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no she is running 1280 x800
 
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no she is running 1280 x800

About the same amount of pixels as my 1440x900. I did a test 2 days ago that shows Crysis 2 (not 3) using almost 8GB of RAM (7.26GB) http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2878258&postcount=28

I think before dropping any money. Swap out the ATI 6970 from your rig into your daughter's and test Crysis 3. If it plays well, drop £146 on a new one for her.

If it doesn't play well (it should) you know there is bottlenecking due to CPU, RAM capacity, and RAM bandwidth.
 
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I have ran Crysis 1, Crysis add on for 1 and Crysis 2 up full with my 6970 with no problems on my old system which is lying in a box doing nothing.

Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H (rev 2.0) motherboard
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yes your right I should give her that as well.
 
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While the issue was great to hear about and see some concrete values on it, the reality is most time you dont even know its happening and once AMD fixes it, all that fancy equipment everyone bought to review this will be all for not. We arent jumping on the bandwagon. Its much ado about nothing, especially post AMD fix. Its microstuttering, its on both camps, but AMD is worse. It just depends. I always say get a single card in the first place unless you are at 2560x1600 or multiple monitors. I dont like SLI/Crossfire and this blown out of proportion issue wouldnt stop me from getting either camp in a multi GPU config personally.

I wouldn't say it was blown out of proportions at all. Difference between what's FRAPS measures and what's observed is huge. Crossfire is broken, AMD admitted it.
 
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Benchmark Scores Faster than yours... I'd bet on it. :)
Im with guru3d... :p

Stuttering, measuring anomalies... isn't everybody overreacting? Well yes and no. Small anomalies rendered and which you can experience on screen always have been a part of a graphics card and your overall game experience. For years now we have had that, for years now most of you have not been bothered by it. Aside from a small group enthusiast end-users and analysts, that is the primary context you need to keep in mind when it comes to FCAT measurements, really.

So it is more a question of what can we accept when analyzing anomalies and what not, because some people will totally freak out if they see a couple of latency spikes in a chart. Realistically you'll be hard-pressed to notice it, heck one big massive scary spike in a chart could even something as simple as a game scene change.

Again I like to make the following statement strong, stutters always have been part of graphics cards. So I do plea... how important is it really? How much are you bothered by something you probably hardly even notice? I mean if you play a game and every now and then you see a small glitch, a stutter for a fraction of a second... does that ruin your game experience? We think not, and as such the stutter/glitches issues are a bit blown out of proportion with everybody jumping onto it. For multi-GPU gaming it is different though, if you pay attention to micro-stuttering, you can see it. But the question again remains the same, how many of you are actually bothered by it. Sure, if you raise enough awareness then people will revolt and address the issue continuously. But we do like to ask you to look at things in perspective.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/fcat_benchmarking_review,9.html

When this is fixed in two months, I bet all the dust kicked up will settle.
 
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When this is fixed in two months, I bet all the dust kicked up will settle.

I hope so.
The issue does seem fixable in drivers in two months.
There are lots of inconsistencies though, if you ask me.
Many reviews are trying to lessen the blow for the sake of the healthy market (and I support that) saying that frame rate spikes are common with multi gpu solutions.
Problem is we only have nvidia as competitor and since SLI is working fine we can't say anymore micro stuttering is common issue with multi gpu setup.
 
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Benchmark Scores Faster than yours... I'd bet on it. :)
Many reviews are trying to lessen the blow for the sake of the healthy market (and I support that) saying that frame rate spikes are common with multi gpu solutions.
Lessen the blow? Its the truth. I still think this whole thing is blown out of proportion and have been saying that since prior to that Guru3D article even..:rockout:

I think the inverse in that some sites are making a mountain out of a molehill on this one.
 
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I still think this whole thing is blown out of proportion

So you do. I also see that you run both SLI and Crossfire on your setups. Basically what you are saying is that you don't see difference in your experience. In that case you should contact AMD immediately, your hardware configuration may be the clue for them how to fix it.
 
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Benchmark Scores Faster than yours... I'd bet on it. :)
LOL... No. I just used it and read enough to know some are making more out of this than there really is. I have used 7770/7870/7950, and 7970 CFX solutions and in the titles I play (BF3, Dirt 3, Batman:AC, AvP, Civ V, Metro2033), I don't notice any micorstuttering. Perhaps I'm just not sensitive enough? I dont know. I also currently have a 690, and ran 680's in SLI as well and currently have a pair of 650 Ti Boosts on the test bench. So yes, I have seen both sides of the fence with the same games in fact.

I think what you are not understanding is that not in every title, with every driver (especially the newest ones), in every set of games, will this problem occur to a NOTICEABLE extent. I have conceeded that AMDs frame time is worse, but like a tree falling in the forest, if there is nobody there to hear it (notice the frame time spikes/problems) does it make a noise (is it a problem)? Understand this problem not everyone can see. If it was everyone there would be A LOT more complaints across forums than you see now.
 

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The 7950 seems to be the best bang for your buck right now. I'd get a 7950 before I bought a 6970 if you can pick up a 7950 around the same price as the 6970. But the 6970 is still a solid card and would be a great upgrade to a 4870x2. :toast:
 
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Hi daughters PC is coming down tomorrow and I will put the new AM3 mobo and the 8gb DDR3 ram in but she cannot afford to upgrade her win 7 32bit Ultimate will that still be okay to run.
 
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Benchmark Scores Faster than yours... I'd bet on it. :)
It will be ok, but what is the point considering a 32bit OS can only allocate 4GB. You wont be able to see/utilize the other 4GB...
 
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EDIT: i was going to suggest to buy new mobo and ram.

Really, i'm using a A8 3870K on resolution like your daughter use., and it's not that bad for me.

to get it to med/high setting, you'll just need a 7850 1 GB i think if it's the limit of ur budget.if not, 7870 is even better.
Don't really mind your CPU bottleneck. it's just 5 FPS differents at most on most occasion, and isn't worth hundreds of poundsterlings, tho it'll give you a better upgrade path for next 5 year.

I've seen people who play games and so sensitive to smoothness. some of them even use athlon II x4, with decent GPU of course, and never have i see them complain.

i myself used a deneb @3.6 daily, and it was great for gpu bound gaming.

and that 4GB ddr3 is already OK if it's for non-3Drender/for gaming only.
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It was 4gb DDR2 she was using so I suppose I could just put in the 4gb DDR3 1333mhz it would be an improvement.
 
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That was an AM2 I will be putting in my last mobo which was an AM3 and that supports DDR3.
 

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Anybody recommended the new 650ti? Or does it HAVE to be amd?
 
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Yes I think so but she would prefer an AMD.
 
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Would it be it be a good move getting one for myself rather than going for a 7970

Why don't you just give her your 6970 and buy yourself a 7970? Nothing is wasted and problem is solved.
 
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Why don't you just give her your 6970 and buy yourself a 7970? Nothing is wasted and problem is solved.
the title is budget upgrade. :)
well 7970 is a bit cheaper now.but still it's not a budget card.

and it is indeed improvement from ddr2 to ddr3, tho you may won't notice it.
650ti is indeed great. but 7870 or even 7850 is enough for her display reso.
 
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I had thought on getting a 7970 for myself but it's a bit to expensive plus my 6970 is enough for me.
 
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my daughter is running Win 7 ultimate 32bit, I have Win 7 premium 64bit can I buy another serial so I can install it on her new system when I put it together if so where can I get it.
 
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I had thought on getting a 7970 for myself but it's a bit to expensive plus my 6970 is enough for me.

Like I said, The best bang for your buck is actually getting an upgrade for yourself and give her your 6970. You are buying 1 card but upgrading 2 systems. A 7950 is much cheaper and can easily perform the same as the 7970. The extra shaders made little to no difference in performance.

Or if your budget is a fixed amount rather than amount per system then you should just get her a 7850 1 GB. It will play any game on high except metro and crysis 3. If you look at the reviews, by the time the card needs more than 1 GB, it is already unplayable. The gpu will bottleneck before the memory in almost all cases. If you plan to go above 1080p or duels/triples then get the 2GB.
 
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