Quote again (for those who is not smart enough to understand what is lag spikes / stuttering):
Yet again for the moronic cheap seats, the 6950 1gb firstly, wasn't available at launch, and secondly offers such a minimal saving....... YOU WOULD NOT BUY IT. In fact I don't think i've ever seen anyone with one, or who thinks they are good, or who has recommended one. £5 more for the 2gb version, who would buy the other one.
Likewise, who would need to run at 8xmsaa? no one, in anything but zoomed in views of small area's you'd find it almost impossible to see the difference between 4 and 8x, in some games the difference between 2x/8x is minor at best.
But anywhere, we're back to a situation where in ONE game, if you buy a stupid card no one on earth with a brain would buy.......... then you can FORCE situations in beyond high settings you do not require, to use more memory than you have.
Again, this isn't new, you were NOT the first and NOT the only person to say this, everyone knows this, your crusade is that the average user will see the difference all the time at this res. YOu make one argument but you CAN NOT PROVE IT. You find one game, with ridiculous settings, and a comparison between a card no one buys and a card everyone has.
For the same price of a 560ti 2gb, you could SAVE £30 and have a 2gb 6950, for £150 you can get a 1gb 560ti. If you do not have more than £170, you are not buying a 2gb card, if you have £180 or more you are not buying a 1gb card. Your argument is completely worthless.
Its also worth pointing out that Dragon age 2 runs much worse on Nvidia cards, and as such 8xmsaa would probably be unplayable on both a 2gb AND a 1gb 560ti, yet again ruling it as a game where MEMORY WILL NOT EFFECT YOU, unless you are the one in a million who bought a ridiculous 6950 1GB card.