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50-60 is a third more money it's certainly not a third faster so at the end of the day it's how much speed you need?.But wait it's only 2 days to go come on hold on!!!!
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PowerColor 6970 pictured and benched
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50-60 is a third more money it's certainly not a third faster so at the end of the day it's how much speed you need?.But wait it's only 2 days to go come on hold on!!!!
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You'd be crazy to buy any card until Wednesday to see how the 69xx series do.
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The HD6970 PCB looks quite clean:
http://www.techpowerup.com/136313/AMD-Cayman-Taken-Apart-PCB-Pictured.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/136313/AMD-Cayman-Taken-Apart-PCB-Pictured.html
Suprisingly clean, barely any bulky capacitors at all.
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That will BE a watercoolers dream... well the guys who make the blocks anyway 
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Vaper chamber cooler even on the 6950 it seems.
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This might have been shown but what the heck
Worst pyramid ever!
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Vaper chamber cooler even on the 6950 it seems.
Dagnamit, since the 4890 AMD have been bending over the top of the fins in the heatsink before that, the 4870x2 being the best example, you could take the shroud off, stick any old proper fan over it and get massively improved cooling, but with the fins bent over the only way you can get air through it is a blower
I loved my £5 zalman 120mm fans and 7p of ziptie cooling mods to all my previous gpu's.
Do any come with freebies in the box; a game or 3dmark 11?
One of them comes with Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam.
But OCUK might not sell that one!
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That looks like a nice cooler on the 6950, but I am a little suprised by the length of this card considering the ammount of free space on the pcb. They could easily have made this an inch or more shorter, and prevented issues for many people with midi cases.
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Gamer appears on a different line for me viewing it
Me too.
As you can see in the image above, unlike in their previous attempts at Vapor Chamber cooling with modest sized vapor chambers like in ATI Radeon HD 4870X2, the approach with Radeon HD 6900 Series is more akin to Sapphire's pioneering 3870 Vapor-X, or recently the GeForce GTX 500 Series.
This massive Vapor Chamber cooling is the reason why AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series is achieving remarkable overclocking results, just like the GeForce GTX 580 and 570. We've seen GTX 580 working at 895MHz, GTX 570 at 880MHz as well as viewed results of Radeon HD 6970 clocked at 980MHz, and 6950 at 1010MHz. We've spoken with numerous board manufacturers and they're all telling us that this generation of graphics cards is "vintage", with overclocking headroom spanning much beyond the last generation.
Who'd knew, perhaps TSMC is finally maturing their 40nm process.
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...a-large-vapor-chamber-cooling-to-hd-6900.aspx
HD6950 looks like a very good oc'er
This massive Vapor Chamber cooling is the reason why AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series is achieving remarkable overclocking results, just like the GeForce GTX 580 and 570. We've seen GTX 580 working at 895MHz, GTX 570 at 880MHz as well as viewed results of Radeon HD 6970 clocked at 980MHz, and 6950 at 1010MHz. We've spoken with numerous board manufacturers and they're all telling us that this generation of graphics cards is "vintage", with overclocking headroom spanning much beyond the last generation.
Who'd knew, perhaps TSMC is finally maturing their 40nm process.
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...a-large-vapor-chamber-cooling-to-hd-6900.aspx
HD6950 looks like a very good oc'er
even at 100% still same
Just as the HD5850 was, it appears. The price difference is also large, nothing close to what I expected. Might be my upgrade in the next few days 
gareth, your sig breaks the rules, "Gamer" text goes to the third line, five lines in total.
gareth, your sig breaks the rules, "Gamer" text goes to the third line, five lines in total.
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Not for everyone else.
We're not just saying this to be awkward - you'll have your sig removed by a mod soon enough. If it's a repeat offence you'll be given a holiday from the forums. We're actually trying to help you.