Should I pick up another 7950 off of ebay?

[upshawharley]

So I recently picked up a 7950 off of ebay for about $60 and have been blown away by the performance I got for such a low price! Would it be worthwhile picking up another one if I find one for a similar price? Normally I wouldn't consider it but my brother recently built a new pc and I swiped his old evga 750w so I believe my system can handle the power draw.

Specs
AMD 8320
970 extreme 3 (might swipe my bros asus 970 because its 6-phase and has pcie 2.0 @8x both slots...only reason I haven't yet is because im too lazy to reinstall windows)
16gb of ram
1 sapphire 7950
2 hard drives
way too many fans
wifi card
900p crap monitor @75hertz

I should mention my motherboard only supports pcie 2.0 @4x on the second slot when using dual gpus..

 

[delaro]

At that Resolution I don't think your going to see any improvements. A 7950 is around the same level as a 960 GTX or 1050TI and you can normally flash to bios and unlock them to a 7970, your just missing DX 12 support.

 

[upshawharley]

your just missing DX 12 support.

That's weird, I ran hitman with dx12 and it ran about the same performance. I believe you, just I would expect worse performance if it wasn't supported. Also, I want to eventually get a higher resolution monitor, most likely 4k when the price comes down.

Also, how would I go about flashing the bios?

 

[Chugalug_]

Don't bother crossfiring, scaling is poor, support for newer APIs etc. isn't there and value for money in terms of performance will be terrible.
Save up for your next GPU/CPU upgrade.

 

[delaro]

your just missing DX 12 support.

That's weird, I ran hitman with dx12 and it ran about the same performance. I believe you, just I would expect worse performance if it wasn't supported. Also, I want to eventually get a higher resolution monitor, most likely 4k when the price comes down.

Also, how would I go about flashing the bios?

http://www.overclock.net/t/1353325/tutorial-atiwinflash-how-to-flash-the-bios-of-your-ati-cards
And the bios is here
https://www.sapphiretech.com/download.asp?lang=eng

You have a dual bios so if you screw it up you can just swap to the secondary and still use the card.