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Are you upgrading next generation?

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Just curious which fellow OCNers are planning to upgrade to the GTX780 or whatever the high end single card is for Nvidia or the 8970 from AMD and why. For me personally I'm going to consider it if single card performance is +~30% or more, I personally don't think we'll see that kind of jump but who knows since we don't know anything about the future cards (at least I don't). If they aren't more than 30% or near as much I'll just stick with my current setup barring a game doesn't come out that needs more GPU power.
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I'd upgrade for the e-peen smile.gif I alternate between red and green each generation.
Although we will both be fine with our set ups for a while I think tongue.gif
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post #3 of 4
nope. I plan to add my third 670 by then. I will upgrade my cpu when IB-E comes out but not my gpu and by the time the 9x series comes out it will be time to build again
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Normally I would but my flashed ghz 7970 with overcloked is maxing all games in eyefinity except bf3 and I can play it on high and ultra mix. There are no games coming out for along time that with stress gpus so I am disappointed. Going to have to wait for the new consoles to come out and change the game.
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