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[Govedo13]

7870XT preforms 10% worse then the 760. It is nerfed 7950. The 7950 preforms 5% worse then 760.
However the ATI cards overclock better so you can get the 760 performance with 7870XT and you can beat it with overclocking 7950.


About the Overclocking you need to understand how the PC market works.
They make 1 new product each year, in order to boost sales they just make weaker versions of it, some with cut functionalities or cheaper/less ram in the case of the VGAs others with just reduced voltage and frequency or with locked functions in the case of the CPUs.
In your case Haswell is one single engineered chip made different in order to cover the market better.
So overclocking allows you to get more performance per dollar. It is funny how Intel charge you extra for it with the software made lock on all non K CPUs.
Also I am sure you can find some Windows 7 from a friend of yours or somewhere else instead of buying it- if you need help drop me PM.

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Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)