaseled386
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Re: Some Pics Of My New 780

I removed my two MSI 7950's and installed one Galaxy 780. I LOVE THIS CARD! It is soooo smooth, and I have yet to hear the fans spool up. I haven't had an NVIDIA card since my X800 PRO back in the AGP days, and it looks like it'll be a looooong time before an AMD card sees use in my main rig.

However, now I'm stuck using a Corsair AX1200i power supply. It was the next step up from my 850 that the local store stocked... I bought it when I planned on tri-firing the 7950's...

Krisnatharok
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I'm not sure a single 780 is much of an upgrade over two 7950s...

Blockgorilla
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I'm an idiot, please disregard

weaseled386
join:2008-04-13
Edgewater, FL

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said by Krisnatharok:

I'm not sure a single 780 is much of an upgrade over two 7950s...

My gaming experience begs to differ. Is it as powerful? No. Is it smoother and more quiet? Absolutely.

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Were you using Radeon Pro to fix the CF microstutter? Someone on gamingpc clued me into it and my microstutter has completely disappeared on my 7970s.

Ghastlyone
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said by Krisnatharok:

Were you using Radeon Pro to fix the CF microstutter? Someone on gamingpc clued me into it and my microstutter has completely disappeared on my 7970s.

I was reading the other day Kris, about a trick with SLI/Crossfire and clocking one card just slightly higher (or lower) then the other. Which is supposed to help cure microstutter. I'm not sure how true that is.

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said by Krisnatharok:

I'm not sure a single 780 is much of an upgrade over two 7950s...

I agree. I don't know if the 780 was necessarily your best upgrade path at this very time. With dual 7950's you were able to basically skip a generation of GPU's. You probably didn't gain much(nothing worth noting or paying for, I'd imagine) with that particular transition of going CrossFire 7950's to a 780. I would've waited for later-stage 700 series or even 800 series cards next year.

@weaseled386 - Did you sell your 7950's after getting the 780? I suppose if you sold them and got a decent price for them($250-300 each) then put that money towards the cost of the 780... then that might not be so bad in the end. With a 780, you're actually sitting better with the more powerful, more future proof 780 upgrade path. X-Fired 7950's are basically the end of the line. Being able to add additional 780's down the road.

Basically, I'm assuming quite a bit here. I wonder what you actually did so maybe you can enlighten me, weaseled386.

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