Personal price performance question

[amigoss]

Hello everyone,

Would say personal because in my region and situation price range differs between these two from the general information gathered on the internet.

I am debating between Sapphire ATI Radeon 7970 3GB with the reference normal cooler and Gigabyte R795WF3-3GD which is with better cooler lower price, 3 year warranty and higher clocks than normal stock 7950.

The Sapphire 7970 is with 75 Euro more expensive than the R795WF3-3G.
My question is which of these is better value for price/performance in my case?

Also don't forget that Sapphire comes with 2 years warranty.
I found this choice pretty difficult so I decided to turn over here for advice.
Thanks for your time!

 

[amigoss]

Anyone with any suggestion, please?

 

[exar333]

What games/resolutions/monitors do you play on? The 7950 may be plenty enough, and the 7970 might not be worth the extra 75 euro difference.

More details would help. Post system specs and needs.

 

[amigoss]

Current system is the following:

AMD Phenom II 945 running at 3,5Ghz
Sapphire ATI 5850 running at stock
OS on 120gb intel ssd 520
8GB RAM @ 1600mhz
PSU Seasoning 620W GB
The monitor is with optimal resolution of 1920x1080 as my TV as well. I rarely tend to stream Blu-ray and play game at the same time.

I am looking after playing Tera, SC2 and hopefully Diablo 3 when it comes out. Primary focused on the mmo and rpg ganre. Other than that I play most popular FPS games such as BF3 COD and so on.

I know you are going to ask yourself about my CPU but I was after total upgrade of the PC but wasn't so pleased what 3930k offers for gaming against 2600k and with the upcoming Ivy Bridge I decided to wait and instead to upgrade the video which will boost my system quite a lot no matter that I don't have appropriate CPU.

 

[superjim]

I assume that's a Seasonic power supply? A 7950 is plenty for one-monitor 1080p gaming for even the most demanding games. You might see high 40s/low 50s fps in BF3 multi-player with all eye-candy on but that's about it. That's at stock settings too and I would highly recommend overclocking the 7950 at least 100mhz on the core and memory. Most 7950s can run 1000mhz core on stock voltage (link).

BF3 Bench
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1862/5/

 

[exar333]

Go 7950 and OC it as much as possible.

 

[amigoss]

Thanks guys, appreciated!

 

[Stuka87]

Yeah, a 7970 is overkill for your CPU. Even with the 7950 you will be CPU limited. I am CPU limited with my Phenom II running at 4.1GHz.