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300 bonus at work, spec me a card.

shawsy109

shawsy109

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So, as the title says got a bonus at work and finally thought id bite the bullet and get an upgrade.

Problem is, i have 6950 xfire and happily report i have had no problems at all. But now the only games i play are, World of tanks and BF3, in bf3 the xfire is great, but in WoT its terribad as WoT does not support Dual cards, but when i turn xfire off WoT runs ok, but even on high settings i get massive dips in FPS and with the arrival of the 670/660 ive been thinking of getting one.

Do you think its worth it and upgrade or just stick with the 6950s?
 
Difficult one. 6950 is a very decent set-up still and has plenty of life left in it. That said, resale value will decrease the longer you leave an upgrade.

Performance wise, any single card will be probably be a downgrade. How important is it to have one fast card?

You could upgrade to 7950 crossfire if you sell your 6950's and be well in budget.

Otherwise you're looking at single 7950/670 really. I wouldn't bother with the 660Ti at the current price point.

Regarding the 7950 vs 670 they are close while both are overclocked with the 670 being slightly faster depending on the level of overclock you achieve (although this is of course luck dependent for both).

If you sell your cards and go 7950 crossfire this will:

a) give you plenty of single GPU grunt
b) give you excellent crossfire performance
c) offer you decent levels of overclocking ability if you're interested in that

Decent custom 7950's can be picked up around the £250 mark so with selling it's doable.
 
That ^^^^ unless you really do want to upgrade, then i'm with Rusty.
 
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Rusty0611 said:
Difficult one. 6950 is a very decent set-up still and has plenty of life left in it. That said, resale value will decrease the longer you leave an upgrade.

Performance wise, any single card will be probably be a downgrade. How important is it to have one fast card?

You could upgrade to 7950 crossfire if you sell your 6950's and be well in budget.

Otherwise you're looking at single 7950/670 really. I wouldn't bother with the 660Ti at the current price point.

Regarding the 7950 vs 670 they are close while both are overclocked with the 670 being slightly faster depending on the level of overclock you achieve (although this is of course luck dependent for both).

If you sell your cards and go 7950 crossfire this will:

a) give you plenty of single GPU grunt
b) give you excellent crossfire performance
c) offer you decent levels of overclocking ability if you're interested in that

Decent custom 7950's can be picked up around the £250 mark so with selling it's doable.
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Pretty much what i was thinking Rusty, but as the others have said, i also dont think its worth it as the 6950's have plenty of grunt for bf3, it just kills me when im at 20 fps in WoT sometimes. WoT not supporting xfire/sli is a real pain.
 
Yeah it is a large outlay for one game. How much does it mean to you? Are the performance issue driver related perhaps?

Do bear in mind though regarding the resale value. I would also stay as you are (as per the first line of my response) but I know what the upgrade itch is like when you've got some disposable cash hence me blowing well north of £1000 on a new motherboard, new CPU, another 680 and 2 more BenQ XL2420T's in one go :D.
 
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I have an SSD and not sure what that adds to fps in game.....

@Rusty not sure about drivers, World of tanks doesn't support SLI/XFIRE so its a none starter right off the bat. I just want a single card that WoT will run well on, as seemingly a 6950 has problems with WoT on high settings.
 
andybird123 said:
in what way will an SSD help his minimum frame rates in Word of Tanks?
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It won't but as others have said the 6950's have plenty of life left in them, so if OP really wants an upgrade of some kind an SSD could be another option. Just a suggestion :p

*edit* sorry didn't know you had one already, NVM :p
 
Will be a downgrade in BF3 CAT-THE-FIFTH.

The only way to get the best of both worlds is to go 7950 crossfire I think :(.

As I said, well in budget if you sell the 6950's on the MM or elsewhere.
 
shawsy109 said:
Problem is, i have 6950 xfire and happily report i have had no problems at all. But now the only games i play are, World of tanks and BF3, in bf3 the xfire is great, but in WoT its terribad as WoT does not support Dual cards, but when i turn xfire off WoT runs ok, but even on high settings i get massive dips in FPS and with the arrival of the 670/660 ive been thinking of getting one.

Do you think its worth it and upgrade or just stick with the 6950s?
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There's not much you can do for World of Tanks. The game is CPU limited with it basically running in 1 thread (1 cores)...it is not your current graphic cards being the limiting factor.

The only thing you can to get more fps for WoT is may be overclock the i5 2500K further.
 
Rusty0611 said:
Will be a downgrade in BF3 CAT-THE-FIFTH.

The only way to get the best of both worlds is to go 7950 crossfire I think :(.

As I said, well in budget if you sell the 6950's on the MM or elsewhere.
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I looked at the price of the 7950's. I do like them also, but not sure about the expenditure. I'll have to thibk about it as the 6950s are in great condition with acceleros fitted to boot. and they eat BF3 alive
 
Stick with them to the next gen and replace them with a single card, or sell them both and buy a 7950/7970 or 670.
 
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