Hi,
I've recently RMA'd my MSI 7950 due to a common fan speed problem, caused by a leaky diode. The fans would run at full speed when not needed to.
I now have a dilemma; do I plump for an identical card, go for a different brand of 7950 or leap back to a comparable NVidia card?
I have a £300 budget, but don't need to spend it all
I originally spent £250 on the 7950 but also RMA'd some poor memory, so could stretch to a silghtly more expensive card.
Other hardware is i7-3770K on an MSI MPower motherboard, 8Gb G.Skill Ripjaws Z 2400 and a Corsair HX750 PSU.
I'm on a single monitor 1920 x 1080 and I use it for everything from gaming to 2D/3D design to Controls Engineering (mainly under VMWare).
I notice that some retailers are listing their MSI 7950 Twin Frozr as being "The new batch, without the fan controller problem". This tells me lots of the first batch have had problems. I could stretch to a 7970 now or possibly switch to a GTX670, though would most probably lose out on ram size (3Gb down to 2Gb).
Thanks for your help.
Anthony
I've recently RMA'd my MSI 7950 due to a common fan speed problem, caused by a leaky diode. The fans would run at full speed when not needed to.
I now have a dilemma; do I plump for an identical card, go for a different brand of 7950 or leap back to a comparable NVidia card?
I have a £300 budget, but don't need to spend it all

I originally spent £250 on the 7950 but also RMA'd some poor memory, so could stretch to a silghtly more expensive card.
Other hardware is i7-3770K on an MSI MPower motherboard, 8Gb G.Skill Ripjaws Z 2400 and a Corsair HX750 PSU.
I'm on a single monitor 1920 x 1080 and I use it for everything from gaming to 2D/3D design to Controls Engineering (mainly under VMWare).
I notice that some retailers are listing their MSI 7950 Twin Frozr as being "The new batch, without the fan controller problem". This tells me lots of the first batch have had problems. I could stretch to a 7970 now or possibly switch to a GTX670, though would most probably lose out on ram size (3Gb down to 2Gb).
Thanks for your help.
Anthony