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Almost £200 is a lot of money for a relatively small jump in performance, You'd be better off buying another HD6950 for CF or waiting for 7xxx or 6xx.
 
Zinth said:
Yeah might have too. How hard is CF these days ???. Do the cards have to be the exact same brand ect ect.
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Nope, doesn't have to be the same brand, any other 6950 will be fine. Its as easy as installing the card in the motherboard, plugging in the power and installing the crossfire bridge.
 
Just read around abit. Will my cpu bottleneck CF 6950's ??. I've read if i was running intel i would get around 80% performance increase vs 40% on amd =/
 
Zinth said:
Will my cpu bottleneck CF 6950's ?
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Bottlenecking is dependent on the game, spending £200 on another 6950 will give you a significant increase in fps, spending another several hundred pounds to upgrade to i5/P67(orZ68) would make BF3 sweet, but only if you can recoup some of that outlay by selling that AMD+MB.
 
Zinth said:
Just read around abit. Will my cpu bottleneck CF 6950's ??. I've read if i was running intel i would get around 80% performance increase vs 40% on amd =/
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Not especially. You will get better performance with the sight intel chip, but nowhere near as dramatically as that 80 vs 40 guess suggests.
Phenoms have always been good performers in games, and come closer to matching intel chips in that area than any other software category.
 
I could probably push my cpu abit more. But just havent seen the need for it yet. I think i will try CF with my setup, see how it goes. Hopefully upgrading my phenom to an FX chip when they're realeased :P. When being the keyword lol
 
It seems that you should get better performance with the 2GB version IF you are running at such a high resolution that 1GB isn't enough any more. Like Eyefinity, for instance.

I am not aware of any benchmarks that test the 1gb cards in that scenario. Benchmarks that test the 1GB and 2GB cards against each other at more normal resolitions (like 1920x1200 or less) show no real difference. In fact one set showed a slight edge in favour of the 1GB cards, but the 1GB cards had been tested with much newer drivers than the 2GB cards, so they were probably both on par.

At the current price difference, it's a tough sell to go for the 2GB cards unless you know you need them. If you know you wont be playing higher than 1920x1200, and also expect to change your cards in a year or so, the 1GB will be perfectly fine. Otherwise, the 2GB cards may be worth the extra cost.
 
Yeah probably gunna crossfire with 2 2gb 6950's. Atleast then i have the option to flash them both to 6970's. At the moment im only playing 1080p monitor. But i will be upgrading when monitor prices come down :P
 
See my sig for my specs. I get about 35-50 FPS on high (not ultra, I read that setting is bust?) settings in BF3 Beta. My GTX260s are letting my new i5 down, but it's pointless upgrading now.

Wish the bloody GTX6xx would hurry the **** up! :D

Slight hijack, but I'm just reading the post above regarding 1GB GDDR vs 2GB. Am I right in saying that even though I have two cards in SLI, the RAM doesn't add up? If I have 2 cards each with 896MB GDDR, I still only have 896GDDR total available?
 
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Just out of curiousity. are HIS any good ? they always seem to be the cheapest graphics cards. are they reliable n stuff ?
 
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