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curse for more details Welcome to our

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video review of the 7790 now it took us a little while to

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get our hands on this card so we weren't able to get one until MSI got us a 7790

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OC now bear in mind that whether it's Ed

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or not Ed or 90210 or whatever else it

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happens to be uh we overclock every card we get our hands on anyway and we keep

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them all within sort of a reasonable overclocking expectation like you could

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probably get something close to those settings if you follow the usual

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procedure for overclocking and so yeah we don't really sort of worry too much

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about any of that so let's start with

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our overall test platform we've got a 3930k which is overclocked to 4 GHz

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we've got a p9x 79 Deluxe motherboard 16 gigs of Kingston hypx memory a corser

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h100 liquid cooler to handle that overclocked six core an ntech hcp 1000 W

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power supply it's 80 plus Platinum a 128 gig Vertex 4 SSD and last but not least

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the graphics cards which vary so the one that we have left on here right now I

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believe is our 7870 Hawk yes that is indeed the card we

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have so we are going to be using our usual methodologies for all the games

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you see and we're going to put annotations uh next to them as each game

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comes up to let you guys know how you can replicate our results so you can

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take your own hardware and see if you can produce the same sort of um

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Benchmark run which you should be able to and you can compare your own Hardware

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to what you're using so without any further Ado we're going to launch into

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our first game so BioShock Infinite um

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is a very new very exciting title and it looks like the 7790 performed about 10

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12% worse than the GTX 650 TI boost now

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both of these cars launched at almost the same time the 650 TI boost came in

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right after the 7790 had had a great launch and was very disruptive because

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it wasn't much more expensive it had 2 gigs of RAM whereas the stock 7790 had 1

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gig of RAM however you can get it in 2 gig

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configurations and it yeah it wasn't that much more expensive so the 7790 is

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kind of like an amped up 7770 or a uh 77

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or a 7850 that's been been crippled a little bit and you can see it falls

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right exactly in between those two cards and uh I mean a little bit under the 650

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TI boost so everything performs pretty much exactly where it should we ran all

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of our tests at 1080p as per our usual procedure especially for cards like this

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that are intended to be run at 1080p so for Far Cry 3 we found that the 7790

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performed pretty much right in line with the GTX 650 TI boost this makes sense I

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mean this I consider a win for the 7790 because it's only a 1 gig card and

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because it did manage to perform the same and you can see that we've taken

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cards the next card's up and the next card's down from both the green and the

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red team so you can see how those compare the 7770 still does quite well

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only performing about 20% lower than the 7790 and the 650 really didn't put in

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put up a very good fight at all in this one for Metro 2033 you see the 7770

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looks really good the 7790 looks a little bit better than that and the 650

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TI boost looks a little bit better than that which is pretty much exactly where

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we'd expect them to fall however we can still kind of call this a win for the 77

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90 because the 650 TI boost it doesn't perform better enough to justify its

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additional cost with that said the 650 TI boost only really gets the benefit

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from that extra memory which does cost more to manufacture when you actually

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require it so when the textures of the game fill up 1 gig vram and can overflow

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it to the point where it'll that card's performance in Witcher two we saw

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what may be an example of that where the 7790 really didn't perform that much

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better than a 7770 only about 10%

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whereas the 650 TI boost pulled out significantly away from both of them by

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about 15% but again hard to say how much of that is the actual power of the GPU

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and how much is the additional vram the 650 really trailed in this one and the

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7770 put up a pretty good fight finally

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our last game is Crisis 3 but can it run crisis and the answer is yes it sits

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pretty much exactly where it belongs within the product stack in this one and

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there are no surprises there so what

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what does all this mean well um

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depending on your budget if you want to spend uh $150 plus or minus get a 7790

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if you wanted to spend a little bit more than that maybe about 175 bucks you can

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get a 650 TI boost both of them are an excellent value and if you wanted to

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spend even less than that the 7770 continues to be our lightweight champion

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at only around 120 bucks and giving you most of the performance of the next tier

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up of cards and much better than what the green team has to put forward at

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that price point which was the gtx650 at

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$115 now we take all of our pricing as the second lowest price on nc.com to

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give you guys some idea so if you kind of go oh well the retailer near me has

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these prices I'll go okay yes they do that's fine but that's not our

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methodology for taking pricing and comparing these cards so in conclusion

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the 7790 offers up not much in terms of surprises it does support ifinity it

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does uh have excellent power efficiency as well as quiet operation and you get

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what you pay for thanks for checking out this video online as Tech tips and as

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