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In about a week or so i'm going to buy a new gpu, from my awful GTX 550 Ti SLI...

 

And since it is a amd card vs nvidia, it's very hard to find out which one is the best.

 

These are the cards i am considering.

 

MSI Gtx 660 Ti power edition OC

 

http://www.msi.com/product/vga/N660Ti-PE-2GD5-OC.html

 

 

Sapphire 7950 Vapor- X OC boost

 

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1157&pid=1547&psn=000101

 

 

and one i am not even sure if i should buy.

 

http://www.msi.com/product/vga/N760-TF-2GD5-OC.html#overview

http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/GTX760DC2OC2GD5/

 

Gtx 760 

 

 

Which one of these should give me the best performance when overclocked and everything?

 

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7950 

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7950

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Out of those, 7950 definitely.

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Lol, first forum there was no nvdia vs amd war, thanks, i have my answer now ;)

Btw, abit off topic, but do i need good airflow to manage the heat that the 7950 will exhaust? i have the define R4 with the default fans (2 1000 rpm fans)

and if anyone knows how quiet are the vapor X coolers that would be nice

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Personally I would go with the 7950 and I think in a Define R4 it would be fine with your fans. The noise depends on the fans speed but when idle I'm sure that witht the Fractal Design case, you'll hardly hear it.

Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy?

 

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Lol, first forum there was no nvdia vs amd war, thanks, i have my answer now ;)

Btw, abit off topic, but do i need good airflow to manage the heat that the 7950 will exhaust? i have the define R4 with the default fans (2 1000 rpm fans)

and if anyone knows how quiet are the vapor X coolers that would be nice

The Vapor X cooler has a noise of 27 dbA under idle and 34dbA under load. 

 

The referance 7950 is a blower style fan, so you don't need very good airflow. The Vapor X cooler, on the other hand, is a internal exhaust cooler, so you need some air flow. The Define R4 would be fine for this.

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ok just go with 7950 is great card it will make you happy but if you can wait for the 9000 then just wait and get more great power that is up to you

The thing is that where i live brand new cards cost alot, a 680 in israel (referance) costs around  550 bucks, so i rather get previous gen cards instead a brand new overpriced one

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The thing is that where i live brand new cards cost alot, a 680 in israel (referance) costs around  550 bucks, so i rather get previous gen cards instead a brand new overpriced one

off the topic but can you tell me what is the price of mac-book air there lol

and yes I'm sorry i don't know isreal like you do. so go for what is best for your money

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760 sorry. Radeon drivers take too long to be good.

Their good now and the holy driver comes out the 31st. 7950 vapor-x FTW !!!

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760 sorry. radeon drivers take too long to be good.

To be fair the 7950 has been out there for a long long time. The drivers are as good as they can be at this point

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To be fair the 7950 has been out there for a long long time. The drivers are as good as they can be at this point

And the 760 has been out for less than 3 months. Drivers should improve =)

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And the 760 has been out for less than 3 months. Drivers should improve =)

I don't quite understand what you mean but all I'm trying to say is that even if it takes a long time for amd to fix their stuff that time has passed so it should be fixed. In other words since this is no longer a "new" graphics card he shouldn't worry about the drivers but should go for the card that gives him the most performance.

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In my opinion (and personally from a Linux user point of view), regarding drivers, nVidia Forceware > ATi Catalyst any day. I still have nightmares of back when I had a HD2600 laptop, the pain of enabling hardware accelerated 3D on Linux.

 

Now, for a standard user, for gaming, drivers really aren't that bad nowadays. In fact, I'd say they're more or less the same for Windows. Santa Clara has bugs, Sunnyvale has bugs too. SLI has its hitches (and I am a SLI user, so speaking from experience!), CFX has its issues too.

 

Back to the topic, I'd recommend you a 7950. Benchmarks usually put an overclocked 7950 over the GTX760 / GTX670 (as they're more or less the same card with better memory and a different name), overclocked too, by about 20%.

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I would stay away from the Vapor-X card because users reported having vrm heat issues and being voltage locked and not sure if it is fixed yet : http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?284714-Sapphire-HD7950-3GB-Vapor-X-Review

 

I would go with a MSI Twin Frozr 3 7950/ HIS IceQ X2 7950/Sapphire Dual-X 7950 as these cards have great cooling which allow you to overclock it. I would go with the one that is cheapest. 

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