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[Aidan]

I have recently upgraded my GPU to a PowerColor Radeon R9 295x2. This is replacing my PowerColor Radeon HD 6990 LCS. The 6990 is the PowerColor water cooled version. See the link below for the HD6990 specifications.

http://www.powercolo...ures.asp?id=350

Please PM me if you are interested in purchasing this card at a substantial discount from the intial $1000 purchase price. This card is in very good condition.

Alert: You must be able to supply a water cooling system to use this card.

[Catamount]

It would have to be a very substantial discount.

The 6990 is not significantly more powerful than the 7970. It's ~56% more powerful than a 6970 according to the sum of game testing here. If you want to blame that on poor scaling and assume that whoever buys this will stick to good scaling, you can go by the 3DMark result of 87% faster in that same review. The 7970, for reference, commands a 60% advantage over the 6970 at that same resolution, but at much lower power consumption and it doesn't rely on good Xfire scaling (for reference, MWO will not use both 6990 GPUs, so it's going to run like one 6970). Used 7970s are available on Ebay for $140-$150. So if you play only good-scaling games for multi-GPU, the 6990 would be worth, at absolute bend-over-backwards most, maybe $200, significantly less if you plan to play MWO somewhat heavily.

Negotiate price accordingly.

Edited by Catamount, 14 June 2015 - 07:45 AM.

[Lord Letto]

Looking Here: http://www.tomshardw...iew,3107-7.html
It's on Par to the R9 280X ($193+ New), HD 7970GHz Edition ($370 New) & The GTX 770 ($290+)
https://pcpartpicker...=0&X=100,498900

[Catamount]

Like I said

[Aidan]

"(for reference, MWO will not use both 6990 GPUs, so it's going to run like one 6970). "

I disagree with this comment. Using the AMD System Monitor app, I have verified both GPUs on the HD6990 are being used while playing MWO.

This AMD app can be found here:

http://support.amd.c...temMonitor.aspx

[Surn]

MWO on fullscreen mode use crossfire. I run dual r9 290s and have confirmed the gpu scaling.

[Catamount]

Huh, so they snuck in actual xfire support did they? Well that does help, a lot. I still wouldn't pay more than the going 7970/280x price, not eagerly, but it's definitely a solid MWO GPU choice

[Bill Lumbar]

Depending on the price....this might be tempting for my rig. I have the water cooling system to handle this puppy for sure.

[Aidan]

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Depending on the price....this might be tempting for my rig. I have the water cooling system to handle this puppy for sure.te]

PM me an offer.