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7850 Vs Standard R280

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AngelfireUk83

AngelfireUk83

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Will it run a little better I am building another i7 rig and I am moving this PC in to another room and every game I play/own with my 7850 2GB just rocks for me and the settings I use never have any issues. But I was looking in to a small upgrade till the next gen of AMD cards comes out apart from the extra 1GB GDDR5 ram will it be better

Possible new rig

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon)
RAM: Kingston HyperX Genesis 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600MHz
Board: Gigabyte Z97-HD3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
OS Storage: Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5"
Storage 1: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache
PSU: Seasonic M12II EVO Edition 850W '80 Plus Bronze' Fully Modular
GPU: one listed above as I will just have enough for it
 
Agiel said:
kinda far dream ... :(
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Given the crazy deals from *coin miners offloading their cards it's not that far off.
Classifieds sellers are dropping 270's at around $70-$75, and eBay sellers are dumping 280's-290X's for really good deals assuming you get one with a transferable warranty in case the fans are going out.
 
wait !!! 70 ~ 75 dollars for a r9-270 ?? that is crazy !! those cards cost over 170$ in amazon, even your MB is really hard to find here in my country (love that Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P)
 
If you can snap up a 7970 on the cheapo, you're set. A 7970 is essentially a 280X. I have mine clocked with a modded bios @ 1100/1500. In benchmarks in comes up as a 280X and vice versa. I got mine for 125.

One of the fans was going bad. A phonecall to Gigabyte and had 3 new fans sent to me ;)
 
no no, if i can find, some one, he/she can bring it to me, but that's the problem hehe i haven't ... still looking, my firts upgrade is switch from my B75 to a z77 ... then the video card
 
i have 1 friend in miami, but somethime he don't have the money for that, and i have no way to send money to him, so i have to wait and wait and wait and in the end i guess i'll have to spend 170$ here in cuba with the overprice that we have here ...
 
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