6950 replacement advice

[Rangler]

Hi All,

my 6950 is slowly dying, keeps hard crashing to vertical lines during a game
So looks like i need a replacement and im out of touch.

Currently i have a Q9650 OC'd to 4.4Ghz with a crossfire motherboard and 800W quality Corsair PSU.

Can anyone advise what would be the equivalent AMD card today please.?
Also what would be an equivalent crossfire setup?, as i may get one card now and one next month.

TIA for any advice.

 

[arc@css]

Your cpu will definitely hold back two cards.

An equivalent card today in terms of hierarchy would be the R9 290.

An equivalent card today in terms of performance would be something like a 7850 or R7 265. A 7870 or R9 270 would be a little faster.

 

[Doogles]

R9 280x is mainly a overclocked HD 7970 so that would be the equivalent card today, price is about £200 new for one of those or £200 for a used R9 290 with reference cooler.

I wouldn't crossfire, I personally had a xfire HD 7850 2GB setup and awhile it wasn't that far away from my R9 290 when they were overclocked and 100% scaling they had to many problems with too many games to be viable.

 

[Rangler]

Your cpu will definitely hold back two cards.

An equivalent card today in terms of hierarchy would be the R9 290.

An equivalent card today in terms of performance would be something like a 7850 or R7 265. A 7870 or R9 270 would be a little faster.

Interesting so would you re4con my cpu is currently holding back my existing 6950.?
If i drop the volts marginally and the memory clock the gpu is stable so maybe i could replace the cpu/mobo/ram instead then?

 

[JamesM]

Interesting so would you re4con my cpu is currently holding back my existing 6950.?
If i drop the volts marginally and the memory clock the gpu is stable so maybe i could replace the cpu/mobo/ram instead then?

No, dual cards require more CPU power.

You should be on with a 280x or a 290

 

[arc@css]

Interesting so would you re4con my cpu is currently holding back my existing 6950.?
If i drop the volts marginally and the memory clock the gpu is stable so maybe i could replace the cpu/mobo/ram instead then?

No, but it will certainly restrict the performance of two newer cards, e.g. 2 x 280X cards (probably even one a little bit tbh - though I wouldn't be too concerned about that).