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Couple of graphics card questions

steve45

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Right couple of questions.

Budget Card:
i need a card for my mothers PC, it was my old system and has an 8800gtx however, the Card decided to pack in a short while ago, now my mother does like her games, the 8800gtx was able to play the games she used comfortably.
for this i would like to spend no more than £100
XFX ATI Radeon HD 6770 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
bearing in mind the system its going into is a C2D(e6600 i think???) with 2gb RAM so its nothing special, would this card be a reasonable buy or overkill?
i want my mother to be able to play the games she usually does but i dont want to waste money on a card that the system wont be able to make full use of if you know what i mean.
i'm not too fussed wether its ATI or Nvidia just as long as its under £100


Going XFire:
i have recently just bought a new system, and have been thinking of Xfiring the system, and i have decided to go ahead with it whilst i have the money.
however i have never dabbled with multiple GPU's before and have no knowledge of how it works.
I have a single Sapphire HD 6950 2048mb card with what i assume is the single fan Reference cooler.
what i would like to know is if the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6950 "Dual Fan Edition" 2048MB would run XFire with my original card fine?
i would have just bought the same card as i have, purely for piece of mind that it would work together, however for some bizzare reason its more expensive than the Dual Fan edition:confused:
from what i can see the spec is the same apart from the cooler which i believe shouldnt make any difference but i just want to make sure before i press the button.
will the be any confliction with the 2 cards or will it run fine?

hopefully planning to make these purchases as soon as i have answers to these questions.
 
steve45 said:
Right couple of questions.

Budget Card:
i need a card for my mothers PC, it was my old system and has an 8800gtx however, the Card decided to pack in a short while ago, now my mother does like her games, the 8800gtx was able to play the games she used comfortably.
for this i would like to spend no more than £100
XFX ATI Radeon HD 6770 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
bearing in mind the system its going into is a C2D(e6600 i think???) with 2gb RAM so its nothing special, would this card be a reasonable buy or overkill?
i want my mother to be able to play the games she usually does but i dont want to waste money on a card that the system wont be able to make full use of if you know what i mean.
i'm not too fussed wether its ATI or Nvidia just as long as its under £100

That card would be fine, however, I would buy THIS as she already had an nvidia card and it is easier with drivers. THIS card would also be pretty good

Going XFire:
i have recently just bought a new system, and have been thinking of Xfiring the system, and i have decided to go ahead with it whilst i have the money.
however i have never dabbled with multiple GPU's before and have no knowledge of how it works.
I have a single Sapphire HD 6950 2048mb card with what i assume is the single fan Reference cooler.
what i would like to know is if the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6950 "Dual Fan Edition" 2048MB would run XFire with my original card fine?
i would have just bought the same card as i have, purely for piece of mind that it would work together, however for some bizzare reason its more expensive than the Dual Fan edition:confused:
from what i can see the spec is the same apart from the cooler which i believe shouldnt make any difference but i just want to make sure before i press the button.
will the be any confliction with the 2 cards or will it run fine?

hopefully planning to make these purchases as soon as i have answers to these questions.
 They will work together as long as they are the same GPU and VRAM size. The dual fan is a good bet. you may also want to consider the MSI twin frozr card for £230 but it would underclock to match your reference 6950's speeds
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Ok, let me revise my first post then. The MSI twin frozr would be my choice as it has a great cooler and great CS. Also, you can OC your reference 6950 and have a nice set of OC'd cards :)
 
would a 430 with only 96 processing core actually be any faster than the previous 8800gtx i don't think it would.
 
Not pressed the buy button yet, however the idea wasnt to get a better card, it would be nice, but one comparable in performance would be sufficient as i have no intention of upgrading any other components on her pc for the time being so i dont want to waste money on a card that will be bottlenecked by the rest of the system.
 
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