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The 7950 is the better card so buy the 7950. However I would wait for 9000 series to see if you can get more performance for your money.

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Hi, Everybody

 

I'm building a system for a friend of mine and wanted to know if i should choose the 7870 or the 7950. He is playing on one monitor and wants to be able to run Skyrim on Ultra 60 FPS+, and some other games like BO2, Battlefield, Bioshock etc.

 

Specs: (for now)

 

Case: Antec Three Hunderd two CPU: Intel I5 3.4 GHz Motherboard: MSI Z77A- G43 GPU: Asus HD7870 DCII PSU: Corsair CX600m SSD: Samsung 840 Basic HDD: Seagate 1TB Memory: Corsair Value 16GB CPU Cooler: Scythe Mugen DVD: Samsung DVR DL 24x Ketboard: Logitech G105

 

He will also be running a minecraft server so that explains the 16 gb of RAM. Something to note the 7950 is not in stock and I will need to wait a week and he really really wants his pc :)

 

Budget is 1000 euro (this build is 1001 euro)

  CPU:   Intel I5 3570K @ 4,6 GHZ   -- MOBO: Asrock Z77-Extreme4 -- GPU: EVGA GTX 770 2GB -- PSU:Corsair TX750M -- R AM: 16 GB 1333 MHz -- HDD: 2x 2TB -- 1x 120 GB HyperX SSD -- AUDIO: Creative Audigy 2 -- CASE: Fractal Design R4

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The 7950 is the better card so buy the 7950. However I would wait for 9000 series to see if you can get more performance for your money.

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Change that 16GB of ram to 8, and put the money you saved into getting a 7970 instead of a 7950. 

 

EDIT: Didn't see you wanted to run a Minecraft server, but surely 8 would still be fine?

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 @ Stock, CPU cooler: Dark Rock 4, Motherboard: MSI B450M PRO-M2 MAX, RAM: 2x8GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4 @ 3000Mhz, GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 ACX 3.0, SSD: Crucial P1 1TB M.2 + 2x120GB SSDs, Case: Corsair 110R, PSU: Corsair TX650M, OS: Windows 10 64-bit.

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Okay

  CPU:   Intel I5 3570K @ 4,6 GHZ   -- MOBO: Asrock Z77-Extreme4 -- GPU: EVGA GTX 770 2GB -- PSU:Corsair TX750M -- R AM: 16 GB 1333 MHz -- HDD: 2x 2TB -- 1x 120 GB HyperX SSD -- AUDIO: Creative Audigy 2 -- CASE: Fractal Design R4

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9000 series is looking to be a huge improvement I might even sell my 7950 which is barely 2 months old to get one if they live up to the hype. If you need one now then the 7950 is it.

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This is a good card right 

 

Asus HD7950-DC2T-3GD5-V2

  CPU:   Intel I5 3570K @ 4,6 GHZ   -- MOBO: Asrock Z77-Extreme4 -- GPU: EVGA GTX 770 2GB -- PSU:Corsair TX750M -- R AM: 16 GB 1333 MHz -- HDD: 2x 2TB -- 1x 120 GB HyperX SSD -- AUDIO: Creative Audigy 2 -- CASE: Fractal Design R4

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9000 series is looking to be a huge improvement I might even sell my 7950 which is barely 2 months old to get one if they live up to the hype. If you need one now then the 7950 is it.

You dont understand this guy is calling me every day he wants that pc so bad

  CPU:   Intel I5 3570K @ 4,6 GHZ   -- MOBO: Asrock Z77-Extreme4 -- GPU: EVGA GTX 770 2GB -- PSU:Corsair TX750M -- R AM: 16 GB 1333 MHz -- HDD: 2x 2TB -- 1x 120 GB HyperX SSD -- AUDIO: Creative Audigy 2 -- CASE: Fractal Design R4

-- Actually Like Windows 8 --

 
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Is this a good 7950 card

 

Asus HD7950 DCII TOP V2,3GB

  CPU:   Intel I5 3570K @ 4,6 GHZ   -- MOBO: Asrock Z77-Extreme4 -- GPU: EVGA GTX 770 2GB -- PSU:Corsair TX750M -- R AM: 16 GB 1333 MHz -- HDD: 2x 2TB -- 1x 120 GB HyperX SSD -- AUDIO: Creative Audigy 2 -- CASE: Fractal Design R4

-- Actually Like Windows 8 --

 
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Thanks everyone I am buying this card

 

Asus HD7950 DCII TOP V2,3GB

 

with 8GB ram

  CPU:   Intel I5 3570K @ 4,6 GHZ   -- MOBO: Asrock Z77-Extreme4 -- GPU: EVGA GTX 770 2GB -- PSU:Corsair TX750M -- R AM: 16 GB 1333 MHz -- HDD: 2x 2TB -- 1x 120 GB HyperX SSD -- AUDIO: Creative Audigy 2 -- CASE: Fractal Design R4

-- Actually Like Windows 8 --

 
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