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I have a sapphire reference r9-290 in my wifes gaming rig that I used to use in my gaming rig until I upgraded to a real video card and she don't like how loud it is...of course... anyway my cousin offered to trade me his sapphire 7970 and a 120gb corsair force ssd for my 290. It'd make my wife happy and I'd get a new ssd even though I don't need one as I have a few but I wouldn't have a decent backup card if mine burned up.. would you trade considering the circumstances? my wife only has a 1080 monitor BTW so a 7970 would be plenty enough power for her...

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Kraken g10 that b@$#& for Cheaap as.

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if you look @ the fps performance between them is like 5 to 6 no problem dude you're 7970 will be good for gaming 1080p or 1440p :)

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Yeah I would do it. Isn't the 290 a re-badged 7970? so you get a ssd and a good cooler for the same performance if it is.

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No, it is not a rebadged 7970. It uses the new "hawaii" architecture 

okay thanks, he can get a really good performing 1080p card with a better cooler and get a nice ssd.

Current System: CPU - I5-6500 | Motherboard - ASRock H170M-ITX/ac | RAM - Mushkin Blackline 16GB DDR4 @ 2400mHz | GPU - EVGA 1060 3GB | Case - Fractal Design Nano S | Storage - 250GB 850 EVO, 3TB Barracuda | PSU - EVGA 450W 80+ Bronze | Display - AOC 22" 1080p IPS | Cooling - Phanteks PH-TC12DX_BK | Keyboard - Cooler Master QuickFire Rapid(MX Blues) | Mouse - Logitech G602 | Sound - Schiit Stack | Operating System - Windows 10

 

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what exactly did you upgrade to? I wanna know what this "real video card" is ...

I think he was poking fun at the fact that when at full load the card sounds like a hair-dryer and he got something that wasn't that extreme.

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Peripherals: G602, AKG 240, Sennheiser HD 6XX, Audio-Technica 2500, Oneplus 5T, Odroid C2(NAS).

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I have a sapphire reference r9-290 in my wifes gaming rig that I used to use in my gaming rig until I upgraded to a real video card and she don't like how loud it is...of course... anyway my cousin offered to trade me his sapphire 7970 and a 120gb corsair force ssd for my 290. It'd make my wife happy and I'd get a new ssd even though I don't need one as I have a few but I wouldn't have a decent backup card if mine burned up.. would you trade considering the circumstances? my wife only has a 1080 monitor BTW so a 7970 would be plenty enough power for her...

I would kracken g10 the gpu

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