6970 + ???

[Ovr]

Hi guys,

I bought an MSI 6970 about two months ago with the aim of putting another one in XFire just before Rage came out - now it seems that they are either as rare as the proverbial rocking horse drops, or seriously overpriced compared to what I paid (£249.99 iirc from the lovely ginger chap at OcUK who was fantastically helpful might I add!)

I've just noticed that the price of 6950's is pretty good - would adding one of these cards make the 6970 purchase a bit pointless? I suppose I could try selling the 6970 on ebay and some miners may grab it but is it worth it? If I clocked up the 6950 (and got the 2gb model) would I still get most of my 6970s worth out of the setup?

Thanks for any info in advance!

 

[Ovr]

Didn't realise that the 6970 would be working at full speed - thought it throttled back to a 6950?! Interesting!!

I can't believe the current price of the 6970s, a 6950 would be great! Need a bigger PSU though, pretty sure my corsair 750W will be struggling!

 

[Ovr]

OCUK have 6970s

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-254-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752

That's not a 6970, it's a hole to chuck your money into. Not OCUK's fault, the price of 6970s is absolutely ridiculous everywhere.

2gb model for sure.

Tempting!

 

[Ovr]

Sold

 

[Ovr]

I don't really get the bitcoin mining seeing as it has now got to the point where the encryption is so difficult to break the time to mine a single "bit" is ludicrous vs the cash return.

It will fail, and I hope it does - not being bitter but I looked into it quite a lot and it's so flawed.